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President\'s Message

Nanotechnology Applications to Chemical and Biological Defense
 Sunday, March 2, 2008
1:00 p.m., Room 241

Organizer:

Troy Alexander, U.S. Army Research Laboratory

Speakers:

1:00    Emerging and New Nanotechnology for Chemical and Biological Defense  STEPHEN LEE, U.S. Army Research Office

1:20    Spectral Reproducibility in Surface-Enhanced Spectroscopies  NAOMI HALAS, Rice University

1:40    Multi-layered SERS Substrate Geometries and Their Application to Chemical Nano-imaging Probes for Biological Agent Detection  BRIAN CULLUM, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

2:00    Studies of Electron Beam Lithographically Prepared Pillar-Silver Nano-Discs as SERS Substrates  MICHAEL SEPANIAK, University of Tennessee

2:20    Recess

2:35    Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) for Rapid and Sensitive Virus Detection  JEREMY D DRISKELL, University of Georgia, Richard A Dluhy, Yiping Zhao, Ralph A Tripp

2:55    UK Chemical and Biological Defense Applications of Nanotechnology  NICOLA E CANT, Dstl

3:15    SERS Technology Solutions for Rapid Trace Level Detection of Chemical and Biological Agents  CATERINA M NETTI, D3 Technologies Ltd, Karen Shaw, Ewen Smith, Karen Faulds, Duncan Graham

3:35    Surface-Enhanced Raman Chemical Imaging of Bacteria  STEVEN CHRISTESEN, US Army Edgewood Chem Bio Center, Jason Guicheteau, Ashish Tripathi

Overview:

Nanotechnology is rapidly maturing as an area of vigorous research and is arguably the “new frontier of science.” This contributed session will focus on applications of nanotechnology towards development of rapid, reliable sensing approaches which may be used for determination of high consequence Chemical and Biological Threat Agents. Demonstrations of Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) for trace level identification of Chemical and Biological Threat Agents will be an integral part of this session.