GLCACS 16th Annual Conference - Technology at the Crossroads

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• Time & Location:

May 5th 2012 (Saturday) 9:00-19:00

Northwestern University, Pancoe

Building, 2200 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL

• Eevent Agenda:

9:00-9:30 Registration/ Poster Mounting

9:30-9:45 Welcome

Xianghui Liu, Ph.D., President, GLCACS 2012

Norman Li, Ph.D., Chairman of GLCACS Board of Directors

9:45-10:30 In Vitro Diagnostic Assay Technologies and Applications

John M. Robinson,Ph.D. Senior Director, Collaborative Research Management, Abbott

Laboratories.

10:30-11:45 Are You Ready for an Industrial JOB?

Lubo Zhou, Ph.D., Senior R&D manager of Gas Processing Development, UOP.

11:15-11:25 Break

11:25-12:30 Poster Presentation Competition

12:30-14:30 Poster Paper Competition and Ballot Casting

Lunch Break

Job Fair

14:30-14:45 Final Competition Ballot Casting

14:45-15:00 Poster Competition Award and Closing Remark

15:05-15:50 Carbon Nanotubes as Electronic Materials – Progress and Prospects

Nathan Yoder,Ph.D. Chief Technology Officer, NanoIntegris IncLaboratories.

15:50-16:35 Organic and Hybrid Materials for Printed Opto-Electronics

Antonio Facchetti, Ph.D., CTO of Polyera Corporation and Joint Professor of

Northwestern University

16:35-16:40 Closing Remark

17:30-19:30 Dinner Reception (Hongkong Buffet)

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• Guest Speakers:

In Vitro Diagnostic Assay Technologies and Applications - Dr. John M. Robinson

In vitro diagnostic assays are a critical part of our health care system and the information that they provide is used by physician's in patient management decisions. This discussion will provide an overview of the Abbott Diagnostics business with particular focus on molecular diagnostic technologies and future directions. Real time PCR and the Ibis technology are two important tools in infectious disease detection

and management. Sequencing technology is evolving at a rapid pace that will eventually lead to whole genome sequencing data being available for patient management. FISH and other molecular techniques are very useful in oncology and other genetic diseases, which has led to the use of these techniques in

pharmacogenomics applications where the results of these assays is used to make drug therapy decisions for the patient.

Biography

John M. Robinson, Ph.D. Joined Abbott in 1983. Currently Senior Director, New Technology Group, Abbott Diagnostics. Responsible for the management of collaborations aimed at establishing performance characteristics of new cutting edge technologies with immunoassay, molecular diagnostic and point-of-care applications. Most recently was Senior Director, Assay Research and Development, Abbott Molecular. Responsible for molecular diagnostic product development, including RealTime PCR, FISH, sequencing and genomic applications. Teams launched a number of infectious disease assays on the automated m 2000 System, and developed many innovative FISH and PCR based assays in oncology. Led collaborations with pharmaceutical companies to develop drug companion diagnostic assays. As Project Manager in the Abbott Diagnostics Division, developed reagents and assays for a

number of immunodiagnostic applications on the ADD IMx and AxSYM System platforms. Prior to joining Abbott, developed automated microbiology assays at Vitek Systems, Inc. Received his Ph.D. in Biology/Microbiology from the University of Alabama.

Are You Ready for an Industrial JOB? - Dr. Lubo Zhou

Dr. Lubo Zhou

Senior R&D manager

Gas Processing Development

UOP.UOP LLC, A Honeywell Company

Abstract

Most of our Chinese and Chinese-American students in this organization did not have any working experience before. They came to US for graduate school studies directly from Chinese universities. After getting a master's or PhD degree from a university here, they are facing the challenges to find a right JOB. Some of the students may go to universities for teaching job, but majority of the students are going to work in industry. Are you ready for an industrial job? In this presentation, I, as a hiring manager, will give you some advice on how to prepare for an industrial job.

Biography

Dr. Lubo Zhou is currently a senior R&D manager of Gas Processing Development at UOP R&D department. Prior to his current role, Dr. Zhou worked as an R&D specialist, and senior R&D specialist at UOP since 1996. He has worked in variety of UOP technology fields after he joined the company. He has 16 US patent granted and 12 more pending applications. Dr. Zhou is very active in the Chinese-American

chemical community. He was the president of CACS in 2010, and is the current chairman of the organization. Dr. Zhou got his BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing in 1986, and his PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University in College Station, TX in 1995.

Carbon Nanotubes as Electronic Materials – Progress and Prospects - Dr. Nathan Yoder

Dr. Nathan Yoder

Chief Technology Officer

NanoIntegris Inc

Abstract

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) possess extraordinary electronic properties and have tremendous potential to enable new types of devices and add functionality to existing devices. Achieving this potential, however, requires the availability of exceptionally pure and electronically monodisperse carbon nanotubes. NanoIntegris was founded in 2007 to commercialize a method developed in the Hersam Research Group to separate CNTs by their physical and electronic structure. In the past 5 years, dramatic progress has been demonstrated as NanoIntegris has scaled up the producion capacity and lowered the costs of separated CNTs. Today, NanoIntegris supplies high-performance CNT inks to over 450 organizations, including many Fortune 500

companies. The broad availability of these materials has accelerated progress in this field, with over 80 publications to date. Application areas include thin film transistors for OLED backplanes, RF analog devices, CMOS logic, radiation-hardened electronics, flexible/wearable electronics, RFID, photodetectors and photovoltaics. Recent progress in device performance will be discussed, along with advancements in CNT

purification and separation.

Biography

Dr. Yoder leads the R&D, manufacturing and intellectual property strategy for NanoIntegris and is credited with launching the world’s first commercial separated carbon nanotube production facility. Over the last four years, he has been responsible for a 10,000X increase in production capacity, as well as continued material optimization and new product development. Dr. Yoder graduated from Purdue

University with a B.S. in Materials Engineering and received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Materials Science and Engineering, studying under Professor Mark Hersam. During his academic career, Dr. Yoder researched topics related to nanotechnology, molecular electronics, and scanning tunneling

microscopy. His work has been published in Physical Review Letters, the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He also holds Visiting Scholar positions at Northwestern University and Rice University.

Organic and Hybrid Materials for Printed Opto-Electronics - Dr. Antonio Facchetti

Dr. Antonio Facchetti

CTO of Polyera Corporation

Joint Professor of Northwestern University

Abstract

Electronic devices based on organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) have attracted considerable research efforts from both academia and industry since they are necessary for the development of the field of “printed electronics”. The excitement in this area is driven by the possibility to uncover fundamental questions related to charge injection/transport in organic semiconductors as well as the potential use of

OTFTs in cost-effective, flexible, large-area electronic applications such as displays, RFID tags, smart cards, and sensors. Solution-processable semiconducting materials exhibiting high hole (p-channel) and electron (n-channel) mobilities as well as proper gate dielectrics are necessary to enable printed OTFTs and complementary circuits. In this talk we present the structural design and synthesis of new building blocks for the realization of efficient charge transporting materials for printed field-effect transistors.

Particular emphasis will be given to the realization of n-channel TFTs since they traditionally suffer of far lower performance compared to the corresponding p-channel. Finally, some of our organic semiconductors find application in other devices such as light-emitting transistors and organic solar cells.

Biography

Antonio Facchetti is a co-founder and the CTO of Polyera Corporation. He obtained a Ph.D in Chemical Sciences from the U. Milan (Italy) and carried out postdoctoral research at the University of California-Berkeley and at Northwestern University, where he is currently an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry. Dr. Facchetti has published about 250 research articles, 7 book chapters, and holds about 45 patents. He received the 2009 Italian Chemical Society Research Prize, the team IDTechEx Printed Electronics

Europe 2010 Award, and he is a 2010 Kavli Fellow and a 2012 American Association for the Advanced of Science (AAAS) Fellow. Dr. Facchetti's research interests include organic semiconductors and dielectrics for thin-film transistors, conducting polymers, molecular electronics, organic second- and third order nonlinear optical materials, and organic photovoltaics.

Conference brochure

• Graduate Research Presentation Contest Awardees: