Meet Micro and Nano Experts from Industry and Science @ Ede (Ede, The Netherlands, December 11–12, 2013)

Henne van Heeren

doi:10.1515/gps-2013-0031

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Meet Micro and Nano Experts from Industry and Science @ Ede (Ede, The Netherlands, December 11–12, 2013)

Henne van Heeren

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From the journal Green Processing and Synthesis Volume 2 Issue 3

The MicroNanoConference is at the crossroads of applications and technologies, with a sharp eye for commercialization issues. Some of the discussed applications are: (bio) chemical and water processing, agro, food and horticulture, lifescience and health. Technological topics of interest for this community are: micro and nano manufacturing, micro- and nanofluidics based sensing and processing, bionanotechnology—materials and systems etc. As in the preceding eight editions of the MicroNanoConference, we expect an attendance level of over 450 academics and industrialists, visiting both the exhibition and the conference.

The conference is a unique event that brings together science and industry in the field of micro and nanotechnology. It also brings together specialists on applications and enabling technologies like microfluidics and nanomaterials. This is especially important while technology based innovation is nowadays very much multi-disciplinary. For instance flow chemistry needs microreactors, but that also calls for new kinds of sensors and catalysts. Similarly, for the newest diagnostic and high speed sequencing instruments (pre)processing of the samples is as important as the actual detection.

Integration of the right technologies and subsystems is one of the biggest challenges facing the industry. Piggybacking on other disciplines is often necessary. Getting acquainted about what is happening in adjacent application fields and meet and interact with the right experts in these fields is therefore as important as get up to date information about your own specialist field. Combining these two, updating the attendees about the latest trends/technologies and giving ample networking opportunities, is the goal of the MicroNanoConference.

Microfluidics and bionanotechnology are important topics during this upcoming edition of the MicroNanoConference. Two examples of lectures the attendees can expect are:

Guillaume Delapierre from CEA-Leti Minatec, France, discusses integrated sample preparation for diagnostic and environment monitoring.

Erik Jung, Fraunhofer IZM, Germany, will focus on miniature sensor integration into microfluidic devices for bioprocessing.

Some of the other 20 keynote and invited talks will be given by:

David Carlander, Nanotechnology Industries Association, Belgium
Dominique Roberge, Lonza Visp Switzerland
Sumita Pennathur form the University of California Santa Barbara, USA

An active involvement of industry, science and user community of microsystems and nanotechnology is one of the key success factors of this conference. We encourage you to be part of this unique conference and invite you to submit an abstract on the crossroad of the following themes and topics:

Applications themes:	Technological topics:
Agro, Food and Horticulture,	Micro and nano manufacturing
Water and (Bio) chemical processing	Packaging and Assembly
Lifescience and Health,	Micro and Nano Photonics,
Energy and Lighting	Nano (electronic) Materials
High tech equipment	Micro- and Nanofluidics based sensing and processing
	Bionanotechnology, -materials and systems
	Nanomedicine
	Safety, risks, regulations and standardisation

The deadline for the call for abstracts is Friday 28 June 2013.

More detailed information on the call for abstracts and the online submission link can be found via the following link: http://www.micronanoconference.nl/conference-program/abstracts.html

The conference is organized by NanoNextNL and MinacNed.

Venue

This conference will be held from 11–12 December 2013 in Ede, The Netherlands. The conference location is at a walking distance from the railway station which has a direct connection with Schiphol airport.

You can find the latest information on www.micronanoconference.org, or keep up todate by joining:

Twitter: @micronanoconf LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2895421&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr

Contact

Henne van Heeren, henne@enablingMNT.com, Tel.: +31 (0)78 - 630 07 48 (Program Secretariat)

Corresponding author: Henne van Heeren, enablingMNT Drakensteynlaan 34 Dordrecht 3319 RG, The Netherlands

Published Online: 2013-05-23

Published in Print: 2013-06-01

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