2011 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition
Denver, CO
Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Micro & Nano Technology Society-Wide Forum
Sponsored by the ASME NanoEngineering Council and the National Science Foundation

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Forum Organizing Committee
Daniel Attinger (Iowa State, Chair)
Tony Jun Huang (Penn State, Co-Chair)

Albert van den Berg (Univ. Twente, Netherlands)	Nadine Aubry (Carnegie Mellon)
Axel Guenther (U. Toronto)	Prashanta Dutta (Washington State)
Beth Winkelstein (UPENN)	Vikas Prakash (Case Western Reserve)
Cheng Zhu (Georgia Tech)	Ronggui Yang (U Colorado Boulder)
CJ Kim (UCLA)	Shaochen Chen (UCSD)
Dimos Poulikakos (ETH)	Steve Wereley (Purdue)
Dongqing Li (Univ. Waterloo)	Suresh Garimella (Purdue)
James Liburdy (Oregon State)	Sushanta Mitra (U Alberta)
EH Yang (Stevens)	William P. King (U Illinois Urbana Champaign)
Gang Bao (Georgia Tech)	Xiang Zhang (UC Berkeley)
Gang Chen (MIT)	Zhigang Suo (Harvard)
Haim H. Bau (UPENN)	Liwei Lin (UC Berkeley)
Hang Lu (Georgia Tech)	Kam W. Leong (Duke)
Huajian Gao (Brown)	Jun Ni (Univ. Michigan)
Ishwar Puri (Virginia Tech)

Best Poster Award Recipients:

First Prize
Authors: Christopher Pelzmann, Laxman Saggere
Title: Microassembly via Coordinated Manipulation of Objects Using a Multifingered Micromanipulator
Affiliation: University of Illinois Chicago

Second Prize
Author:  Sruti Chigullapalli
Title:   Modeling of Microstructures Actuation by the Knudsen Thermal Force
Affiliation:  Purdue University

Third Prize
Authors:  Jin Fang, Chris B. Kang
Title:  Thermal Conductivity of Ordered Nanoporous Silicon: Experiments and Molecular Dynamics Study
Affiliation:  UCLA

NanoEngineering Council Award for top NanoEngineering in Energy & Sustainability Poster
Author:  Liping Wang
Title:  Tailoring Thermal Radiative Properties with Magnetic Polaritons in Polar Materials
Affiliation:  Georgia Tech

NanoEngineering Council Award for top NanoEngineering in Medicine & Biology Poster
Authors: Jonghoon Kim, Scott D. Soelberg
Title:  Specific capturing of target bacteria onto microtip surface using a coffee- ring effect
Affiliation:  University of Washington

National Science Foundation C-BET Division Innovation Award
Authors:  Matthew Ooms, David Sinton
Title:  Optofluidic Bioenergy: An evanescent photobioreactor for high density solar fuel generation
Affiliation:  University of Toronto

ASME Materials Division Award
Authors:  Saniya Akhtar LeBlanc, K. E. Goodson
Title:  Electrothermal Characterization of Zinc Oxide Nanowire Contacts
Affiliation:  Stanford University


Honorable Mentions
 
Title: SINGLE-PHASE MICROCHANNEL COOLING OF A STACKED QUAD-CORE PROCESSOR AND DRAM
Authors: Anjali Chauhan, Bahgat Sammakia
Affiliation:  SUNY Binghamton
 
Title: Directional Solvent for Membrane-Free Water Desalination – A Molecular Level Study
Authors: Tengfei Luo, Anurag Bajpayeea
Affiliation: MIT
 
Title: Conception and Fabrication of Silicon Ring Resonator with Piezo-resistive Detection for Force Sensing Applications
Author: Zhuang Xiong, B. Walter
Affiliation: Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology