Changes to CINT Management Team:
Dr. Antoinette (Toni) Taylor Appointed to CINT Associate Director Position

Effective June 29, 2003, Dr. Taylor has assumed the position of Associate Director for the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies. Dr. Taylor is internationally recognized for her scientific accomplishments in the development of and application of nanoscale probes with over 170 refereed publications to her credit. Dr. Taylor, who holds a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University, completed her postdoctoral research at Cornell University before joining AT&T Bell Laboratories as a Member of the Technical Staff in 1984. Since joining Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1986, she has developed numerous scientific programs and led technical organizations in condensed matter physics and short-pulse laser diagnostics. In 2003, she received the inaugural Los Alamos Fellow’s Prize for Outstanding Leadership in Science and Engineering. Dr. Taylor has been an active member of the CINT Team serving as a Scientific Thrust Leader for Complex Functional Nanomaterials.

In the interim, we are extremely pleased to announce that Alan Hurd has agreed to serve as CINT Interim Associate Director until a permanent replacement is named.Alan is an accomplished scientist and manager who is known to many throughout the international scientific community. Before joining Los Alamos in 2001 to become Director for the Manuel Lujan, Jr. Neutron Scattering Center, Alan served in a number of senior technical and management positions at Sandia National Laboratories beginning in 1984. At Sandia, he managed the departments of Ceramics Processing Sciences, Theoretical and Computational Materials Modeling, New Materials Theory and Validation, and Catalytic and Porous Materials. He also continues to serve as an adjunct professor of physics at the University of New Mexico. Alan’s record of scientific accomplishment, having twice received the DOE Basic Energy Sciences Award for Sustained Outstanding Research and the DOE Basic Energy Sciences Award for Significant DOE Implications, make him extremely well suited to contribute to this critical phase of CINT’s program development. In addition, as Director of the Lujan Center, Alan’s participation in will serve to strengthen the important connection between BES sponsored user facilities in New Mexico.Please join us in wishing Don all the best in his future endeavors and in welcoming Alan on as a full-fledged member of the CINT Management Team.
Terry

Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies initiates first round of user projectsThe DOE/BES Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) has announced the first group of external users who have been approved to begin working at the new nanoscience center. In advance of full center operations, scheduled for 2006, the Department of Energy/Office of Basic Energy Sciences provided CINT and the other Nanoscale Science Research Centers with $1.5M each to “Jump-Start” user operations. CINT’s jump-start operations will use existing capabilities at Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories. At full operations, CINT’s Core Facility (new construction) will be the focal point for users along with the Gateway to Los Alamos Facility (new construction) and the Gateway to Sandia Facility (existing Sandia building space). Nearly 80 proposals requesting access to CINT’s nanoscience facilities and expertise were received in response to a call for proposals that was issued in the summer of 2003. Technical reviews by leading scientists from outside the laboratories played a critical role in selecting the first set of approved user projects. In all, 36 projects were given the green light to begin. This round of user projects involves researchers at 24 different universities coming from16 States and the United Kingdom. Seven of the approved user projects are led by researchers from New Mexico universities. Two approved proposals are combined CINT and LANSCE neutron scattering. The first round of projects leverages expertise at both laboratories, in some cases combining capabilities at Sandia and Los Alamos within a single project. The new projects will address the flow of liquids through nano-scale channels, advanced imaging of biological membranes, development of super-strong nano-composite materials, and many more forefront scientific topics that build from CINT’s core of expertise in nanoelectronics and nanophotonics, complex functional nanomaterials, nano-bio-micro interfaces, nanomechanics, and theory and simulation. The user projects will bring research scientists and students from throughout the country to New Mexico to engage in cutting-edge nanoscience exploration and discovery. JumpStartMap2.ppt.Lab-to-Lab

CINT Thrust visits
CINT scientific schemes are organized into five thrusts: nano-bio-micro-interfaces, nanophotonics and nanoelectronics, complex functional nanomaterials, nanomechanics, and theory and simulation. These diversified programmatic goals aim to bring together strengths of scientists from Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories together, cross-fertilized existing programs and build new ones. In order to enhance opportunity for interaction among CINT scientists, we have decided to organize ‘road-trip visits’ between the labs. The first one, organized around the scheme of nanomechanics, took place on October 23, 2003. A large group of Sandia scientists visited Los Alamos. Mike Nastasi, LANL thrust leader for nanomechanics, hosted the visit. About 70 people from both labs participated in the event.Morning presentations were given by nine LANL-CINT scientists and focused on synthesis of nano-materials using both top-down and bottom-up approaches. The second half of the day was dedicated to lab tours. Extended lunch allowed for discussions.The visit was viewed as very useful by most of the participants; we gathered numerous comments and suggestions for future possible improvements towards the format of presentations and the forum, itself.

Next visit dedicated to the topic of bio-nano-interfaces will take place in January 2004 and will be organized by Bruce Bunker at Sandia.