Sandia's Shinn to Address Nano-Network

Neal D. Shinn, user program manager for the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) at Sandia National Laboratories, will discuss how CINT can help faciliate the commercialization of nanotech products at a forum on Sept. 13.

 

The event takes place from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, at the University of New Mexico's Science and Technology Park in Albuquerque.  It is being organized by the New Mexico Nano-Network, which formed last January.

 

"Nano-Net provides a forum for investors, technology developers and scientists to come together to network and dialogue about strategies and opportunities to push for the commercialization of nanotechnologies," says Katie Szczepaniak, an analyst with the Wasatch Venture Fund.  "Speakers like Neal Shinn helps guide that process."

 

The Department of Energy inaugurated the opening of two CINT facilities in August, which included a 96,000-square-foot center at Sandia in Albuquerque and a 35,000-square-foot facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

CINT is one of five DOE, nanotechnology, user-facility centers being built nationally to support the synthesis, processing, fabrication and analysis of nanscale materials.

The other facilities include the Center for Nanophase Materials Science at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboartory and the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratories in New York.  The latter two are still under construction.