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Last Update: January 13, 2012 3:49 PM   

Introducing the 2012 CNMS User Executive Committee

CNMS users elected the 2012 User Executive Committee (UEC) by online voting during the period October 27 to November 22, 2011. The following candidates were elected to serve with terms beginning January 1, 2012.

Chair, by succession from Vice-Chair: Martyn McLachlan (Imperial College, London) - 2012

Vice-Chair: Tony Hmelo (Vanderbilt University) - 2013

Secretary: Milan Buncick (AEgis Technologies Group) - 2013

At-Large Members:

  Nina Balke (ORNL/CNMS) - 2012

  Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb (Georgia Tech) - 2013

  Marco Buongiorno Nardelli (North Carolina State University) - 2012

  Michael Hickner (Penn State) - 2013

  Ichiro Takeuchi (U. Maryland) - 2013

  Vivek Prabhu (NIST) - 2012

  Colin Wolden (Colorado School of Mines) - 2012

Past Chair, ex officio member: Mark Dadmun (University of Tennessee) - 2012

The UEC serves as the official voice of the CNMS user community to CNMS’s management and stakeholders. Users are encouraged to contact any member of the UEC with their suggestions for enhancing the benefits the community receives from CNMS.

For more information, see the “CNMS User Group” section of the CNMS web site.

• Expression Optimization and Synthetic Gene Networks in Cell-free Systems (December 2011)
• Tunable Metallic Conductance in Ferroelectric Nanodomains (December 2011)
• Supramolecular Self-Assembly of p-conjugated Hydrocarbons via 2D Cooperative CH/p Interaction (December 2011)
• PS-b-P3HT Copolymers as P3HT/PCBM Interfacial Compatibilizers for High Efficiency Photovoltaics (November 2011)
• Enhanced Electric Conductivity at Ferroelectric Vortex Cores in BiFeO₃ (November 2011)
• Antioxidant Deactivation on Graphenic Nanocarbon Surfaces (August 2011)
• Electromechanical Actuation and Current-Induced Metastable States in Suspended Single-Crystalline VO₂ Nanoplatelets (August 2011)
• Measuring oxygen reduction/evolution reactions on the nanoscale (August 2011)
• Enhanced Performance Consistency in Nanoparticle/TIPS Pentacene-Based Organic Thin Film Transistors (July 2011)
• Micro/nanofabricated environments for synthetic biology (June 2011)
• Low-temperature Exfoliation of Multilayer-Graphene Material from FeCl₃ and CH₃NO₂ Co-intercalated Graphite Compound (May 2011)
• Direct Imprinting of Porous Substrates: A Rapid and Low-Cost Approach for Patterning Porous Nanomaterials (May 2011)
• Low-Voltage, Low-Power Organic Light-Emitting Transistors for AMOLED Displays (April 2011)
• Surface domain structures and mesoscopic phase transition in relaxor ferroelectrics (April 2011)
• Fluctuations and Correlations in Physical and Biological Nanosystems (April 2011)
• Dynamic Conductivity of Ferroelectric Domain Walls in BiFeO₃ (April 2011)
• Characterization and Carbonization of Highly-Oriented Poly(diiododiacetylene) Nanofibers (March 2011)
• Phonon softening and metallization of a narrow-gap semiconductor by thermal disorder (March 2011)
  

“Coatings Influence Nanoparticle Toxicity,” Chemical & Engineering News (January 12, 2012)

“Nanoscale Metallic Conductivity Demonstrated in Ferroelectrics,” Science Daily (January 9, 2012)

“Describing reactions in a fuel cell on the nanoscale,” Nanowerk News (December 28, 2011)

“Cummings to receive Touloukian Award,” (December 2011)

“Two UT–ORNL Scientists, Bredesen Center Leaders Elected AAAS Fellows,” Tennessee Today (December 8, 2011)

“What a double at ORNL! Maksymovych wins Young Scientist & Top Scientist awards,” Atomic City Underground (November 15, 2011)

“Imaging the electrochemical reaction in solid oxide fuel cells,” Ceramic Tech Today (August 25, 2011)

“Asylum Research Win MT-10 Award for Electrochemical Strain Microscopy,” AZoNano- the A to Z of Nanotechnology (August 18, 2011)

“ORNL microscopy generates new view of fuel cells,” Materials Views (August 18, 2011)

“Growing Straight Nanofibers,” Laboratory Equipment (August 17, 2011)
   - see also “Ions Control Shape of Nanofibers Grown on Clear Substrate,”
      nanotimes (click here then jump to page 66)

“Three at ORNL get early-career awards,” Atomic City Underground (May 17, 2011)

“Nanotechnologists Must Take Lessons from Nature,” Nanotechnology Now (April 30, 2011)

“New pixel technology could pave way for next generation of consumer electronics,” Nanowerk News (April 28, 2011)

“New microscopy technique could advance battery performance,” Medill Reports (January 13, 2011)

Neutron Sciences Monthly Progress Reports