is an Army funded center created in the spring of 2001 and exists at four university sites, with the University of Minnesota as the lead institution.

NANOPARTICLE WORKSHOP was held AUGUST 26,  at the University of Minnesota

Mission

• Developing new methods for nanoparticle growth and surface passivation.
• Developing new Sol-Gel methods for generation of nanostructured materials with emphasis on energy release.
• Flow/chemistry/aerosol modeling of particle formation from thermal plasmas.
• Development of new nanoparticle characterization approaches based on:
• Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)
• Single-Particle Mass Spectrometry
• Nanoparticle oxidation kinetics.
• Fast spectroscopies to characterize rates of energy release for nanostructures.
• Measurement of solid-solid exothermic reactions.
• Computational chemistry/physics of nanostructures.

Investigators

Professor Tom Brill,
Dept. of Chemistry, U. of Delaware
Professor Sean Garrick,
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, U. of Minnesota
Professor Steven Girshick,
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, U. of Minnesota
Professor Alon McCormick,
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, U. of Minnesota
Professor Jan Puszynski,
Dept. of Chemical Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Professor Don Thompson,
Dept. of Chemistry, Oklahoma State University
Professor Don Truhlar,
Dept. of Chemistry and the Supercomputer Institute, U. of Minnesota
Professor Michael Zachariah,(DIRECTOR)
Dept's of Mechanical Engineering and Chemistry, U. of Minnesota

External Advisors-Collaborators

        Dr. Alex Gash,Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
        Dr. Carl Melius,Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)
        Dr. Andrzej Miziolek,Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
        Dr. Betsy Rice,Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
Prof. Mintmire           Oklahoma State University

  Students and Research Associates

Delaware

• Bryce Tappan
• Brian Roos

Minnesota

• Bo Liu
• Dibyendu Mukherjee
• Anand Prakash
• Ashish Rai
• Nate Schultz
• Nelson Settumba
• Bin Zhang

• Dr. Thierrey Renault
• Dr. Dong Geun Lee
• Dr. Graznya Staswewska
• Dr. Przemyslaw Staswewska
• Dr. Shekar Sonwane

Oklahoma

• Dr. Saman Alavi

South Dakota

• Berthold Liebig
• Amit Kurupathi
• Somu Valliappan
• Tyler Kerr
• Sundar Jayaraman

Facilities  (at U. of Minnesota)

• Excimer-Pumped Dye Laser
• Pulsed YAG Laser
• UV-Intensified CCD Camera
• 0.5 M Flat Field Imaging Spectrometer
• Single-Particle Time-of-Flight Mass-Spectrometer
• Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
• Quadrupole Mass-Spectrometer
• High Pressure Hg-Arc Lamp
• FTIR
• Assorted Atmospheric Pressure Laminar Flame Reactors
• DC and RF Thermal Plasma reactors
• Assorted Nanoparticle Measurement Systems

User Facilities (minnesota)

• Students have access to a wide array of aerosol generation and measurement apparatus through the Particle Technology Laboratory.

• Students have access to state-of-art characterization facilities through the U of M. Center for Interfacial Engineering.

• Students involved in computational studies have access to the departments own workstations or high-end computer resources through the U of M Supercomputer Institute

Contact

For more information on the center, its activities and  job openings,
please contact: