Technical Program
Sunday, March 16 Reception 6-9 pm- J. Graham Brown Room3rd Floor (2 drinks/person)
Monday, March 17
7.00 am - 8.00 am REGISTRATION
8.00 am – 8.30 am SESSION 0: OPENING REMARKS (Crystal Ballroom, 3rd Floor)
8:00 – 8:15 Dr. James Ramsey, President, University of Louisville
8:15 – 8:20 Mr. Glenn Sullivan, President, Sullivan University
8:20 – 8:30 Dr. M. R. Wilhelm, Dean, J.B. Speed School of Engineering
8:30 am – 11:00 am SESSION 1: SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION AND STORAGE (Crystal Ballroom, 3rd Floor)
Session Chairs: M. Sunkara, G. Sumanasekera and H. Rypkema (UofL)
8:30 – 9:00 Keynote Lecture by Dr. Eray Aydil, University of Minnesota
Nanowire Solar Cells
9:00 – 9:30 Invited Lecture by Dr. Vijay Singh, University of Kentucky
Semiconductor Nanowires for Solar Cell Applications
9:30 – 9:45 Dr. Vidhya Chakrapani, University of Louisville
Nanowire Based Energy Conversion and Storage Research
9:45 – 10:15 Keynote Lecture by Dr. Robert Nemanich, ASU
Efficient Energy Conversion Based on Thermionic Emission From Diamond and Nanostructured Carbon
Films
10:15 – 10:30 Dr. Bruce Alphenaar, University of Louisville
Photocurrent spectroscopy of exciton formation and dissociation in organic solar cells
10:30 – 10:45 Dr. Heather Rypkema, University of Louisville
Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectroscopy: Applications to Energy Research
10:45 am – 11:00 am BREAK
11:00 am – 12:30 pm SESSION 2: CATALYSIS AND OTHER ENERGY CONVERSION (Crystal Ballroom, 3rd Floor)
Session Chairs: U. Graham (CAER, UK) and Z. Q. Chen (IAM-RE, UofL)
11.00– 11.45 Keynote Lecture - Dr. Sotiris Pratsinis, ETH, Zurich
Flame aerosol synthesis of photocatalysts
11.45 - 12.00 Dr. Mark Crocker, UK, Center for Applied Energy Research
Biodiesel Synthesis from Soybean Oil using Calcined Li-Al Layered Double Hydroxide Catalysts
Modifications of Fluid Properties with Nanoparticles
12:15 – 12:30 Dr. Steve Lipka, UK, Center for Applied Energy Research
Porous Carbon: A Nano-enabling Technology for Energy Storage
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm LUNCH BREAK (NOTE – Lunch not provided. A list of nearby restaurants is included in the program
booklet)
1:30 pm - 3:15 pm POSTER SESSION (Bluegrass Room, 2nd Floor)
Session Chairs: T.L. Starr (UofL) and P. Menguc (UK)
3:30 pm – 5:30 pm BREAKOUT SESSIONS: SHORT COURSE 1
SHORT COURSE 1: Electron Microscopy, Surface Analysis and Photoelectrochemical Techniques
(Broadway A, 3rd Floor)
Course Instructors: Z.Q. Chen ( IAM-RE, UofL), G.U. Sumanasekera (UofL) and V. Chakrapani (IAMRE, UofL).
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm KYNANOMAT BANQUET-Crystal Ballroom, 3rd Floor
Bar opens at 6.30 pm (2 drinks/person)
POSTER AWARD PRESENTATION
BANQUET SPEAKER - Pete Ludovice, Ph.D. "Nanotechnology - because size does matter"
Tuesday, March 18
8:30 am – 10:30 am SESSION 3: DRUG DELIVERY, BIOSENSING AND THERAPIES (Crystal Ballroom, 3rd Floor)
Session Chairs: B.J. Hinds (UK), K. Kang (UofL), Y. Pathak (Sullivan)
8:30 – 9:15 Keynote Lecture - Dr. Scott Diamond, University of Pennsylvania
Chemical Biology on a Microarray
9:15 – 9:30 Dr. J. Zach Hilt, University of Kentucky
Nanocomposite Hydrogels as Intelligent Drug Delivery Systems
9:30 – 9:45 Dr. Fieberg, Centre College
Nanomolar Sensing with Multiple Conical Gold Nanotubes
9:45 – 10:00 Dr. Yuguang Cai, University of Kentucky
The Boundary Protein Molecules Show Higher Antibody Binding Affinity than the Interior Protein Molecules
In a Protein Pattern
10:00 – 10:15 Dr. Kyung A. Kang, University of Louisville
Nano-Metal Particles for Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
10:15 am – 10:30 am BREAK
10:30 am – 12:15 pm SESSION 4: FUNCTIONAL NANOMATERIALS (Crystal Ballroom, 3rd Floor)
Session Chairs: S. Rankin (UK), G. Willing (UofL) and E. Grulke (UK)
10:30 – 10:50 Dr. Dibakar Bhattacharyya, University of Kentucky
Synthesis of Nanostructured Metals in Functionalized Membranes for Dechlorination Reactions
10:50 – 11:10 Dr. Moises Carreon, University of Louisville
Improved SAPO-34 zeolite membranes for carbon dioxide separation from light gas mixtures
11:10 – 11:30 Dr. Lance Delong, University of Kentucky
Novel Magnetic Order in Complex Transition Metal Oxides
11:30 – 11:50 Dr. Francis Zamborini, University of Louisville
Chemical and Electrochemical Synthesis of Metal Nanostructures: Size-Dependent Properties and Sensing
Applications
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm LUNCH BREAK (NOTE - Lunch not provided. A list of nearby restaurants is included in the program
booklet)
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm SESSION 5: KENTUCKY RESEARCH INSTITUTES AND CENTERS (Crystal Ballroom, 3rd Floor)
Session Chair: R. W. Cohn (UofL)
1:00 – 1:20 Dr. Teresa Fan, University of Louisville
The Center for Regulatory & Environmental Analytical Metabolomics (CREAM)
1:20 – 1:40 Dr. Andrew Lane, University of Louisville
The Mission of the JG Brown Cancer Center
1:40 – 2:10 Dr. Todd Hastings, University of Kentucky
The Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CeNSE)
The Udall Parkinson’s Disease Research Center of Excellence
The Center for Microelectrode Technology (CenMet)
2:10 pm – 3:00 pm PANEL DISCUSSION (Speakers plus John Davies, Governor’s Office of Energy Policy; Manuel
Martinez-Maldonado, Vice president for Research, UofL; Rodney Andrews, CAER, UK)
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm BREAKOUT SESSIONS: SHORT COURSES 3 and 4
SHORT COURSE 3: BioAFM: Atomic Force and Scanning Probe Microscopies for Life Sciences Research (Broadway A, 2nd Floor)
SHORT COURSE 4: Computational Techniques (Broadway B, 2nd Floor)
