Annual Report 2008
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Annual Report 2008 ANNUAL REPORT 2008 MISSION STATEMENT AND OBJECTIVES ............................................................................. 3 Mission Statement........................................................................................................................... 3 Year 4 in Review............................................................................................................................. 4 Structure and Management ............................................................................................................. 5 ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN BY ARCNN................................................................................. 7 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN2008) 28/07/2008 - 1/08/2008 – Melbourne Convention Centre.................................................................................. 10 INTERNATIONAL NETWORKING .......................................................................................... 23 Australian-US Workshop - "Sustainable Nano-Manufacturing" ..................................................23 Australian – Italian NanoE3-2008 22/09/2008 - 24/09/2008 - Margaret River Resort ................27 Australia Japan Nanophotonics Workshop 09/12/2008 - 10/12/2008 - ANU, Canberra..............30 DISTINGUISHED LECTURER TOURS .................................................................................... 32 Prof Horst Hahn ............................................................................................................................32 Professor Roberto Menozzi...........................................................................................................34 SPECIAL LECTURES ................................................................................................................. 35 Dr Don Eigler................................................................................................................................35 LONG TERM VISITS.................................................................................................................. 37 Mr Dinesh Kumar Venkatachalam (RMIT University) – visit to the Electronic Materials Engineering Department at the Australian National University ...................................................37 SHORT TERM VISITS................................................................................................................ 40 Miss Christine Henry (Australian National University) – visit to the University of Queensland.40 Miss Yimeng Yang(University of Western Australia) – visit to the University of New South Wales.............................................................................................................................................41 Miss E-Jen Teh (University of Western Australia) – visit to the Australian National University43 Mr Christopher Hall (Swinburne University) – visit to the Australian National University........43 Mr Andrew Stephenson (University of Queensland) - visit to the University of New South Wales.............................................................................................................................................45 OVERSEAS TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS ..................................................................................... 47 Mr Anthony Musumeci (UQ) visit to Argonne National Labs, Chicago, USA............................47 Miss Glenna Drisko (Uni of Melb) visit to the National Atomic Energy Atomic Constituent Commission Center Buenos Aires, Argentina ..............................................................................49 Dr Edith Chow (CSIRO) visit to Stanford University, USA ........................................................52 Dr Diana Bowman (Monash University) visit to KU Leuven (KUL) Belgium............................54 Mr Nadim Darwish (UNSW) visit to Hokkaido University, Japan ..............................................56 Miss Candace Chiu Ping Chan (UniSA) visit to University of Poitiers, France ..........................56 Mr Igor Aharonovich (UniMelb) visit to Hewlett Packard (HP), USA........................................57 Miss Anette Tyler (UWA) visit to Virginia Tech, USA...............................................................59 Mr Anbusathaiah Varatharajan (UNSW) visit to Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA............61 Mrs Shaghik Atakaramians (Uni of Adelaide) visit to Aachen University, Germany .................64 Mr Tor Kit Goh (Melbourne University) – visit to Nagoya University, Japan ............................66 Mr Matthew Nussio (Flinders Uni) - visit to the University of Barcelona...................................71 Dr Xiangdong Yao (Uni Queensland) – visit to the University of London (UK). .......................73 YOUNG NANOTECHNOLOGY AMBASSADOR AWARDS ................................................. 76 Mr Anthony Musumeci (University of Queensland) ....................................................................76 Mr Yanan Guo (University of Queensland)..................................................................................76 Mr Ashley Stephens (The University of Melbourne) ...................................................................77 Miss Minoo Naebe (Deakin University).......................................................................................77 Mr Muthukumaraswamy Pennirselvam (LaTrobe University).....................................................77 WORKSHOPS, CONFERENCES AND EVENTS...................................................................... 79 Ministerial Roundtable on Nanotechnology - 8th July 2008 ........................................................79 HOPE Meeting –24/02/2008 - 29/02/2008 – Tsukuba, Japan ......................................................81 Asia Nanotech Camp Initiative.....................................................................................................84 Early Career Researcher and Postgraduate Student Symposium 23/02/2008 - 24/02/2008 - Melbourne Business School, Melbourne ......................................................................................85 2008 Asia-Pacific Symposium on Nanobionics 22/06/2008 - 26/06/2008 - University of Wollongong...................................................................................................................................88 International Conference on Electronic Materials 2008, 28/07/2008 -1/08/2008– Sydney Hilton ............................................................................................................................................91 17th International Conference on Photochemical Conversion and Solar Energy 27/07/2008 - 01/08/2008 - Sydney, Australia ....................................................................................................97 1st Asian-Oceania Neutron Scattering Association 17/08/2008 - 23/08/2008 - Daejeon, Korea.99 Innovations Campus Scanning Probe Microscopy and Hands-On Workshop '08 28/08/2008 - 30/08/2008 - University of Wollongong.....................................................................................102 Workshop on Bio/Micro/Nanofluidics, Complex Flows and Rheology 01/09/2008 - 02/09/2008 - Monash University....................................................................................................................109 Nanotechnology: Science, Policy and Public Perspectives - Workshop 21/11/2008 - Monash University....................................................................................................................................113 Small Matters: Microscopy and Microanalysis 03/12/2008 - 05/12/2008 - The University of Sydney.........................................................................................................................................114 WEBSITE ................................................................................................................................... 117 NANOTECHNOLOGY FACILITIES AND CAPABILITIES REGISTER.............................. 118 NEWSLETTER .......................................................................................................................... 118 NanoQ (Nano Quest Magazine).................................................................................................. 118 MEMBERSHIP........................................................................................................................... 119 PLANNED 2009 ACTIVITIES.................................................................................................. 120 Appendix A - ARCNN Members by State..................................................................................126 Appendix B – Demographic list of ARCNN Website Hits ........................................................169 Appendix C - ARCNN News, Edition 18, December 2008........................................................177 Appendix D - List of ARCNN Friends .......................................................................................181 Appendix E – ICONN 2010 Poster.............................................................................................183 2 MISSION STATEMENT AND OBJECTIVES Mission Statement The Mission statement of the Australian Research Council Nanotechnology Network is to enhance Australia’s Research in Nanotechnology and related areas, by effectively promoting and drawing together collaborations in this field. Objectives The Nanotechnology field is one of the fastest growing areas of research and technology.