Lehigh Nano for Business 2010 Conference
0 Comments Published by Sean June 25th, 2010 in Science, Work.On May 26, 2010, I attended the Lehigh Nanotech Network’s Nano for Business 2010 Conference. I was invited to speak as a panelist on the “Health and Safety” panel. Below is a picture of me on the panel with Frank E. Ehrenfeld III, Laboratory Director, nanoTEM and IATL, ASTM D56.03 and Mike McGuiness, Principal, Haskill Toxicology Laboratories, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. I’m in the middle.
More information about the conference can be found here.
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One of my company newsletter articles in EMPFasis, a monthly Navy deliverable from the Electronics Manufacturing Productivity Facility or EMPF, was reprinted in the April 2010 issue of “Printed Circuit Design & Fab / Circuits Assembly”.
Other articles that I wrote have covered:
- Problems related to surface finish quality that lead to solderability issues.
- Cleanliness and corrosion mitigation in electronics bare boards and assemblies (the one reprinted in Circuits Assembly).
- Non-destructive test methods that are used to analyze a variety of characteristics of interest in electronics.
- Five types of conformal coatings used to protect electronics assemblies.
- Methods of detecting contamination on electronics materials.
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I am going to be adding some more information soon on the following topics on which I have worked.
- Computational Chemistry
- DFT calculations for HOMO-LUMO band gaps, energy levels, and electron cloud visualization.
- Molecular Modeling
- Organic Synthesis
- Reaction Mechanisms
- Polymer Synthesis
- Kinetics
- Instrumental Analysis
- Examples of the types of results/data in the form of concentrations, graphs, images, spectra, etc.
- Summary of each of the techniques and their operation.
- Struture-Property Relationships
- Molecular Design & Engineering
- Photophysics: FRET, fluorescence, phosphorescence, Forster & Dexter ET, red shift, blue shift, EDGs, EWGs, cross-conjugation
- Lanthanide complexes: synthesis, photophysics, J states, f orbital transitions
- Polymeric supercapacitors, energy storage, batteries
- Electrochemistry
- Electropolymerization
- Carbon nanotube synthesis and functionalization
- Self-Assembled Monolayers (SAMs)
- Chemical Vapor Deposition
- Atomic Layer Deposition
- Sensors
- Surface Science
- Lithography
- Corrosion Mitigation
- Metallurgy, Solderability, Intermetallics
- Failure Analysis
- Conformal Coatings
- Statement of Teaching Philosophy
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Nanoparticles of iron compounds + a colloidal solution of water, oil and a surfactant = Awesome ferrofluid video.
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When a magnetic field is applied to the fluid, the particles of iron compound inside align to it creating a fluid solid. Click here for more information.
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Scientists Turn Skin Cells Into Retinal Cells
0 Comments Published by Sean August 27th, 2009 in Science.“The retina is a lush layered field of tissue lining the back of the eye, a complex mix of specialized cells that serve as a transfer station where light signals are absorbed and sent to the brain to be translated into sight.
Researchers from University of Wisconsin, Madison have now created these unique retina cells from lowly skin cells — opening the possibility that patients with damaged or diseased retinas might some day be able to grow themselves a cure from their own skin.”
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