February 5, 2007

Time	Room
6:00 – 8:00	Governor’s Hall	Registration

February 6, 2007

Time	Room
7:30	Governor’s Hall	Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00	Houston Room	Welcoming remarks, Ronald Elsenbaumer, University of Texas at Arlington
		Session 1 – Chair: Wade Adams, Rice University
8:30am	Houston Room	Nonlinear-Optical Metamaterials for Image Conversion and Amplification, Michael Vasilyev, University of Texas at Arlington.
9:15am	Houston Room	C60 structural transformation by electrorheological testing, Karen Lozano University of Texas-Pan American
9:45am	Houston Room	Plasmon-enhanced terahertz near-field sensing at the single molecule level, Daniel M. Mittleman, Rice University
10:15am	Dallas Room	Coffee Break
		Session 2 - Chair: Bruce Gnade, University of Texas at Dallas
10:45am	Houston Room	Negative refraction in 3D Photonic Crystals: Synthesis of Silicon Based Opal by Chemical Reduction of Silica Opal., A. E. Aliev, M. A. O. Royer, A. A. Zakhidov, and R. H. Baughman. University of Texas at Dallas.
11:15am	Houston Room	Multi-Functionalized Carbon–Based Nanopaper Sheets, L. Sun^1*, H. Xing^1, J. Gou^2, and G. Song^1 , ^1 University of Houston, ^2 University of South Alabama.
11:45am	Houston Room	Single Molecule Spectroelectrochemistry (SMS-EC), Rodrigo E. Palacios, Fu-Ren F. Fan, Allen J. Bard, and Paul F. Barbara, University of Texas, Austin.
12:00-3:30pm	Waldorf Astoria Ballroom (2nd Floor)	Poster Set-up
12:15pm	Cougar Den	Box Lunch

		Session 3 – Chair: Ronald Elsenbaumer, University of Texas at Arlington
1:45m	Houston Room	Ion-Beam Assisted Fabrication of GaN nanorod and Applications, Wei-Kan Chu^1, Q. Y. Chen^1, L. W. Tu^2, and H.W. Seo^3 , ^1 University of Houston, ^2 National Sun Yat-sen University, ^3 University of Arkansas.
2:15pm	Houston Room	Nano Energetics, Andrew R. Barron, Rice University
2:45pm	Houston Room	Novel Nanostructured Proton Exchange Membranes for High Temperature Fuel Cells, John P. Ferraris, Kenneth J. Balkus, Jr., Inga H. Musselman, D.J. Yang, Grace Kalaw, Ann Chacko, Zhiwei Yang, Decio Coutinho, and Von Ebron The University of Texas at Dallas.
3:15pm	Dallas Room	Coffee Break
		Session 4 – Chair: John Ferraris, University of Texas at Dallas
3:45pm	Houston Room	Finding Nanoparticle Electrocatalysts and Photocatalysts by Rapid Synthesism and Screening with the Scanning Electrochemical Microscope, Allen J. Bard, The University of Texas at Austin.
4:15pm	Houston Room	Casimir forces and geometry of nanomechanical systems, Andreas Hanke, University of Texas at Brownsville
6:00pm	UH-Hilton – Astoria Ballroom	Poster Session/Cocktail Reception
8:30pm	UH-Hilton – Astoria Ballroom	Poster Removal

February 7, 2007

Time	Room
7:30am	Governor's Hall Dallas Room	Registration Continental breakfast
		Session 5 – Chair: Zeynep Celik-Butler, University of Texas at Arlington
8:30am	Houston Room	Survey of Nanoscience Research Activities at Sandia National Laboratories, Carlos J Gutierrez, Sandia National Laboratories
9:00am	Houston Room	Adaptive Materials for Aerospace, Jeffrey Baur and Richard Vaia, Air Force Research Laboratory
9:15am	Houston Room	C60 Structural Transformation by Electroheological Testing Karen Lozano, University of Texas-Pan American
9:30am	Houston Room	CONTACT - Nanotechnology for the Air Force, Aerospace and Commerce, Forrest (Jack) Agee, Rice University.
10:00am	Houston Room	Coffee Break
		Session 6 – Chair: Suresh Sharma, University of Texas at Arlington
10:30am	Houston Room	Direct Injection of Liquids into Low Pressure Plasmas: Working Towards the Synthesis of Nanostructured Composites. L. Overzet,^1 Matthew Goeckner,^1 D. Ogawa,^1 I. Saraf^1, Richard Timmons,^2 Sam Sanchez^2 , ^1 The University of Texas at Dallas, ^2 The University of Texas at Arlington
11:00am	Houston Room	Integrated Multi-functional Sensors for Failure Prognosis in Aerospace Systems, Zeynep Çelik-Butler^1, Donald P. Butler^1 and Jesse R. Lackey^2, , University of Texas at Arlington, ^2 Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
11:30am	Houston Room	Nanophotonics for Aerospace, Rachel Jakubiak and Augustine Urbas, Air Force Research Laboratory
12noon	Cougar Den	Box Lunch
		Session 7 – Chair: Paul Barbara, University of Texas at Austin
1:30pm	Houston Room	An Overview of the Taiwan National Nanotechnology Program Maw-Kuen Wu, Director, Institute of Physcis, Acadmia Sinica Taipei, Taiwan
2:00pm	Houston Room	Simple Patterning Methodologies for High-Performance, Solution-Processed Thin-Film Transistors, Yueh-Lin (Lynn) Loo, University of Texas at Austin
2:30pm	Houston Room	Switchable Gratings Formed In Holographic Polymer-Dispersed Liquid Crystals and Modifications in their Performance by Irradation-induced Charges, Suresh C Sharma, University of Texas at Arlington
3:00pm	Governor’s Hall	Coffee Break
		Session 8 – Chair: Richard Vaia, Air Force Research Laboratory
3:30pm	Houston Room	Shaken Not Stirred: Magnetic Viruses for Biomagnetic Sensing, Axel Hoffmann, Argonne National Laboratory.
4:00pm	Houston Room	Parametric Studies of SWNT Carpet Growth with Atomic Hydrogen Activation of the Metal Catalyst, Robert H. Hauge^1, Sean Pheasant^1, Cary Pint^1, Charles Horton^1, and Yaqiong Xu^2, ^1 Rice University, ^2 Cornell University
4:30pm	Houston Room	Development of Materials for Power Systems for Air Force Applications, Lisa Denny, Air Force Research Laboratory.
5:00pm	Houston Room	Nonvolatile Resistive Switching of an Interfacial Nanolayer, Stephen Tsui, University of Houston.
5:30	Houston Room	Closing Remarks/Meeting Adjournment
6:00pm	Bayou City rm	Executive committee meeting (Invitation only)