The lecture would be either given by Dr. Craig Horne or Dr.Shiv Chiruvolu.

NanoGram Corporation

This talk will provide an overview of NanoGram's platform nanomaterials synthesis and deposition process as well as the high-value components enabled by these unique technologies. NanoGram Corporation is a world leader in the development of innovative nano-structured materials and process technologies for communications, electronics and energy applications. The Company's mission is to apply its unique technologies in the advancement of existing products and the creation of fundamentally new products across a wide range of industries. NanoGram's platform process technologies use industrial CO2 lasers in creating a high-energy chemical reaction zone where raw materials are combined at the atomic level in measured ratios to form precise crystal structures and compositions at high speed and high volume. NanoGram's laser pyrolysis process contrasts conventional methods that either grind materials together or use poorly controlled reaction conditions. NanoGram's technology begins with the design of reactions that are driven by the high-intensity energy of the laser. Raw materials include solids, liquid and gases, which are delivered to the laser reactor at measured concentrations and process conditions to control end product composition. As a result, NanoGram can produce the widest range of end product compounds and utilize a full complement of lower cost, commodity chemicals as feedstocks. This allows NanoGram to build precise compositions in nano-scale from the atomic level, yielding a wide range of crystalline nanomaterials including complex metal oxides and sulfides for energy storage, carbide coatings and catalysts, sulfide phosphors, nitride abrasives and highly pure elemental metal alloys. The unique materials and deposited layers have been used in a broad range of applications including electronics, electrochemical energy conversion and storage, optical devices, photovoltaics, photonic devices, and catalysis.