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Harvard, MIT, UC Santa Barbara and Museum of Science BostonSandia, Oak Ridge and Brookhaven National Labs

TU Delft, Uni Basel, NEST, Lund Univ and Univ of Tokyo

R.M. Westervelt Director, R. Graham Asst DirectorN. Brave Center Coordinator

Science of Nanoscale Systems and theirDevice Applications

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Research Innovations (2001-11)

2001 2011

Single moleculeSET (Park)

SPM images of electron waves(Westervelt & Heller)

Nano barbell (Bawendi)

Magnetic bead ‘flagella’ (Stone)

CaCO3 grown on nanoposts (Aizenberg)

SPM images of QDs inQHE (Ashoori)

Engineer Cell Environment(Whitesides, Aizenberg)

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Ag plasmonic nanocavityfor PbS nanocrystals (Hu)

High conductance HU written in VO2 filmby an SPM tip (Hoffman & Ramanathan)

RF C-band microfluidicparticle sorter (Crozier)

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Multidisciplinary and Diverse Students & Postdocs

56%

44%

Male

Female 18%

82%

Under-representedGroups

US averagesEngineering 5.9%Phys. Science 6.2%Med/Life Sci. 14.1%Bio Science 9.0%

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Where are they Now?NSEC grad students and postdocs (2001-2010)

36 Faculty PositionsBrandeis … Univ of Wisconsin, Madison

29 Postdoctorial AssociatesBoston Univ Medical School … Yale

34 Industry, Government, and Research StaffBenet Laboratory … Unilever

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NSEC Infrastructure (2001-2010)

NISE Network

Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS) facilities inside the newLaboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering (LISE) (2007)

2001 2010

Talking Nano DVDs

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LISE / CNS facilities connect Chemistry,Physics and School of Eng & Appl Sciences

Laboratory forIntegrated Scienceand Engineering(LISE) and Center forNanoscale Systems(CNS) centered inbetween the Schoolof Engineering andApplied Sciences(SEAS) laboratories,the Dept of Chemistryand Chemical Biology(Chemistry) and theDept of Physics(Physics).

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National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS) at HarvardOne of 14 members

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Museum of Science, Boston (Carol Lynn Alpert)Public Engagement in

Nanoscale Science and Engineering

An informed & engaged public

Sharing knowledge;building capacity

for nano education

Researchers skilled in science communication

Current Science & TechnologyMuseum of Science, Boston

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NSEC Students at the Museum

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Industrial Innovation23 Startups by NSEC Faculty (2001-2010)

Arsenal Medical to Si Energy Systems440+ High Tech jobs created

30 Companies Licensed NSEC Researcher Intellectual Property (2001-2010)180+ Licenses on NSEC Researcher IP (2001-2010)Agilent Technologies to Vista Therapeutics, includes

licenses by NSEC startups$6.8M total licensing fees (2001-2010)

43 Industrial CollaborationsAdvanced Energy Consortium to Zena Technologies

60 Connections with Industry & other SectorsAdvanced Diamond Technologies to Zena Technologies

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Startup Companies from NSECResearch since 2001 - examples

• Arsenal Medical (Whitesides and Roberts)– Therapeutics based on "BioActive" nanofiber and

foam composites for local drug delivery.

• Claros (Whitesides)– Claros builds portable instruments that move in vitro

medical diagnostic tests from hospital labs to thepoint of care.

• Diagnostics for All (Whitesides)– Nonprofit organization that is producing paper

microfluidic systems to diagnose disease.

• Endolumina (Westervelt and Thompson)– Wireless biosensors for the GI tract based on RFID

technology.

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• Enexra (Pfeffer & Lichtensteiger - postdocs)– Technology that cuts the cost for Si solar cells.

• Nano Terra (Whitesides and Roberts)– Soft lithography, self assembly & microfluidics for

smart materials, flexible electronics and displays,fuel cells, batteries and solar cells.

• QD Vision (Bawendi)– Display and lighting products based on

semiconductor quantum dots.• Qu Nano (Samuelson)

– Nanowire LED “light bulbs”with high efficiency, longlife and low cost.

• Si Energy Systems LLC (Ramanathan)– Solid-oxide fuel cells on a Si chip, that generate

power from gaseous hydrocarbon fuel.

Startup Companies (2)

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High-Tech Job Formationfrom NSEC Startup Companies

Company JobsArsenal Medical 30Cambridge Nanotech 25Capsum 12Claros 10CoolEdge Lighting 8Diagnostics for All 5Fluidigm 90GnuBIO 2HabSel 2

Company JobsIgen 18Minerva 20NanoTerra 25Paper Diagnostics 1QD Vision 60QuNano 17Raindance Tech 70SiOnyx 15Surface Logix 30

440 Jobs Created

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International Collaborations

NSE Conference 20112012 FNST Workshop at Lund Univ, Sweden

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WebsitesNSEC.Harvard.edu

CNS.fas.Harvard.edu

NNIN.org

MOS.org/nano

NISEnet.org