Nanotechnology Research – Universities

The Center is dedicated to the expanded use of dendrimer technologies in biomedical, diagnostic and nano-material applications.

CARAMEL Consortium: CARbon Allotropes for MicroELectronics. The purpose of this consortium is to study and develop nanodevices based on carbon nanotubes.

Large efforts, experimental as well as theoretical, are directed at materials, devices and subsystems for future micro/nanoelectronics in the fields of microwave electronics, quantum devices, photonics, micro- and nanosystems, superconducting devices and circuits and molecular electronics just to mention a few.

The institute is active in the fields of advanced technologies for microelectronics, microsystems and silicon micromachining as well as nanotechnologies.

The center has been established at the institute of physics of the Chemnitz University of technology to concentrate and coordinate the activities of several research groups in the field of design and analytics of materials, especially organic/inorganic hybrid materials on the nanometer scale.

The aim of the Nanomaterials Research Unit is to develop new methods for the economical production of nanostructured metals, semiconductors, ceramics, polymers and their composites.

Research focus includes the construction of nanostructured organic materials for bionanotechnology applications, understanding growth mechanisms of nanostructures and designing new structures and multifunctional organic-inorganic hybrid materials such as gel-nanoparticles and liquid crystal nanoparticles.

COSDAF woks in the areas of nanomaterials & nanotechnology, organic light-emitting devices (OLED), nanodiamond and superhard thin films

Nanotechnology Minor program at Clarion University's Physics Department.

CAMP's mission is to perform innovative research and conduct educational efforts on the synthesis and processing of advanced materials of interest to industry.

The main objective of this program has been the exploration of coherent quantum mechanical processes in novel solid-state semiconductor information processing devices, with components of atomic dimensions: quantum computers, spintronic devices, and nanometer-scale computer logic gates.

Nano-Bio-Technology is one of the fastest growing areas of modern research. To be competitive in the research and education of students in this area, Clarkson University establishes Nanoengineering and Biotechnology Laboratories Center (NABLAB) to provide research support for all Clarkson scholars working in this highly multidisciplinary area.

Nanostructured materials group is an interdisciplinary research team focused on the study and fabrication of synthetic 'smart' materials and biomaterials on a nanoscale and the scale of single molecules. Stimuli-responsive materials for biomedical applications, sensors, molecular electronics, microactuators, microfluidic devices, lipid bilayers, membranes, textiles, super-hydrophobic coatings, and responsive dispersions are of group's special interest.

An integrative research and education enterprise at Clemson University that is oriented toward service, is actively managed and directed by the constituency it serves, and is focused on providing leadership and excellence to the scientific and technological area of bioelectronics, biosensors and biochips. Research areas include nanobiosensors.

Professor Rao's laboratory at Clemson University focuses its research primarily on the synthesis and characterization of carbon nanotubes.

Developing the science base for the production, characterization and modeling of nanoparticles, their environmental impact, and their assembly into functional nanostructures.

The first college in the world devoted exclusively to the development and deployment of innovative nanoscience concepts.

Research into interfaces, surfaces, and thin films is one of the most active areas of research.

The research of the Brus group is in the physical chemistry of materials, interfaces, nanocrystals, and nanotubes, especially in relation to optical and electronic properties.

MRSEC is an interdisciplinary team of university, industrial, and national laboratory scientists and engineers working together to develop and examine new types of nanocrystals and ways of assembling them into thin films.

The Columbia University Nanocenter's goal is to establish new paradigms for information processing using the characteristics of electron transport unique to nanoscale molecular structures. Founded in 2001, the Nanocenter draws upon years of experience in chemical synthesis to design molecular structures with carefully crafted properties.

The Adams group at Columbia University research topics are Nanoscale and Molecular Electronic Materials; Organized Nanostructures; Imaging of Optoelectronic Processes; Single Molecule/Nanostructure Spectroscopy

Main research interests include Raman Scattering and other Optical Spectroscopy of Nanocrystals and Electric-field Assisted Assembly of Nanomaterial Films.

The focus of Kim group research is the mesoscopic investigation of transport phenomena, particularly, electric, thermal and thermoelectrical properties of low dimensional nanoscale materials. These materials include carbon nanotubes, organic and inorganic nanowires, 2-dimensional mesoscopic single crystals, and single organic molecules.

Established as one of 6 interdisciplinary Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers to address the existing challenges and opportunities that are to be found in nanotechnology research and development.