Free Seminar, Thursday, May 22, 2008, 12:00-1:00 pm, Lecture Room MCB 3-120. Title: "Electron Tomography Provides a New View into Cells" – Co-Sponsored by: The Department of Genetics, Cell Biology & Development, the Materials Research Science Engineering Center (MRSEC), and CBS Imaging Center. Host: Dr. Richard Linck (linck001@umn.edu).

Free workshop, Friday, May 23, 8:30 -5:00 in Walter Library Room 402: "Cryo-Electron TEM and Tomography of Nanomaterials"
To Register for workshop, please email Dr. Alon McCormick (mccormic@umn.edu).
Full Workshop Schedule.

These workshops are co-sponsored by: MRSEC, Academic Health Center, and Nanostructural Materials Processes (NMP).

IPRIME's Biomaterials and Pharmaceutical Materials (BPM) program and its Microstructured Polymers (MP) program are presenting a workshop on Jan. 15 titled "Synthetic Biomaterials and Biointerfaces". In conjunction with this workshop, the University of Minnesota Characterization Facility will be holding a lab demo on Jan. 16 titled "Nanoscale Probing of Biomaterials and Biointerfaces".

Characterization Facility Lab Demo on "Nanoscale Probing of Biomaterials and Biointerfaces"
Cost: $250 for IPRIME Members (payment by check or Purchase Order directly to Characterization Facility. To arrange payment, contact Constance at 612-626-7594 or by e-mail to charfac@umn.edu)

Laboratory demonstrations and attendee sample analysis using various instruments and techniques: Scanning probe microscopy and nanomechanical testing, confocal Raman microscopy, electron microscopy, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry

IPRIME's Coating Process Fundamentals (CPF) program and its Organic Optoelectronic Interfaces (OEI) program are jointly presenting a workshop on Jan. 16 titled "Materials, Devices and Coating Processes for Organic Electronics".

Free Workshop on Electron Backscatter Diffraction

The University of Minnesota Characterization Facility and Oxford Instruments are sponsoring a free workshop on Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) on October 25 & 26, 2006. Scott Sitzman, Applications Scientist specializing in EBSD at Oxford Instruments, will present a talk entitled "What EBSD Can Do For You" at 9am on October 25th in 210 Amundson Hall. The Characterization Facility at Shepherd Lab will offer an open shop for anyone who would like to bring a sample and try EBSD to see what data can be generated. The HKL Nordlys II detector with Channel 5 Software for EBSD analysis on a JEOL 6500F Field-Emission SEM will be demonstrated both days.

EBSD is a technique that allows crystallographic information to be obtained from samples in a Scanning Electron Microscope. The information can be used for:

• Texture/preferred crystallographic orientation analysis
• Failure analysis, including:
• Analysis of grain boundary and crystallographic orientation control of crack propagation path
• Orientation determination of grains at crack initiation site
• Grain size analysis
• Grain boundary characterization
• Strain analysis
• Phase identification by crystallography

• Metallurgy
• Ceramics / General Materials Science
• Aerospace
• Electronics
• Medical Products
• Geology

Kara Noack
Oxford Instruments
248-563-2329
noack@ma.oxinst.com

IPRIME is hosting a Research Forum on Biomedical Applications of Functional Polymers on March 9, 2006 in the Campus Club within Coffman Memorial Union on the University of Minnesota Campus. Please e-mail your questions or registration interest to iprime@umn.edu by March 6, 2006. Click here for the Schedule of Events.

IPRIME Coating Process Fundamentals Program presented a workshop on Ordering and Orientation in Particulate Coatings on April 5, 2005 on the University of Minnesota campus. This was a participatory "working shop." Please contact Lorraine Francis for further information and be sure to check out the Schedule for the Workshop here.

We would like to thank the IPRIME members who participated in this Nanocomposites Workshop. This one-day event concentrated on polymer melt dispersion of layered silicates. The workshop focused on controlling dispersion to enhance properties, especially modulus, strength, dimensional control and barrier performance. Mixing strategies, layered silicate synthesis and surface functionalization, polymer function and molecular weight were also addressed.

This was a great active, informal "working shop," with lots of discussion in which all attendees participated. We are keen to hear from IPRIME member companies about application issues or problems faced in designing useful nanocomposites even after the workshop.

If you have questions about the workshop, please contact Bob Lewis at lewis@cems.umn.edu. Please include your name, company, phone, and e-mail address.

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Wrinkling and Surface Texturing Workshop - L.E. Scriven - University of Minnesota

• "Wrinkling in multilayer coatings" --Peter Price, 3M
• "Texturing in vinyl heat seal coatings applied to foil - Is it mechanistically surface tension, induced patterns per application, non-uniform drying, and/or?" --Brian K. Muehl, Alcan Packaging
• “Sharkskin – wrinkling? in fast-drying solvent-borne particulate coatings” --Takeaki Tsuda, Dai Nippon
• "Siloxane abrasion resistant coatings for ophthalmic lenses and factors affecting surface cosmetic" --Hannah Vu, Vision-Ease Lens Company
• “Mechanism of wrinkle formation in curing coatings” --Soumendra K. Basu, UMN
• “Surface wrinkling by two-step curing using hybrid isocyanate cross-linkers” --Bill Fristad, Henkel Corporation
• “When wrinkled coatings go bad - stories from the coating line” --Veronica Reichert, Rohm and Haas
• “Star-bursts formation and wrinkles in polyester based powder coatings” --Paul West, Sun Polymers

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Scientific Research Needs in Printing Technology

The purpose of this workshop was to catalyze discussion about scientific issues where more fundamental research is needed in order to significantly advance printing technology. Applications of interest include the emerging areas of plastic electronics, microfluidics, and photonics, as well as traditional ones such as printed mass media, decoration, and, labeling. Printing technologies of interest include gravure, lithography/offset, flexographic, inkjet, and others.

• Satish Kumar and Dan Frisbie - Overview of Research Needs in Printing Technology
• Michael Chabinyc (PARC) - Fabrication of Polymeric Thin-Film Transistors for Displays
• John Rogers (University of Illinois) - Printing Techniques for Nanofabrication and Applications in Electronics and Photonics
• Krishna Kalyanasundara (Motorola) - Printed Organic Electronics: The Low Cost Semiconductor Fab>
• Blake Simmons (Sandia National Labs) - Polymer Replication and Assembly of Microfluidic Devices Using Hot Embossing and Injection Molding
• Mike Rudolph (DuPont) - Pushing the Quality Envelope in Flexographic Printing
• Tiger Hotta (Dai Nippon Printing) (or other DNP representative) - Issues in Gravure Printing at the World's Largest Printing Company
• Martin Kubik (3M)---Factors and Parameters for Successful Implementation of Digital Printing Systems in Manufacturing
• Graham Battersby (Flint Ink) - Fundamental Research Needs in theGraphic Arts: Perspectives of a Major Ink Company

Poster Session:

• >Rick Lenz - Liquid Displacement in Lithographic Printing: Visualization and Modeling
• Mike Owens - Misting in Forward Roll Coating
• Vijay Rajamani - Viscoelasticity and Stress Development in Curing Coatings
• Xiuyan Yin - Flow Visualization Studies in Scaled-up Gravure Grooves and Cells

Micelle Workshop
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Photonics Workshop

This half-day event aims to provide a venue in which our Industrial Partners can learn about photonics research at the University of Minnesota. The program will highlight a few of the exciting research projects currently being pursued on campus. In addition, it will provide an opportunity for informal discussions between academic and industrial researchers on a much broader range of photonics-related topics. Read the agenda of the meeting or read a summary of the research.

Misting Workshop

Christopher Macosko and L. E. "Skip" Scriven, Directors

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