Joint US-EGYPT Workshop on Advanced Materials
US Participants
Professor I.
A. Aksay
Chem. Eng. and Princeton Materials Institute
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-5263, USA
Phone (609) 258-4393
Fax (609) 258-6835
E-mail: iaksay@princeton.edu
Professor
A. W.
Castleman, Jr.
Departments of Chemistry and Physics
152 Davey Laboratory
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
16802, USA
Phone (814) 865-7242
Fax (814) 865-5235
E-mail: awc@psu.edu
Professor M.
A. El-Sayed
Director of the Laser Laboratory
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, USA
Phone (404) 894-0292
Fax (404) 894-0294
E-mail: mostafa.el-sayed@chem-mail.chemistry.gatech.edu
Professor M.
S. El-Shall
Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23284-2006,
USA
Phone (804) 828-3518
Fax (804) 828-8599
E-mail: selshall@hsc.vcu.edu
Professor A. M.
Hermann
Department of Physics
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0390, USA
Phone (303) 492-2661
Fax (303) 492-2998
E-mail: hermanam@stripe.colorado.edu
Professor Samson A. Jenekhe
Boeing-Martin Professor of Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering
Benson Hall, Room 106, Box 351750
University of Washington,
Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Phone (206) 685-5525
Fax (206) 685-3451
E-mail: jenekhe@cheme.washington.edu
Dr. Zakya H. Kafafi
Senior Research Chemist and Group Leader
US Naval Research
Laboratory
Optical Sciences Division, Code 5615, Washington, DC 20375, USA
Phone (202) 767-9529
Fax (202) 204-8114
E-mail: kafafi@ccf.nrl.navy.mil
Dr. John F. Mitchell
Materials Science
Division
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, Illinois 60493, USA
Phone (630) 252-5852
Fax (630) 252-7777
E-mail: Mitchell@anl.gov
Professor
Paras
N. Prasad
Executive Director, Institute for Lasers, Photonics and
Biophotonics
State University of New York at Buffalo
428 NSM Complex, Buffalo, New York 14260, USA
Phone (716) 645-6800 ext. 2098/2099
Fax (716) 645-6945
E-mail: pnprasad@acsu.buffalo.edu
Professor Richard W.
Siegel
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, New York, 12180-3590, USA
Phone (518) 276-6373
Fax (518) 276-8554
E-mail: wsiegel@rpi.edu
Dr. R. Stanley Williams
Senior Principal Laboratory Scientist
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
1501 Page Mill Road MS 1L, Palo
Alto California 94304-1126, USA
Phone (650) 857-6586
Fax (650) 813-3312
E-mail: stan_williams@hp.com
Professor M. A.
Zikry
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-7910, USA
Phone (919) 515-5237
Fax (919) 515-5237
E-mail: zikry@eos.ncsu.edu
Dr. W. Lance Haworth
Executive Officer
Division of
Materials Research
National Science Foundation
4021 Wilson Blvd., Rm. 1065, Arlington, Virginia 22230, USA
Phone (703) 292-4916
Fax (703) 292-9035
E-mail: lhaworth@nsf.gov
Dr. Jorn Larsen-Basse
Program Director
Surface Engineering and Materials Design
National Science
Foundation
4021 Wilson Blvd., Rm. 545, Arlington, Virginia 22230, USA
Phone (703) 292-7016
Fax (703) 292-9053
E-mail: jlarsenb@nsf.gov
Dr. David L. Nelson
Coordinating Program Director, Base Science Cluster
Program Director,
Solid State Chemistry
Division of Materials Research
National Science Foundation
4021 Wilson Blvd., Rm. 1065, Arlington, Virginia 22230, USA
Phone (703) 292-4932
Fax (703) 292-9035
E-mail: dnelson@nsf.gov
Dr. Osman Shinaishin
Senior Program Manger
North
Africa, Near East and South Asia
National Science Foundation
4021 Wilson Blvd., Rm. 940, Arlington, Virginia 22230, USA
Phone (703) 292-7228
Fax (703) 292-9176
E-mail: oshinais@nsf.gov
M. A. Abdelateef
Physica Department
Faculty of Science
Sohag University
Sohag, Egypt
Gouda M. Abou-Elenien
Chemistry Department
Faculty of Science
Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt
Mostafa Afify
Benha Electronics (KATRON)
Benha, Egypt
Zeinab Abdel Hamed Abdel Aziz
Metal – Coating & Protection Dept
Central Metallurgical R & D Institute
Cairo, Egypt
M. S. Ahmed
Dept of Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
Faculty of Mining and Petroleum Engineering
Suez Canal University, Suez, Egypt
M. S. Ahmed
Central Metallurgical R & D Institute (CMRDI), Cairo, Egypt
El-Sayed Ali Abdel-Aal
Hydrometallurgy Department
Central Metallurgical R & D Institute (CMRDI)
Cairo, Egypt
Yahia A. Badr
National Institute of Laser Enhanced Sciences (NILES)
Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt
A. A. Bahgat
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science
Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
Hanan H. Beheri
Department of Ceramics, Refractory and Building Materials
National Research Center
Dokki, Cairo, Egypt
Hamed A. Ead
M. A. El-Shafeay
Technical Military College
Kobri El-Kobba, Cairo, Egypt
S. El-Eskandarany
Faculty of Mining and Petroleum Engineering
Suez Canal University
Suez, Egypt
M. Fikry Ragai Fouda
Department of Chemistry
National Research Center
Dokki, Cairo, Egypt
Wafa Isamil Abdel Fattah
Department of Ceramics & Bioceramics
National Research Center
Dokki, Cairo, Egypt
Fawazi Hammad
National Committee of Advanced Materials
Cairo, Egypt
F. Hanna
Central Metallurgical R & D Institute (CMRDI), Cairo, Egypt
M. Hanafy
Central Metallurgical R & D Institute (CMRDI), Cairo, Egypt
Z. Abdul-Hamid
Central Metallurgical R & D Institute (CMRDI), Cairo, Egypt
Riffaat H. Hilal
Department of Chemistry
Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt
S. A. Ibrahim
Faculty of Mining and
Petroleum Engineering
Suez Canal
University, Suez, Egypt
A.Ibrahim
Central Metallurgical R & D Institute (CMRDI), Cairo,
Egypt
D. M. Ibrahim
Department of Ceramics, Refractory & Building Materials
National Research Center
Dokki, Cairo, Egypt
Samir Abdel
Hakim Ibrahim
Metallurgy and Materials Department
Faculty of Engineering
Suez Canal University
Isamalia, Egypt
Sherif Kandil
Department of Materials Science
Institute of Graduate Studies & Research
Alexandria University
Alexandria, Egypt
Mahmoud H. Abdel Kader
National Institute of Laser Enhanced Sciences (NILES)
Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt
K. A. Mady
Department of Physics
National Research Center
Dokki, Cairo, Egypt
Abdel Aziz Mahmoud
Department of Chemistry
Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt
Omar Abd Elaal Mohamed
Agglomeration Department
Central Metallurgical R & D Institute (CMRDI)
Cairo, Egypt
Amani A. Mostafa
Ceramics Department
National Research Center
Dokki, Cairo, Egypt
S. F. Moustafa
Faculty of Mining and Petroleum Engineering
Suez Canal University
Suez, Egypt
Seif A. Nasser
Department of Physics
Faculty of Science
Beni-Suef University
Beni-Suef, Egypt
Sohair El-Nawawi
Chemistry Department
NRC
Cairo, Egypt
B. M. Rabeeh
Technical Military College
Kobri El-Kobba, Cairo, Egypt
Moataz M. Soliman
Department of Materials Science
Institute of Graduate Studies & Research
Alexandria University
Alexandria, Egypt
Hossam Soliman
Department of Physics
Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt
Hassan Talaat
Department of Physica
Ain Shames University
Cairo, Egypt
Abbas A. Yehia
Polymer Davison
National Research Center
Dokki, Cairo, Egypt
Biographical Sketch of the US Participants
Professor I. A. Aksay
Chem. Eng. and Princeton Materials Institute
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Ilhan Aksay is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Princeton Materials Institute of Princeton University. He earned his B.Sc. (1967) in ceramic engineering at the University of Washington and his M.Sc. (1969) and Ph.D. (1973) in materials science and engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining Princeton in 1992, his teaching and research affiliations included appointments at the University of Washington (1983-92); UCLA (1981-83); the Middle East Technical University, Ankara (1975-81); and Xerox Corporation, Webster Research Center (1973-75). His research activities include the utilization of colloidal and biomimetic techniques in ceramic processing. In recent years, his work has mainly focused on the utilization of complex fluids to control the architecture of organic/ceramic nanocomposites. Ilhan Aksay and his coworkers’ research has been recognized not only by contributions to the literature on the fundamentals of ceramic processing but also by products produced by the industry. In recognition of his contributions to ceramic processing, he received the Richard M. Fulrath Award of the American Ceramic Society (1987) and the Charles M. A. Stine Award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (1997). In recognition of his research and efforts in promoting technology transfer he was named the Puget Sound Engineering Council's 1988 Academic Engineer of the Year. Ilhan Aksay is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and an honorary member of the Japanese Materials Research Society.
Professor A. W. Castleman, Jr.
Departments of Chemistry and Physics
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
A. Welford Castleman, Jr., received a B.Ch.E. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1957 and his Ph.D. (1969) degree at the Polytechnic Institute of New York. He has been on the staff of the Brookhaven National Laboratory (1958-1975) and Professor of Chemistry and Fellow of CIRES, University of Colorado, Boulder (1975-1982). In 1982 he accepted a professorship in the Department of Chemistry at the Pennsylvania State University, and was given the distinction of the Evan Pugh Professor title in 1986. In 1999 Professor Castleman was appointed Eberly Distinguished Chair in Science, and a joint professor in the Department of Physics.
Professor Castleman was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1998, a Fellow of the American Academy for Arts and Sciences in 1998, a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1998, a Fulbright Senior Scholar in 1989, the recipient of the 1988 American Chemical Society Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology, awarded a Doktors Honoris Causa from the University of Innsbruck, Austria in 1987, named a U.S. Senior Scientist von Humboldt Awardee in 1986, elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1985) and the American Physical Society (1985), a Senior Fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science in 1985 and 1997, and Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at Cal Tech in 1977.
Professor Castleman is engaged in studies to bridge the gas and condensed phase through investigation of the dynamics of formation, the laser photophysics and spectroscopy, and the reactions and bonding of gas-phase clusters. In 1992 he reported the discovery of a new class of molecular clusters termed metallocarbohedrenes, or Met-Cars for short, and in 1997 a unique method of arresting intermediates in chemical reactions employing a Coulomb explosion femtosecond laser technique. He has over 500 publications.
Professor M. A. El-Sayed
Director of the Laser Laboratory
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400
Professor El-Sayed is the Julius Brown Professor and the Director of the Laser Dynamics Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. He obtained his BSc from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt in 1953 and his Ph. D. from Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida in 1959. He was a research associate at Harvard University (with Professor Michael Kasha, 1959-60) and at Cal Tech (with Professor G. Wilse Robinson, 1960-61). He joined the faculty at UCLA in 1961 and became a Professor in 1967. He received the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 1965, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1967, the Alexander von Humboldt Senior U.S. Scientist Award in 1982, the Egyptian American Outstanding Achievement Award in 1988, and the 1990 King Faisal International Prize in the Sciences. He was elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 1980, of the Third World Academy of Sciences in 1984 and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986. Professor El-Sayed is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Physical Chemistry, American Chemical Society (1980-).
El-Sayed and his group have published over 400 publications and the research was carried out by 50 graduate students and 40 postdoctoral fellows over the past 35 years. His research is aimed at elucidating the molecular mechanisms involved in dynamical processes and energy conversion in molecules, in gaseous clusters, in organic and inorganic solids as well as in photobiological systems. More recently, his group began active research on the ultrafast electron and hole dynamics in semiconductor nanoparticles and the dependence on shape of the physical and chemical properties (e.g. selective catalysis) on shape of precious and transition transition metal nanoparticles. His research was supported by over M$12 by DOE, DOD, and NSF over the past 35 years.
Professor M. S. El-Shall
Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284-2006
Professor El-Shall has been a member of the faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University since 1989. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from Cairo University, and a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry with Distinction from Georgetown University. He is currently a Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University. He has been awarded the Outstanding Faculty Award of the State Council of Higher Education of Virginia (SCHEV) in 1999, Virginia's highest faculty honor. He has been selected as a VCU Board of Visitors Teaching Fellow in 1998. He was the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award of the College of Humanities and Sciences in 1996. He received the Exxon Education Award in 1994 and 1995, and Dreyfus Teaching Award in 1999.
Professor El-Shall's research encompasses three principal areas dealing with: a) the formation and characterization of clusters and the study of chemical reactions within the clusters, b) novel synthesis of nanoscale particles and polymers and the characterization of these materials, and c) the effects of polarity and ion charge on vapor phase nucleation. He has published over 100 publications in leading journals of Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics. He has three US patents related to nanoparticles and nanoparticle alloys. Professor El-Shall has received major funding from external sources that include National Science Foundation, NASA, Petroleum Research Fund, the Jeffress Memorial Trust, and several industrial firms; his funding since 1990 amounts to over 2.5 million dollars.
Professor A. M. Hermann
Department of Physics
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0390
Professor Hermann is a Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. He obtained his B.S. in Physics from Loyola University in 1960, M.S. in physics from the University of Notre Dame in 1962 and PhD from Texas A&M University in 1965.
Professor Hermann's research involves high temperature superconductivity with emphasis on new materials and on thin films, non-linear dielectrics, thin-film photovoltaic devices, and nano-structured metal-hydride batteries. He has been a distinguished professor at the University of Arkansas where he led a team of scientists that discovered the T1-Ca-Ba-Cu-O superconducting system with the highest critical temperature of any superconductor on record (125K).
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He received the NASA Outstanding Achievement awards in 1970 and 1972, and the Distinguished Scientist Award of the American Association of Physics Professors in 1986. He has published over 200 papers and six books.
Professor Samson A. Jenekhe
Department of Chemical Engineering
Benson Hall, Room 106, Box 351750
University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
Professor Jenekhe is the Boeing-Martin Endowed Professor of Engineering at the University of Washington starting August 2000. He obtained his B.S. from Michigan Technological University in 1977, M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1980 and 1985, respectively. He was the Project Leader of Polymers for Electronics and Nonlinear Optics at Honeywell, Inc., Physical Sciences Center from 1985 - 1987. He joined the faculty of Chemical Engineering at the University of Rochester, where he became a Professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Materials Science from 1994 - 2000. He received the Honeywell Star Inventor Award in 1986 and the Outstanding Young Man of America Award in 1987.
Professor Jenekhe's research involves the study of Electronic and Optoelectronic Polymers, Self-Assembling and supramolecular Polymer Systems, multifunctional and smart materials, Photonic and Nonlinear Optical Polymers and Polymer Device Engineering including polymer thin films, multilayer device fabrication, light emitting diodes, photodetectors and photovoltaic cells.
Zakya H. Kafafi
Senior Research Chemist and Group Leader
US Naval Research Laboratory
Optical Sciences Division, Code 5615
Washington, DC 20375
Dr. Kafafi is a Senior Research Chemist and Group Leader at the US Naval Research Laboratory since 1986. She obtained her B.Sc. from the University of Houston and her Ph.D from Rice University in Texas. Her research interests include the Chemistry and Physics of Organic Nanostructures, Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices for Flat Panel Displays, and Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organics, Fullerenes and Metal Clusters. She has published over 100 papers.
Dr. John F. Mitchell
Materials Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue
Argonne, IL 60493
Dr. Mitchell is a research chemist at Argonne National Laboratory. He received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1987, M.S. (1989) and Ph.D. (1993) from the University of Chicago. He was awarded the Department of Energy Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow from 1993 t0 1996 at Argonne National Laboratory. His research involves the synthesis, crystal growth, and structure determination of colossal magnetoresistive (CMR) manganite oxides and quasi-2D materials. He has published over 50 papers and book chapters.
Professor Paras N. Prasad
Executive Director, Institute for Lasers, Photonics and
Biophotonics
State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260
Professor Prasad is the Samuel P. Capen Chair of Chemistry, Professor of Physics and Professor of Electrical Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is also the Executive Director of the Institute for Lasers, Photonics, and Biophotonics, at SUNY-Buffalo. He obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the Bihar University in India in 1964 and 1966, respectively, and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971. He joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry of the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1974 and became a full Professor in 1982 and a Distinguished Professor in 1997. He received the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in 1977 and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1997. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America since 1994 and of the American Physical Society since 1995. He received the Western New York American Chemical Society Schoellkopf Award in 1999. He has published over 370 papers.
Professor Richard W. Siegel
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180-3590
Dr. Richard W. Siegel has been the Robert W. Hunt Professor and Head of the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since June 1995. He was graduated from Williams College in 1958 with an AB degree in physics and received an MS degree in physics in 1960 and a PhD degree in metallurgy in 1965 from the University of Illinois in Urbana. Dr. Siegel served on the faculty of the State University of New York at Stony Brook in the Department of Materials Science (1966 to 1976). He was a research scientist in the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory from 1974 to 1995, serving for most of that time as a group leader in the areas of metal physics and defects in metals and as a research program manager.
Active in materials research for more than 35 years, Siegel's research has concentrated on the nature and physical properties of defects in metals, atomic diffusion, and most recently on the synthesis and processing, characterization, properties and applications of nanophase materials, including ceramics, metals and composites. Siegel has authored or coauthored more than 180 publications. He has edited nine books on these subjects and is an Associate Editor of Materials Letters and was a founding Editor of the international journal Nanostructured Materials. Siegel is a founder and Director of Nanophase Technologies Corporation, a publicly held manufacturing company started in 1989
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Dr. R. Stanley Williams
Senior Principal Laboratory Scientist
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
1501 Page Mill Road MS 1L, Palo Alto CA 94304-1126
Dr. Williams is Senior Principal Laboratory Scientist and Director of the Quantum Structures Research Initiative (QSRI), the basic research department at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. The QSRI was founded in July 1995 to prepare HP for the major challenges and opportunities ahead in device technology as features continue to shrink to the nanometer size scale, where quantum mechanics becomes important.
Dr. Williams obtained his B. A. degree in Chemical Physics from Rice University in 1974 and his Ph. D. degrees in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978. From 1978-80, he was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He moved to the University of California Los Angeles as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1984 and Professor in 1986. He has received awards for scientific and academic achievement, including the Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award and the Sloan Foundation Fellowship. He has been a consultant to several corporations and law firms, as well as an inaugural member of the Defense Science Study Group, an advisor to the Defense Science Board, an advisor to the Frontier Research Program at the Institute for Physics and Chemistry Research (RIKEN) in Japan, and a co-organizer of the effort that led to the National Nanotechnology Initiative in 2000.
During his 15 years at UCLA, his research group published over 150 papers in refereed journals and graduated 24 Ph.D. students, and seven post-doctoral fellows. Dr. Williams’s research interests are in the areas of solid-state chemistry and physics, and their application to technology. He started his career as a surface scientist, and contributed to the development of research tools for understanding the physics and chemistry of solid surfaces, such as photoelectron spectroscopy, ion scattering spectroscopy, and scanning tunneling microscopy. His most recent research has been in the areas of the production and processing of nanostructured materials, which are generally solid crystals that are so small their sizes are as important as their composition in determining their properties because of quantum confinement effects.
Professor M. A. Zikry
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-7910
Professor Zikry is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kansas, a Master degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1986 and a Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics from the University of California, San Diego in 1990. His research interests include the study of Failure models for heterogeneous ductile and brittle systems, fracture mechanics, plasticity, microstructural effects, Computational Mechanics, Dynamic behavior of structures and materials, stress waves in solids; structural dynamics, mechanical behavior of composite structures, and design of smart structures and materials.
Professor Zikry is the Regional Editor of the Journal of Mechanics of Materials. He has received several awards including the DuPont Young Faculty Development Award in 1990 and the NSF Research Initiation Award. He has published over 50 papers since 1990.