AVS 58th Annual International Symposium and Exhibition
    Nanometer-scale Science and Technology Division Thursday Sessions

Session NS-ThM
Molecular Assembly and Devices

Thursday, November 3, 2011, 8:00 am, Room 203
Moderator: Weiwei Gao, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School


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8:20am NS-ThM2
Chemical Modification and Patterning of Self Assembled Monolayers using Scanning Electron and Ion-Beam Lithography
Maria Perez Roldan, C. Pascual Garcia, G. Marchesini, D. Gilliland, G. Ceccone, P. Colpo, F.J. Rossi, European Commission, JRC Institute for Health And Consumer Protection, Italy
8:40am NS-ThM3
Interlocking Pinwheel Chains Formed by Self Assembly of Aromatic Cyanides
Miaomiao Luo, W. Lu, E. Chu, D. Kim, Z. Cheng, D. Sun, K. Cohen, Y. Zhu, J. Wyrick, University of California, Riverside, T.L. Einstein, University of Maryland, College Park, L. Bartels, University of California, Riverside
9:00am NS-ThM4 Invited Paper
Electronics and Mechanics of Single Molecule Circuits
Latha Venkataraman, Columbia University
9:40am NS-ThM6
Complex Rotation Mechanisms of a Molecular Machine Probed by STM
Heath Kersell, U.G.E. Perera, Y. Zhang, Ohio University, C. Joachim, G. Rapenne, G. Vives, X. Bouju, CNRS, Cemes, France, S.-W. Hla, Ohio University
10:40am NS-ThM9
Self-Assembled Double Strand DNA Monolayers as Spin Filters
Z. Xie, Sidney Cohen, T.Z. Markus, R. Naaman, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot Israel
11:00am NS-ThM10
Controllable Phase Transition Using a Probing Tip
Qing Li, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
11:20am NS-ThM11
How Size, Shape, and Bond Strain Affect Electronic Structure in sp3 Carbon-Cage Molecules
Trevor Willey, J.R.I. Lee, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, L. Landt, D. Wolter, Technische Univ. Berlin, Germany, M. Bagge-Hansen, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, P.R. Schreiner, A.A. Fokin, B.A. Tkachenko, N.A. Fokina, Justus-Liebig Univ. Giessen, Germany, T. van Buuren, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, D. Brehmer, Stanford Synchrotron Light Source
11:40am NS-ThM12
Effect of Acetylene Concentration and Thermal Ramp Rate on the Growth of Spin-capable Carbon Nanotube Forests
Kyung Lee, D. Burk, L.J. Overzet, G.S. Lee, The University of Texas at Dallas