SSL/NUSNNI Seminar Series 2004 No.4

Date: August 20 (Friday), 2004
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Venue: Physics Resource Room (Blk S13 # 02-16)

Speaker: Dr. Liu Lei
Title: Overview of frontiers of Nanoscience Research from the "Spring College on Science at the Nanoscale"

Abstract:
This talk will highlight the key nanoscience frontier research areas presented at in the SPRING COLLEGE ON SCIENCE AT THE NANOSCALE (24 May - 11 June 2004, Trieste, Italy), organized by the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). The latest experimental and theoretical studies on nanoscale materials will be discussed briefly, including surface manipulations (nanoshaving, nanografting, and dip pen nanografting), elasticity of proteins; hybrid molecule-silicon assemblies, electric and thermal transport, modeling of semiconductor quantum dots and heterogeneous catalysis, and so on.