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October Monthly Meeting - October 19, 2000 Embassy Suites, Blue Ash Sponsored by Cognis Corporation Featured Speaker
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October Monthly Meeting - October 19, 2000 Embassy Suites, Blue Ash Sponsored by Cognis Corporation Featured Speaker
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Program
| 5:30 - 6:00 pm | Registration ($12) and Social (OPEN BAR) |
| 6:00 - 7:00 pm | Featured Speaker: Professor Marc Madou, Ohio State University
"Merging of Fluidics and Informatics" |
| 7:00 - 8:00 pm | 2000/2001 Kick-off Reception
Mixer with Hors d’ oeuvres and Open Bar "Don’t miss an ideal setting to get reconnected with all of your ACS colleagues.” Professor Madou will be available during this time for discussion. |
The Embassy Suites restaurant will be available for dining. Please make reservations with them directly if you would like to stay for dinner. Phone: 733-8900.
Reception Reservations: Call the section answering line at (513) 622-3353 or e-mail cintacs.im@pg.com Include your name (complete with correct spelling), phone number and affiliation. Please specify if this is your first Cincinnati ACS meeting when making your reservation. All reservations must be received by noon, Monday, October 16. If you have any difficulties, please call Ms. Debbie Lewis at (513) 622-3353. As a reminder, if you decide you must miss a meeting after you have made reservations, please call to cancel. If you do not cancel, the Section will have to charge you because it will have been charged by the hotel. Payment will be received at the door. Guests are always welcome; emeritus, unemployed, new, and student members are half price.
Directions:
Embassy Suites Hotel, 4554 Lake Forest Dr., Blue Ash
From I-71, take Exit 15 (Pfeiffer Road), head west on Pfeiffer Road two blocks to Reed Hartman Highway. Turn right (north) on Reed Hartman, turn left on to Lake Forest Dr.
From I-275, take the Reed Hartman Exit, head south on Reed Hartman about two miles, take a right onto Lake Forest Dr.
About the Speaker
Dr. Madou holds an endowed chair at the Ohio State University (OSU) where he is a Professor in Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering. He also directs the Center for Industrial Sensors and Measurements (CISM) - an NSF Center. His expertise is in applying miniaturization techniques to chemical and biological sensors and sensor systems. Madou received his Ph.D. in Semiconductor Electrochemistry at the Solid-State Physics Laboratory, Rijksuniversiteit, Ghent, Belgium. He was Director and founder of the Micromachining Center at SRI International, a visiting Miller Professor at UC Berkeley and President of Teknekron Sensor Development Corporation (TSDC) before joining OSU.
Professor Madou has conducted sensor research with industrial applications such as automotive sensors e.g., on an oil degradation monitor, a planar amperometric oxygen sensor and NOx sensor as well as for environmental applications such as a trace gas analysis system based on a micro-volcano ionization source in an ion mobility chamber. His mechanical sensor research includes AFM tips, pressure sensors and accelerometers. Recently Dr. Madou began a collaboration with the NASA Ames Lab on an alternative electronic nose that combines a small smart gas sensor array (a set of chemiresistors on Flexural Plate Wave Devices) with a modified and simplified gas chromatography.
In basic research Dr. Madou is interested in applying micromaching to explore new physics and chemistry by working with micromachined devices where macro physical laws break down. He is currently testing some of his ideas in this area in gas-electrochemistry and sono-voltammetry. Beyond searching for non-linear effects through micromachining, Dr. Madou is also working on developing smart materials including an attempt to make artificial muscle by combining micromachinging in Si with actuator polymers.
He is the Editor for North-and South-America for Sensors and Actuators
B and Organizer of the yearly San Francisco BioMEMS conference. Dr.
Madou has also written two books in the area of MEMS and BIO-MEMS. and
is an internationally known both academically and industrially as
an expert in this field.
Abstract
The ability to coax a wide variety of materials into smaller and smaller devices is based on progress in a number of research areas, including micromachining, (also MEMS (Micro Electromechanical Systems)), nanomachining, biomimetics and nanochemistry as well as smart materials. These are more than nineties' buzzwords, competing for popular press and research dollars, this jargon zoo, summarized best as the Science of Miniaturization,' holds real potential for groundbreaking new discoveries and applications. In this presentation we review research strategies and explore the potential for further innovation in devices featuring nanoscale dimensions. Emphasis is on biological and chemical applications. Examples discussed are C(arbon)-MEMS, responsive drug delivery systems using polymeric reversible valves, a modular beyond batch' fabrication method for biosensor arrays and a compact disc (CD) based fluidic platform. The latter concerns a new fluidic platform merging fluidics with informatics.
Formatted and uploaded March 16, 2001 by acs@www.che.uc.edu
