Nanotech/Cleantech 2008 - Boston, MA - June 1 - 5

The nanoSTAR Institute exhibited a booth at the 2008 co-located NSTI Nanotechnology & CTSI Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Conference and Trade Show in Boston the first week of June. The conference included over 4000 attendees from industry, academia, and government. With over thirty technical and business symposium, a few of the topical areas included: nanoelectronics and photonics, MEMS and NEMS, sustainable design, clean water technologies, clean energy alternatives (such as photovoltaics, bio-fuels, wind and hydrogen), transportation, health and medical devices, cancer diagnosis imaging and treatment, and drug delivery and therapeutics. There were also several sessions on IP Protection, early investment, initiatives, education, and policy. Corporate Needs sessions spaced throughout the agenda included executives’ presentations regarding “Strategic Technical Interests” highlighting future research collaboration opportunities. Represented companies included Lockheed Martin (the CTO was the keynote speaker, several high level managers spoke during specific sessions), IBM, BP, Merck, Kodak, Medtronic, Shell, GE, Air Products, BASF, Genzyme, and Boeing. Senior representatives from NIH and DOE also participated.

There were many sessions which may be of interest to you.  Our undergraduate associate has organized a number of the presentations by area (nanoSTAR Collab Site). The links on the Collab Site will take you to an abstract of the talk.  Please contact us if you would like further detail about any of the presentations and we will try to get you more information (some have accompanying papers).   To view the full conference program, please see  http://www.nsti.org/Nanotech2008/ .  If you select “Technical Program” the talks will be sorted by subject.  The Cleantech presentations can be found through this page, or directly at http://www.csievents.org/Cleantech2008/program/ .

The conference brought significant visibility to the nanotechnology related activities at the University of Virginia.  The nanoSTAR booth was very well received; we estimate over 100 visitors made an effort to stop to learn more.  I will be contacting individuals to follow up on specific requests.  Beyond the expo, there were displays with our logo prominently shown throughout the conference center and a description of the institute in the program.  It was a great first step to building our external presence.  We are in the process of preparing for our public launch early this fall.  Details will follow shortly.

Please contact me if you would like more information in any of these areas.

Best,
Lisa