Zakaria Al Balushi, graduate student in Engineering Science and Mechancis, will attend the Materials Research Society Workshop on Directed Self-Assembly of Materials September 28 at the Opryland Hotel in Nashville, TN. This workshop will review the current state of the art in the directed self-assembly of materials, and then seek the identify breakthrough strategies and enabling technologies (both theoretical and experimental) that will facilitate the design and massive self-assembly of multi-component 3D structures with precisely engineered electronics and optical properties. To learn more about the conference, please visit their web site.