Nanoengineering Group Involved in a Number of Congress Events

ASME’s NanoEngineering for Energy and Sustainability (NEES) Group developed a number of activities for this year’s ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, including technical sessions, speaker presentations, a special panel discussion, and the annual meeting of the group’s executive committee.

The NEES Group will take part in nearly 20 sessions across five technical tracks at the 2014 ASME Congress, which will be held Nov. 14-20 at the Palais Des Congres convention center in Montreal, Canada.

The sessions — included in the Congress’ Advanced Manufacturing, Energy, Fluids Engineering Systems and Technologies, Materials and Micro- and Nano-Systems Engineering and Packaging tracks — will examine cutting-edge advances in areas such as nanomanufacturing; material processing of flexible electronic devices and solutions; electrochemical energy conversion and storage; fuel cell systems design and application; nanomaterials and nanostructures for energy applications.

The NEES Group has also organized several invited talks taking place from Tuesday through Thursday. Four of these presentations will feature world-renowned scientists speaking on topics related to nanomanufacturing: “Bottom-Up/Top-Down Hybrid Fabrication of Functional Nanomaterials,” by Inkyu Park of the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, in session 2-2-1 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 18; “Fabrication and Applications Highly Dense Ceramic Thick Films by Room Temperature Powder Spray,” by Dong-Soo Park of the Korean Institute of Metals and Materials, in session 2-2-2 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. on Nov. 18; “Multi-Dimensional Filler Design for Flexible/Stretchable Conductive Composites,” by Seunghyun Baik from South Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University, in session 2-2-3 from 9:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Nov. 19; and “Towards Manufacturing of Ultimate Carbon Nanotube Materials,” by John Hart of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in session 2-2-4 from 7:45 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. on Nov. 20.

Marriner Merrill (second from left), secretary of the NEES Executive Committee, at the 2013 Micro and Nano Forum, where he served as a judge.

Two additional plenaries — “Low Platinum Loading, Platinum Alloys, and Core-Shell Catalysts Manufacturing by Scalable Flame-Base Process” by Radenka Maric of the University of Connecticut and “Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: Mechanics of Compaction of Pharmaceutical Solids” by Alberto Cuitino from Rutgers University — will take place Tuesday, Nov. 18, from 9:45 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

The NEES Group will also host a special panel session, "Nanomanufacturing: Successful, Scalable, and Sustainable at the Nanometer Scale," which is based on the theme of a successful workshop the group held in August. The panel session will be held Nov. 18 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. The group will also convene its annual committee meeting on Nov. 19 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. All Congress attendees are invited to the meeting, where the committee will welcome the new NEES chair, Ronggui Yang, as well as its new vice-chair, Samit Roy.

Congress attendees should check the printed program included in their registration packets for information on room assignments for technical sessions, panel sessions and other Congress activities. To find out more about the various NEES-related sessions at the 2014 Congress in Montreal, visit www.asmeconferences.org/congress2014, or contact Marriner Merrill, secretary of the NEES Executive Committee, by e-mail at marriner.merrill@nrl.navy.mil.