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Workshop Chairs:
Millicent Firestone
(ANL/Materials Science Division)
Tom Irving
(Illinois Institute of Technology)
Jin Wang
(Advanced Photon Source)
Randall Winans
(ANL/Chemistry Division)

Workshop on Membrane Science

August 17-18, 2004, APS, Argonne, Illinois

Objective

  1. Identify opportunities for continued scientific discovery and impact using the Advanced Photon Source during the next 5-10 years in the inter-disciplinary area of membrane sciences.
  2. Explore the breadth of science covered by the workshop topics, not limiting to synchrotron techniques alone.
  3. Assure that enough time is given to discuss how the existing community can be grown, and which newer areas of membrane science are to be identified that will broaden the community. This is to be achieved by bringing scientific leaders to the workshops that will both identify key problems in their research and benefit from the addition of synchrotron techniques in their research arsenal.
  4. Identify a few dozen new scientific programs which the participants could bring to the APS during next 5-10 years, on the basis of the contributed abstracts. Also evaluate the capital and operational requirements for these programs to succeed.
  5. Examine existing beamline capabilities at the APS and define what future beamline capabilities would be desirable to pursue new research in membrane sciences.
  6. Prepare a summary document for the archival literature to serve as a roadmap for the future of the emerging areas in membrane science utilizing the capabilities of the Advanced Photon Source.