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Planning Grant Meeting
Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems (CEHMS)

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Dates:
August 19 – 20, 2009

Times:
7:00am - 8:30pm (August 19th)
8:00am - 2:30pm (August 20th)

Location:
The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA (Website: http://www.innatvirginiatech.com/)

Day 1, August 19, 2009


7:30am

Participant Registration

7:30

8:15am

Breakfast and social time

8:15

8:35am

Welcome remarks: Don Leo, Virginia Tech; Bruce Gnade, UT Dallas

8:35

9:15am

Vision and Capabilities of the Center
Dan Inman, Stephen Foulger, Bruce Gnade

9:15

10:00am

NSF I/UCRC presentation: I/UCRC Program Director 

10:00

10:15am

Break

10:15

12:15pm

Project Presentations (Virginia Tech)
Mechanical Energy Harvesting: Modeling and Experiments – Alper Erturk
Multimodal Energy Harvesting – Shashank Priya
Multimodal electrical interfaces – Dong Ha
Novel materials for photovoltaics and thermoelectrics – Louis Guido / Scott Huxtable

Electrical Energy Storage – Victoria Soghomonian

12:15

1:00pm

Lunch

1:00

3:45pm

Project Presentations (UT Dallas)
Low resistance contacts to BiTe
Efficient energy harvesting from multiple sources – Dinesh Bhatia
New molecules for organic photovoltaics – Mihaela Iovu

Project Presentations (Clemson University)
Synthesis of Light-Harvesting Elements for Organic Electronics – Rhett C. Smith
New synthetic routes to photo-voltaic and light emissive polymers and composites – Dennis W. Smith
Device Designs and electrical properties in printed displays – Sung-O Kim
Developing multifunctional colloids and their conversion into devices, Stephen Foulger

Viability of commercial printing technology for functional device production, Chip Tonkin

3:45

4:00pm

Break

4:15 5:15pm Industry Workshop (involves discussion of projects & company needs NOT addressed in the above Project Presentations)

5:15

6:00pm

Review of evening and Day 2 activities (Dan Inman)


6:30 pm Technical Forum and Social: Poster session, reception, etc.


Day 2, August 20, 2009

7:30

8:00am

Arrival and Breakfast

8:00

9:30am

Feedback from Industry Workshop (Industry Moderated)

9:30

11:00am

LIFE FORM review and Discussion – NSF moderated

11:00 11:30am NSF Closed Session with Industry

11:30

12:00pm

Summary & Closing Remarks (Virginia Tech, UT Dallas, Clemson)

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