Innovation Successful Partnerships Summit Wade Adams Director Smalley

Innovation & Successful Partnerships Summit Wade Adams Director, Smalley Institute September 2, 2010

Rice University • • • Independent & Private 644 full-time faculty 417 part-time and adjunct 3279 undergraduates 2277 graduate students Schools of Engineering, Natural Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences, Business, Music, and Architecture 2

Rice is a Very Innovative Place Invention Disclosures per $1 M research* Rice 0. 98 Penn 0. 38 Georgia Tech 0. 66 U Cal System 0. 35 Stanford 0. 57 Harvard 0. 34 Carnegie Mellon 0. 57 UT Austin 0. 29 MIT 0. 41 Baylor Col. Of Med 0. 26 Wisconsin (WARF) 0. 40 Texas A&M 0. 17 *FY 2008 preliminary AUTM stats 4

Rice is #1 in Materials Science World-Wide Institution Citations/Paper 1 – Rice University 381 11, 949 31. 36 2 – Harvard University 596 16, 467 27. 63 3 – UC Santa Barbara 964 25, 376 26. 32 4 – University of Washington 822 21, 348 25. 97 5 – IBM Corporation 573 13, 822 24. 14 1, 654 34, 017 20. 57 11 – Stanford University 728 13, 853 19. 03 13 – Max Plank Society 3, 506 54, 175 15. 45 15 – Georgia Tech 1, 581 21, 609 13. 67 948 12, 929 13. 64 8 – MIT 16 – Sandia National Lab 5 Papers

There have been 40 Rice affiliated start-up companies over the past 9 years (top ten in start-ups/research $) Carbon Nanotechnologies Incorporated Nanospectra Biosciences 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. Advanced Biosciences*- (Matsuda) 25. Advanced Reality* - (Ruths- grad student) 26. Applied Nano. Fluorescence- (Weisman) 27. Aristan Medical - (Athanasiou) 28. Beta. Batt - (Engel)** 29. BI 02 Medical** 30. Bio. Cure* 31. Bio. Sonic – (Liebschner) 32. Cambrios (affiliated company)- (Smalley) 33. CNI (now Unidym)- (Smalley, Hauge, et al. ) 34. Desmogen*- (Mikos) 35. Ensysce Biosciences- (Weisman, Wilson) 36. Glycos Biotechnology- (Gonzalez) 37. Houston Medical Robotics- (O’Malley) 38. it. Robotics- (Ghorbel)** 39. Lab. Now Laser. Gen (BCM-Metzger; Rice-Curl) 40. Mango Communication* Mass Specific Force- (Weyand) Molecular Electronics Corp* - (Tour) MTPE (Museums Teaching Planet Earth) (Reiff) Nano 3 D Biosciences (Killian and Rafael) Nano. Composites (Tour)** Nanopartz (Zubarev) * Inactive Nano. Ridge (Barrera et al. ) Nanospectra Biosciences (West and Halas)** Nat. Core (Barron) New. Cyte (Barron) Ortho. Accel** Oxane Materials (Barron) Pro. Medior (Gomer) Semmt** Smart Imaging Technology** Solterra (Wong) Somatogen* -(Olson) Stellarray** Trellis* (affiliated company)- (Gomer) Vanguard Solar – (Barron) Xilas Medical (affiliated company)(Athanasiou) In. View Tech – Bob Bridge (Baraniuk) ** 9 have received funding from Texas Emerging Technology Fund

Smalley Institute Vision We lead the world in solving humanity’s most pressing problems through the application of nanotechnology. 11

Smalley Institute: Virtual Organization Across Rice – 1993 (1 st in the world!) Advocate Research Support Faculty Raise Funds Infrastructure Seminars Collaboration External Interactions IP, Licensing & Start-ups Local - International Meetings Symposia Education Outreach Nanotech Service 150+ faculty members 14 departments nano. rice. edu Wade Adams, Director Vicki Colvin, Co-Director Carlos Garcia, Director of Administration John Marsh, Director of Operations Valerie Moore, Development Coordinator Gloria Funderburg, SEA Operations Wendi Schoffstall, Coordinator Addy Saenz, Accounting Stephanie Biediger, Undergraduate Assistant 12 • • • FOCUS AREAS Nano in Energy Nano. Health Nano. Materials for Aerospace SWNT Nano. Photonics Nano. Electronics Social/Ethical/ Environmental/ Toxicological Issues Nanoscience/ Nanoengineering Nanoeducation

24/7 Lecture on Nanotechnology Ig Nobel Ceremony October 1, 2009 Harvard University Nanotechnology: Making Small Stuff Do Big Things And Then Selling Them!

Professor Richard E. Smalley 1943 - 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996 11 -day project in Sept 1985 2 -page paper in Nature - with Robert F. Curl - and Harold Kroto 15 Carbon-60 Molecule A. K. A. • C-60 • Buckminsterfullerene • Buckyball

25 th Anniversary of the Buckyball Discovery Sunday, October 10 – Wednesday, October 13 16 Sunday Evening Monday Morning 10 -10 -10 Gala Nobel Research Team Members discuss the Fullerene Discovery and Future of Carbon Nanotechnology

25 th Anniversary of the Buckyball Discovery Sunday, October 10 – Wednesday, October 13 Monday Evening Bucky ‘Ball’ Celebration Buckyball’s 25 th Discovery Day Party Tuesday Keynote Lunch 17

Roadblocks • Vision without funding is hallucination. • Da Hsuan Feng – UT Dallas • Vision without hardware is delusion. • Lockheed engineer 19

From the age of Space to the age of Medicine 20

Will Energy, HP Fibers, or SPACE Motivate Kids to Science & Engineering? SWNT Armchair Quantum Wire Energy Conservation – SWNT ULW Vehicles The SWNT SPACE Elevator 21

As SPACE motivated Rick Smalley (and me!) Troublemaker Visionary 22

Class of 2030