dec04_researchers.qxp RESEARCH/RESEARCHERS MRS BULLETIN/DECEMBER 2004 913 ences between electrodes made from cop- per and those made from tin. The branches of the tin deposits are longer and straighter than those of copper. The copper foams also contain nanometer- sized grains and pores not seen in the tin structures. Liu said the differences may be related to the fact that during deposi- tion of the copper electrodes, gas bubbles are produced from both the deposited copper and the substrate. In the tin elec- trodes, only the substrate produces bub- bles. The researchers will publish their work in an upcoming issue of Advanced Functional Materials. tor of the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), Kalpakkam, India, beginning his tenure in May. Matthew Tirrell, Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Cali- fornia, Santa Barbara, has been appointed as a Venture Partner at NGEN Partners LLC (Santa Barbara, Calif.), a venture capi- tal fund with a focus on the materials field. Chris G. Van de Walle has joined the Materials Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara as professor of computational materials. He will also be associated with the Materials Research Laboratory and the California Nano- Systems Institute. News of MRS Members/Materials Researchers S. Banerjee has been appointed direc- tor of the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai, India, begin- ning his tenure in April. Chad Mirkin, the George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Institute for Nanotechnology at North- western University, has been selected to receive the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Pioneer Award in recog- nition of his efforts in pioneering the devel- opment of nanoscale chemical and biologi- cal sensors. Mirkin is also the founder of Nanosphere, Inc. in Northbrook, Ill. and NanoInk, Inc. in Chicago, Ill. Baldev Raj has been appointed direc- Jennifer West, the Isabel C. Cameron Professor of Bioengineering and profes- sor of chemical engineering at Rice University, has been selected to receive the 2004 Annunzio Award from the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation in recognition of her work in biomaterials and tissue engineering. Wolfgang Windl of The Ohio State University and Gerd Duscher of North Carolina State University have been awarded the 2004 Nano Technology Industrial Impact Award from the Nano Science and Technology Institute for their discovery of atomically sharp “perfect” interfaces in Si:Ge/SiO2 devices. conductor manufacturing productivity in the current and future manufacturing facil- ities of its member companies. ISMI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SEMATECH, Inc. (Austin, Texas). Matsushita joins AMD, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Infineon, Intel, Freescale, Philips, Texas Instruments, and TSMC (www.panasonic.co.jp/global; www.ismi.sematech.org). NanoDynamics (Buffalo, N.Y.) has signed a joint venture agreement with the New Zealand-based technology company, Nano Cluster Devices Ltd. (NCD) to com- mercialize NCD’s technology process for self-assembly of nanowires in production of semiconductors and electronic compo- nents (www.nanodynamics.com; www. nanoclusterdevices.com). Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers have been announced by the National Science Foundation for the fol- lowing universities: University of Cali- fornia—Berkeley, Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems ($11.9 million), director: Alex Zettl; Northeastern Univer- sity, Center for High Rate Nanomanu- facturing ($12.4 million), director: Ahmed Busnaina; Ohio State University, Center for Affordable Nanoengineering of Polymer Biomedical Devices ($12.9 million), direc- tor: L. James Lee; University of Penn- sylvania, Center on Molecular Function at the Nano/Bio Interface ($11.4 million), News of MRS Corporate Affiliates/Materials Institutions The Aachen University of Techno- logy, AIXTRON AG (Aachen, Ger- many), and Philips Lighting (Aachen- Rothe Erde, Germany) have signed a col- laboration agreement aimed at the joint development of novel large-area white organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) (www.rwth-aachen.de; www.aixtron.com; www.lighting.philips. com). The Ceramics and Composites Labor- atory has been launched within the Department of Engineering Materials at Sheffield University, United Kingdom, to develop new materials. The laboratory has been guaranteed funding of £6 mil- lion over the next five years from the Engineering and Physical Research Council (EPSRC) (www.shef.ac.uk/materials/ research/centres/ccl.html). The Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics at the State University of New York at Buffalo has received a $925,000 grant from the John R. Oishei Foundation for research and develop- ment in nanomedicine and nanobiotech- nology (www.photonics.buffalo.edu). Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) has joined the International SEMATECH Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI), becoming the newest member of the global consortium of leading semicon- ductor manufacturers engaged in coopera- tive precompetitive work to improve semi- director: Dawn Bonnell; Stanford Univer- sity, Center for Probing the Nanoscale ($7.5 million), director: Kathryn Moler; University of Wisconsin—Madison, Center for Templated Synthesis and Assembly at the Nanoscale ($13.4 million), director: Paul Nealey (www.nsf.gov). The Northwestern Institute on Com- plex Systems (NICO) was established at Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) to stimulate path-breaking research of com- plex systems across traditional boundaries. NICO comprises a distinguished and diverse group of faculty from all areas of the university, including engineering, busi- ness, natural sciences, education, medicine, law, and the social sciences. Mark A. Ratner, Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern, is the group leader of the NICO-affiliated center on materials self- assembly processes (www.northwestern. edu/research/nico). Correction In the article, “Novel Materials and Appli- cations of Electronic Noses and Tongues,” published in the October 2004 issue of MRS Bulletin, the publication listed as Reference 26 was incorrect. The correct reference is: N.A. Rakow and K.S. Suslick, “A Colori- metric Sensor Array for Odour Visuali- zation,” Nature 406 (2000) p. 710. FOR MORE RESEARCH NEWS ON MATERIALS SCIENCE . . . w w w. m r s . o r g / g a t e w a y / m a t l _ n e w s . h t m l www.mrs.org/publications/bulletin https://doi.org/10.1557/mrs2004.257 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 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