The table below lists some recent projects and organizations across the region that face nano-characterization challenges. Eventually, each entry might have a weblink to more details as well. This is the first ingredient (A) for nano-alliance impact. The second ingredient (B) is of course groups willing to offer synthesis, characterization, and consulting resources to the nano-alliance. The third ingredient (C) is the "institutional component". On the state level, this means engaging the governor's Research Alliance, state legislators, and corporate leaders as well. That's where you come in. Please consider putting the below table into Microsoft Word, adding regional organizations and projects that you know of which currently (or in the future) face nano-scale science challenges, and return it to me at pfraundorf@umsl.edu for compilation of a more complete list. I would also be interested in a separate list of resources that your institution might be willing to offer to regional groups facing such challenges. /pf

Area of Impact >>	Knowledge Base	Products	Healthcare	Sustainability
groups facing nanocharacterization challenges \/ \/	better comprehension of life, and nature's self-similarities	nano-materials, electronics, pharmaceuticals, chemical plants, aerospace, tools	extending life's span, quality, and capabilities	agriculture, food, water, energy, material resources, environment
Industries
Boeing (St. Louis)
Crosslink Polymers (Fenton)
MEMC Electronic Materials (O'Fallon)		Fei (strained Si on SiGe epitaxy), Mulestagno (wafer bonding, internal gettering, Cu decoration)
Orscheln (Moberly)				Heimann (Cr-free protection of metal parts)
Institutes
Danforth
MOBOT
Universities
SLU Med School
UM
UM-R		Bertino (metal nanoclusters, aerogel composites), Switzer (oxide epitaxy)
UM-StL	Fraundorf (presolar & interplanetary dust)	Leopold (GaInN quantum dots), Fraundorf (O in and on gigascale IC silicon)	Spilling (polymers on nanoparticles)
WU	Bernatowicz and Zinner (presolar grains), Fegley (oxidation of meteoritic iron)	Kelton (quasixtls, nucleation), Buhro and Hayes (nanophase B, N, CdS, CdSe, materials), Axelbaum (nanoparticles in flames)	Wooley (?), Heuser (?)	Biswas (aerosol catalysts), Axelbaum (flame produced carbon phases)
WU School of Medicine