NANOSCALE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The aim of this workshop in Portoconte, within the framework of the Elba-Max Planck Forum on Nanoscale Science and Technology occurring yearly since 1999 (see www.fondazione –elba.org), is the dissemination and development of nanobioscience and synchrotron radiation. The emphasis is on current and future directions that are perceived to have impacts on industry and also provide societal benefits.
The modus operandi of the Forum is a discussion and development of themes of current relevance and concerns. The aim of the presentation is to introduce backgrounds, areas of expertise, and areas of interests and concerns to the participants at large.
The style of the presentations will be informal and open to discussion.

Chairmen: Claudio Nicolini and Peter Fratzl

Organizing Committee: Chairman: Christian Riekel Peter Laggner Oskar Paris

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FORUM SCEDULE

Thursday 9 September 2004

17:00 Introduction	Claudio Nicolini
Welcome Drink
18:00 Hanoch Daniel Wagner	Mechanics at a smaller scale: From carbon nanotubes to bone
18:45 Thomas Pfohl	Soft matter microfluidics

Friday 10 September 2004

9:00 Christian David	X-ray nano-optics
9:45 Himadri Shikhar Gupta	Watching bone and connective tissue deform at the molecular level
Coffee BREAK
11:00 Heinz Amenitsch	In-situ tensile testing of blood vessels
11:30 Alessia Cedola	High spatial resolution analysis of newly formed bone at biomaterial interface
12:00 Helga C. Lichtenegger	Hierarchically structured silica nanocomposites
17:00-19:00	Open Discussion

Saturday 11 September 2004

FIBROUS MATERIALS
Chair: Christian Riekel

9:00 Tim Wess	Supramolecular organisation in collagen and fibrillin
9:45 Manfred Burghammer	Instrumental aspects of synchrotron radiation nano-beam experiments
Coffee BREAK
11:00 Richard Davies	High performance polymers
11:30 Martin Müller	Mechanical properties of cellulose fibres and wood investigated with synchrotron radiation
12:00 Herwig Peterlik	X-ray microfocus experiments to determine the structure of single carbon fibres
12.30 Plinio Innocenzi	Self-assembling studied in-situ by saxssynchrotron radiation
17:00-19:00 Round Table	European Synchrotron Sources & programs Chairm: Åke Kvick

8.30 Jan Pieter Abrahams	Meeting the challenges of nanocrystallogenesis
9:15 Stephan Roth	Micro-GISAXS Instrumentation and applications
9.45 Claudio Nicolini	Protein Nanocrystallography I. Definition and early steps by scattering and diffraction
10:15 Eugenia Pechkova	Protein Nanocrystallography: II Crystal structure induced by nanotemplat
10:45 Gleb Sukhorukov	Multifunctional nanoengineered polymer capsules
Coffee BREAK
12:00 Morten Sommer	Crystallizing proteins using microfluidics
12:30 Bernd Smarsly	Peering into the structure and formation of self-assembled nanocomposite films by GISAXS
13:00 Christian Riekel	Closing

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Day 1 September 9	Day 2 September 10	Day 3 September 11	Day 4 September 12
	X	X	X	9-13 AM
X	X	X		5-7 PM

Details on the optional program will be given upon arrival

A financial contribution of 5000 Euro by the European Community - Research Infrastructure Action under FP6 "Structuring the European Research Area" Programme (through the Integrated Infrastructure Initiative  "Integrating Activity on Synchrotron and Free Electron Laser Science") will be used to offer fellowships to young students participating to the Forum.
 The requests for a burse have to be addressed to Åke Kvick , Christian Riekel , Oskar Paris

The proceedings of 6th Fondazione EL.B.A. - Max Planck Forum 2004 on Nanoscale Science and Technology will be published as special issue of Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. The contribution have to be sent to the guest editor Eugenia Pechkova not later than the October 15, in Word format prepared as described at http://journals.iucr.org/s/services/submitinstructions.html. This link contents also templates for manuscript preparation.

The organizing committee of 6th Fondazione EL.B.A.-Max Planck Forum 2004 would like to inform you that PhD students/Postdocs coming to the meeting should present a Poster, and should also submit a short abstract.
Please submit abstract to , before August 15, 2004
Please ask your students to send also pdf file of their poster to Dr. Eugenia Pechkova before September, 5.
The posters will  be available on the Forum web site during and after the meeting.

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6^th Fondazione EL.B.A.-Max Planck Forum 2004

Invited Participants

Jan Pieter Abrahams, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Netherlands
Heinz Amenitsch, Sincrotrone Elettra Trieste, Italy
Manfred Burghammer, ESRF, Grenoble, France
Alessia Cedola, C.N.R. - Istituto Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Rome, Italy
Richard Davies, ESRF, Grenoble, France
Christian David, Paul Scherrer Institut,  Switzerland
Peter Fratzl, Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany
Plinio Innocenzi, Nanoworld Institute, University of Sassari, Italy
Peter Laggner, Institute of Biophysics, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Åke Kvick ESRF, Grenoble, France
Helga C. Lichtenegger, Institut für Werkstoffkunde und Materialprüfung, Vienna, Austria
Martin Müller Institut für Experimentelle und Angewandte Physik, Kiel, Germany 
Claudio Nicolini, Nanoworld Institute, University of Genova, Italy
Oskar Paris, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany
Eugenia Pechkova, Fondazione EL.B.A., Rome, Italy
Herwig Peterlik, Institute of Materials Physics, University of Vienna, Austria
Thomas Pfohl, Angewandte Physik, University of Ulm, Germany
Christian Riekel, ESRF, Grenoble, France
Stephan Roth, Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (HASYLAB), Germany
Himadri Shikhar Gupta, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
Bernd Smarsly Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
Morten Sommer, Centre for Crystallographic Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Gleb Sukhorukov, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
Hanoch Daniel Wagner, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Tim Wess, Cardiff University, UK

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