nanotecnology

NANO TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH

Other major research efforts are taking place at national laboratories, such as the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque and at Los Alamos National Laboratory, both in New Mexico; the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee; the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York; the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago, Illinois; and the Molecular Foundry at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California.
Internationally, the Max-Planck Institutes in Germany, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France, and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology of Japan are all engaged in nanotechnology research.

RESEARCH

Major centers of nanoscience and nanotechnology research are found at universities and national laboratories throughout the world. Many specialize in particular aspects of the field. Centers in nanoelectronics and photonics (the study of the properties of light) are found at the Albany Institute of Nanotechnology in Albany, New York; Cornell University in Ithaca, New York; the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA); and Columbia University in New York City. In addition, Cornell hosts the Nanobiotechnology Center.

Universities with departments specializing in nanopatterning and assembly include Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. Biological and environmental-based studies of nanoscience exist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Rice University in Houston, and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Studies in nanomaterials are taking place at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Other university-affiliated departments engaged in nanotechnology research include the Nanotechnology Center at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana; the University of South Carolina NanoCenter in Columbia; the Nanomanufacturing Research Institute at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts; and the Center for Nano Science and Technology at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana. By 2003 more than 100 U.S. universities had departments or research institutes specializing in nanotechnology