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 This workshop, sponsored by the American Carbon Society, will be held on May 22-25, 2005, at The Pennsylvania State University campus, and we anticipate that it will draw 150 to 200 people from 20 to 40 universities and 20 to 40 industries in the United States. This workshop will focus on research frontiers pertaining to aromatically and tetrahedrally bonded carbon materials for applications in energy, environmental, electrochemical, electrical, nuclear, medical, and structural arenas. The interdisciplinary workshop will draw participants from numerous fields including carbon scientists, chemical engineers, environmental engineers, materials scientists, chemists, physicists, manufacturers, small business owners, economists, health and safety specialists, and sustainability planners. We are encouraging speakers and poster presenters to devote at least one-third to one-half of their presentation to future research and development needs, while the balance of the presentations can portray the speaker's exciting research to date.

We will present a summary of this workshop to the American Carbon Society, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and other prominent national entities. This summary will be formatted in such a manner that national entities and carbon scientists can draw on this document when mapping future directions for research initiatives. We will also present a summary as a referred paper in the Carbon Journal. Communications at this workshop will engender numerous multi-scientist research proposals, which will be subsequently submitted to funding entities. Also, interactions of researchers and manufacturers will unleash new lines of carbon-based products, which will help the U.S. economy.

Workshop Objectives

  1. Gather together prominent carbon/environmental scientists, engineers, and planners from both U.S. universities and U.S. industries, to probe the research frontiers that pertain to using carbon-based materials with aromatic or tetrahedral bonding for achieving a more environmentally friendly, energy-efficient, and competitively resilient future.
  2. Maintain research/development momentum within the United States for the carbon materials arena, so as to keep the United States at the forefront of this future mainstay of world economies.
  3. Prepare a summary of documents and submit them as a Carbon Journal publication and a report. These will highlight the frontier visions and important sentiments of workshop authors.
  4. Provide a pleasant and convenient setting for this gathering; nurture productive discourse, output, and continuing collaborations among participants; facilitate collaborations that yield subsequent multidisciplinary proposals to national funding entities, etc.; and spawn new research teams and new carbon-based U.S. products.


Who Should Attend

Researchers and persons in the areas of energy, environmental, electrochemical/electrical, nuclear, medical, and structural arenas who are engaged with solid and/or porous carbons that are aromatically or tetrahedrally bonded are encouraged to attend. We will also discuss the preparation and characterization of nanocarbons for the above uses and the economics, health/safety, and sustainability of carbon materials and nanocarbons.

 
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