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Biomimetic Nanoconductors

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Michael Mclennan

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Michael McLennan is a Senior Research Scientist at Purdue University, where he works as the Software Architect for the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) and the Center for Catalyst Design (CCD).  His background is in semiconductor device simulation and the development of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools. 

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McLennan is a recognized expert in scripting languages and graphical user interfaces, having co-authored two books, “Effective Tcl/Tk Programming” for Addison-Wesley and “Tcl/Tk Tools” for O’Reilly and Associates, and having invented [incr Tcl], an object-oriented extension of the popular Tcl scripting language.  Dr. McLennan is currently developing the Rappture toolkit, which automates the process of creating graphical user interfaces for scientific applications.  McLennan’s work is critical to realizing our Center’s goal of disseminating our algorithms, code, and software to the entire nanoscience community.

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Network for Computational Nanotechnology

NanoHub

The National Center for Design of Biomimetic Nanoconductors is funded by Grant Number PHS 2 PN2 EY016570B from the National Institutes of Health through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and is based at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Partner institutions include Yale University, University of Southern California, University of Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, Sandia National Laboratories, Argonne National Laboratory, Oxford University, Wabash College, University of California, Davis, nanoHUB at Purdue University, and the University of New Mexico.