Workshop on Building Electronic Functions into Molecular Architectures

该奖项是为了支持由美国国家科学基金会工程和数学和物理科学理事会主办的研讨会，将于2007年6月7日至8日在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿举行。 本次研讨会将汇集来自工业界、学术界和国家实验室的理论家、实验家和工程师，以评估分子电子学领域的最新发展水平，确定最佳前进道路，并描绘出这条道路上的挑战沿着。具体来说，研讨会将开始以一系列全体会议开始，然后是三个主要领域的分组会议：理论;分子测量;把它拉在一起：分子和自组装。 我们的目标是制作一个网络访问的报告，将详细介绍分子电子学领域目前的挑战和机遇，以及多学科方法可以实现的预期进展。 这次研讨会将有更广泛的影响，因为迄今为止在分子电子学领域取得的许多引人注目的成就都是单个研究人员在一个大型跨学科项目的一小部分上工作的结果。 该研讨会将使合成化学家，设备工程师，理论家以及工业和国家实验室的研究人员共同努力推进该领域。

This award is to support a workshop sponsored by the NSF Engineering and Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorates, to be held in Arlington, VA on June 7-8, 2007. This workshop will bring together theorists, experimentalists, and engineers from industry, academia and national laboratories to assess the state-of the-art in the field of molecular electronics, to identify the best path forward, and to delineate the challenges along that path. Specifically, the workshop will begin with a series of plenary talks followed by breakout sessions in three main areas: Theory; Molecular Measurements; and Pulling it Together: Molecules and Self-Assembly. The goal is to produce a web-accessible report that will detail the current challenges and opportunities in the field of molecular electronics, and the expected progress that a multidisciplinary approach can achieve. This workshop will have a broader impact in that many of the high profile accomplishments to date in the field of molecular electronics are the result of single investigators working on a small part of a large interdisciplinary program. This workshop will enable synthetic chemists, device engineers, theorists, and researchers in industry and national laboratories to work together to advance the field.