OZ NANO 03

OZ NANO 03
Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Nanotechnology Forum 2003

Cairns, Australia, 19 - 21 November 2003

CONTENTS

FRONT MATTER	i
Nanotechnology — Policy, Investment, Human Resources Development
INTRODUCTION: NANOTECHNOLOGY TRENDS IN ASIA PACIFIC JURGEN SCHULTE	3
NANOTECHNOLOGY FUNDING AND R&D ACTIVITIES IN JAPAN KAZUNOBU TANAKA	9
THE EUROPEAN UNION'S 6^TH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME: RESEARCH ON NANOSCIENCES AND NANOTECHNOLOGIES NICHOLAS HARTLEY	13
NANOTECHNOLOGY VICTORIA — A VEHICLE FOR COMMERCIALIZING NANOTECHNOLOGIES IN VICTORIA PETER BINKS	23
PRE-SEED INVESTMENT IN AUSTRALIAN NANOTECHNOLOGY GREG SMITH	31
IN THE FAST LANE OF INNOVATION BRONTE PRICE	37
Nanoscience, Nanotechnology and Bio-Nanotechnology
ELECTROCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ORDERED MESOPOROUS CARBON AS ELECTRODE MATERIAL IN LI-ION BATTERY W. XING, Z. F. YAN, G. Q. LU and R. RYOO	45
LIGHT EMISSION FROM SILICON NANOCRYSTALS — SIZE DOES MATTER! ROBERT G. ELLIMAN	49
APPLICATIONS OF PLASMONICS IN MINIATURISED SENSORS P. R. STODDART, J. B. PEARCE, T. M. BOYCE and A. MAZZOLINI	53
SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NEARLY MONDISPERSE CDSE QUANTUM DOTS AT LOWER TEMPERATURE RONG HE and HONGCHEN GU	59
UNCONVENTIONAL FERROMAGNETISM IN ALL-CARBON CLUSTER-ASSEMBLED NANOFOAM A. V. RODE, E. G. GAMALY, A. G. CHRISTY, J. G. FITZ GERALD, S. T. HYDE, R. G. ELLIMAN, B. LUTHER-DAVIES, J. ANDROULAKIS and J. GIAPINTZAKIS	63
THE APPLICATIONS OF FOCUSED ION BEAM TECHNOLOGY TO NANOSCALE MATERIALS J. M. CAIRNEY and P. R MUNROE	71
LOW-TEMPERATURE FORMATION OF SiGe NANO-CRYSTALS BY METAL-INDUCED LATERAL CRYSTALLIZATION M. MIYAO, H. KANNO, T. SADOH and A. KENJO	75
CATALYSIS AND CAPACITANCE OF NANOSTRUCTURED GOLD SPONGES M. B. CORTIE, E. VAN DER LINGEN and G. PATTRICK	79
FRONTIERS OF PHASE FORMATION AND CONTROL IN NANOPARTICLES BY IN-SITU TEM H. YASUDA, H. MORI and J. G. LEE	83
TEMPLATE DIRECTED SYNTHESIS OF NANOSIZED BONE-LIKE APATITE Adriyan S. Milev, G. S. Kamali Kannangara, Besim Ben-Nissan and Michael A. Wilson	87
USING CARBON NANOTUBES AND DNA TO TRANSFER ELECTRONS OVER LONG DISTANCES: APPLICATIONS TO SENSING AND BIOELECTRONICS J. JUSTIN GOODING, JINGQUAN LIU, ELICIA (LEE-SEH) WONG, WIBOWO RAHMAD, ALISON CHOU, MICHAEL N. PADDON-ROW, D. BRYNN HIBBERT, DUSAN LOSIC and JOE G. SHAPTER	93
AN ANALYTICAL SINGLE-ELECTRON-TRANSISTOR MODEL BASED ON FREE ENERGY DIFFERENCE ACROSS THE TUNNELING BARRIER YOU-LIN WU and SHI-TIN LIN	101
LARGE-QUANTITY SYNTHESIS METHOD OF CARBON AND BORON NITRIDE NANOTUBES: MECHANO-THERMAL PROCESS YING CHEN	105
DETERMINATION OF THE SPECIFIC SURFACE OF γ-AL₂O₃ USING SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY SCATTERING C. MAITLAND, C. E. BUCKLEY, G. PAGLIA and J. CONNOLLY	113
A MODIFIED SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE AS A NANOLITHOGRAPHY TOOL GRAHAME ROSOLEN	121
OPTICAL AND STRUCTURAL INVESTIGATION OF SURFACE-PASSIVATED LEAD SULFIDE QUANTUM DOTS MARK FERNÉE, ANDREW WATT, JAMIE WARNER, NORMAN HECKENBERG, HALINA RUBINSZTEIN-DUNLOP and JAMIE RICHES	129
TOWARDS MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS: CONDUCTION OF SINGLE MOLECULES KARL-HEINZ MÜLLER	133
NANOBIOCERAMICS B. Ben-Nissan	139
DESIGN OF FUNCTIONAL LIPOSOMES AND THEIR APPLICATION TO DRUG AND GENE DELIVERY KENJI KONO	143
TARGETING OF ¹⁰B COMPOUNDS TO SOLID TUMORS BY TRANSFERRIN-PEG LIPOSOMES, FOR BORON NEUTRON-CAPTURE THERAPY (BNCT) KAZUO MARUYAMA, S. KASAOKA, T. TAKIZAWA, N. UTOGUCHI, Y. SAKURAI, K. ONO, H. KOBAYASHI, A. SHINOHARA and H. YANAGIE	149
ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF MOLECULES MEASURED WITH SUBMICRON-GAP ELECTRODES W. MIZUTANI, Y. NAITOH and K. TSUKAGOSHI	157
MEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPING NATIONS D. C. MACLURCAN, M. J. FORD, M. B. CORTIE and D. GHOSH	165

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