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Summary written by:

Kiryn Haslinger, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, New York University

Focus group members:

• Placid Ferreira, Director, Center for Nanoscale Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing Systems, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Richard Groff, Postdoctoral Research Engineer, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

• Kiryn Haslinger, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, New York University