Bridging the Gap: The NYSTAR Partnerships
Kathleen J. Wise
NYSTAR
Albany , NY
Director of Programs
Abstract
Since its founding, NYSTAR has worked to fulfill its obligations under the Jobs 2000 Act to harness New York’s intellectual strengths to create and retain high-technology related jobs and generate economic development. NYSTAR does not simply fund science; we fund innovation. NYSTAR’s mission continues to be making New York a national leader in high-tech economic development using our academic research and non-profit facilities as the engines for harnessing this growth. The high-tech economic development results from partnerships among businesses, universities and NYSTAR. Our partnerships with businesses are essential for harnessing the technology advances that are being discovered every day.
Building Strong Industry-Academic Relationships
Dr. John Brahms
Avon Products, Inc.
Suffern , New York
Senior Manager – Physical Sciences
Abstract
Because of the increasingly fast pace of technological innovation, product life-cycles in many industries are becoming more compressed. Companies must look to many sources both internally and externally to sustain a pipeline of new product innovation and find the next market discontinuity. In academia, the translation of fundamental scientific breakthroughs to practical technological application is happening at an increasingly rapid pace. This has created many opportunities for academic and industrial researchers to work together to solve problems of commercial relevance.
However, there are some important differences between industrial and academic research that must be understood to ensure fruitful collaboration. This collaboration can take one of several forms. Choosing the right type of collaborative relationship is also critically important to a successful outcome. This presentation will discuss some of the opportunities and potential challenges in developing successful industry-academic collaborations.
Pilocarbosilanes as Ceramic Precursors and Low-K Dielectric Materials
Dr. Leonard Interrante
RPI Polymer Center
Troy , NY
Professor of Chemistry
Abstract
Our efforts over the past 20 years on the synthesis and study of new polycarbosilanes has led to the development of a commercial precursor for SiC that is being used, among other things, to fabricate friction materials (brakes) for motorcycles and other land vehicles [1]. These efforts will be described along with the results of recent efforts, involving the sol gel processing of alkoxy-substituted hyperbranched polycarbosilanes and the ADMET polymerization of dibutenyldisilacyclobutane monomers, to prepare polycarbosiloxane and polycarbosilane films that show considerable potential for application as low-k materials in integrated circuits [2].
[1] Starfire Systems, Inc. Saratoga Technology and Energy Park, 10 Hermes Rd., Suite 100, Malta, NY 12020 USA; http://www.starfiresystems.com/
[2] N. Lu and L.V. Interrante, U.S. Patent No. 6.809,041; Z. Wu, et. al., Macromolecules, 37(14), 5257-5264 (2004).
The Role of the NYS Science and Technology Center in Technology Commercialization
Prof. Theodore Hagelin
New York State Science and Technology Law Center
Syracuse, NY
Director, Professor of Law
ABSTRACT
This talk will address the role of the NYS Science and Technology Law Center in the technology commercialization process with special attention to technical, market and legal research on development of early-stage technologies. Examples of research projects undertaken by the NYS STLC will be presented to illustrate the inherent, interdisciplinary nature of technology commercialization.
Polymeric Materials Leading Innovation in the Filtration Industry
Dr. Brian Muellers
Pall Life Sciences
Port Washington , NY
VP of Media R&D
ABSTRACT
The filtration industry was originally built on the foundation of inorganic materials such as sintered ceramics and metals and natural polymeric materials such as cellulosic fibers. In the past 30 years, however, engineered polymeric materials have moved to the forefront of filtration capabilities. Early developments focused on the use of polymers in the form of which they were synthesized, for example, nylon membranes, polyether sulfone membranes, and polypropylene fibers. As the technical challenges and opportunities have advanced, the ability to highly engineer and modify the starting polymer has led to significant innovations in filtration especially in life sciences applications. Among those discussed are diagnostic materials, membranes for biotechnology and chromatography, fibrous materials for prion removal, and sorbent resins for proteomic research.
IBM Innovations – Collaborative Technological Excellence
Dr. Geraud Dubois
IBM Almaden Research Center
San Jose , CA
Senior Engineer/Scientist
ABSTRACT
In the first part of this talk, I will present the research conducted at IBM in the Advanced Organic Materials Group in collaboration with different Universities.
In the second part of this talk, I will emphasize the need for new materials as low-k insulators for copper-back-end-of-the-line (BEOL) processes, as well as the challenges that the semiconductor industries are facing for the integration of these materials and the potential solutions.
Combinatorial Research on Nanostructured Materials: A Successful Model for Federal, Academic and Industrial Collaborations
Dr. Alamgir Karim
Polymers Division, NIST
Gaithersburg , MD
Group Leader, Nanostructured Materials
ABSTRACT
Investigations of new materials have traditionally been labor intensive and time consuming endeavors. High-throughput and combinatorial methods unlock novel approaches to investigations of new materials, allowing the materials community to carry out studies that promise greater efficiency to materials discovery and optimization. Combinatorial methods have attracted much industrial, academic and governmental interest for which NIST established the NIST Combinatorial Methods Center (NCMC www.nist.gov/combi) for development of advanced techniques for combinatorial materials property measurements and characterization. Several fruitful collaborations have resulted in the area of combinatorial methods with NIST's industrial, academic and other government agency partners. On-going focus in the area of nanostructured materials in collaboration with NIST's partners are directed towards emerging nanotechnologies that have important ramifications for various applications in nano-electronics, photonics, nanofluidics and biosystems. These include developing novel approaches to control block copolymer thin film ordering, creating new platforms for investigating defects and interactions in self-assembly processes suitable for nanoparticles, colloidal and polymeric structures, adapting nanoimprinting for quantifying robustness of nanostructures and developing non-destructive scattering methods such as CD-SAXS for 3-D characterization of nanostructures. This talk will focus on some of the successful and ongoing collaborations in the area of nanostructured materials, for instance, in collaboration with IBM, a novel high-throughput technique known as SIEBIMM has attracted recent attention, developed to measure the modulus of nanoscale thin film coatings.
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