Acknowledgment

Our foremost thanks go to Dr. Tomoko Gray (UW, ChemE) for developing a great part of the laboratory units. Furthermore, we gratefully acknowledge the lab unit development efforts by Michael Brasile, Yeechi Chen, Dan Knorr, Jason Killgore, and Joseph Wei, and the logistic support efforts by Dr. Hanson Fong (UW, GEMSEC). We also like to express our gratitude to Dr. Ethan Allen (UW, CNT) and Dr. Tom Griffith (NSCC) for their support of this program from the very beginning. NUE UNIQUE is funded by the Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) program of the National Science Foundation (Grant 06-538) and supported by GEMSEC (a UW based Mat. Res. and Eng. Center), Nanosurf AG (Switzerland) and nanoScience Instruments (AZ), and the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington.