Nanotechnology Research – Universities

Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) is an approach which can help to find relationships between structure properties of studied compounds and target property or biological activity. Quantitative structure?activity relationships (QSAR) offer the possibility for screening a large number of chemicals in a short time and with low cost. The QSAR establish a statistical relationship between biological activity or environmental behavior of the chemicals of interest and their structural properties. Using QSAR, one can obtain an estimate of the activity of a chemical from its molecular structure only.

The nanotechnology laboratory is working on development, understanding and application of one of the most important surface investigation technique: Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) in UHV, and on application Molecular Beam Evaporation (MBE) for insulator/semoconductor and metal/insulator thin films.

Nanoscience and nanotechnology research at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

Research activities include synthesis and characterization of a variety of nanoobjects-tubes, wires and particles of different materials, their chemical modification and organization as well as thin films and powders of transition metal oxides showing interesting physical properties.

The research area of the laboratory covers basic research of inorganic synthesis chemistry, development of synthetic routes and preparation techniques, molecular engineering & design and high-pressure synthesis chemistry and nanomaterials.

The group's approach to exploring new properties arising in nanostructured materials is to integrate their research starting from the production of particles, their characterization and assembly to designed structures, the physical investigation of such structures and the modeling and understanding of the results.

Professor Bowen's research interests are centered around clusters and nanoparticles. A major objective of Dr. Bowen's research is to provide a molecule's eye view of many-body, condensed phase interactions. The study of size-specific and composition-specific clusters provides an incisive means of addressing this fundamental and longstanding problem in physical chemistry.

The Institute for Nanobiotechnology has been established at Hopkins to bring together expertise from the fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology, biology, medicine, and engineering to enable the creation of new knowledge and new technologies.

The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU), one of 26 MRSECs funded by the National Science Foundation, is composed of scientists at JHU, Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Research in the Center focuses on the science and engineering of magnetoelectronics. Research focuses on magnetic nanostructures.

The School's Engineering Programs for Professionals offers the Nanotechnology Option with the Master of Materials Science and Engineering program. Within the option, students can pursue a concentration in nanomaterials or biotechnology.

Research in the Searson group at Johns Hopkins involves the synthesis and fabrication of nanomaterials with novel properties.

Major research activities in nanotechnologies include thin films and surface engineering (physics and applications) and application of ion and plasma methods for formation of nanostructures and nanomaterials.

The Center aims to stimulate nanoscience and microsystems technology activity in Lithuania and Baltic region by participating in European and global networks, research projects and by dissemination of information.

The central scientific focus of the Kavli Institute at Cornell is to ddress the major challenges and opportunities for science at the atomic and molecular scale.

The center is one of the seven networking national research centers across the country in nanotechnology. The mission of the center is to provide higher education and advance research and knowledge in the emerging fields of nanotechnology.

Major research topics are Optical Properties of Mesoscopic Particles; Fabrication and Characterization of Novel Carbonaceous Nano-Materials; Surface Plasmon and Near-Field Optics; and Optical Waveguides and Other Photonic Devices

Yo-Sep Min's lab is interested in chemical approaches to materials and devices for electronic and energy applications. Current research interests are: Carbon nanotube (CNT): synthesis, purification, functionalization and its device applications. Atomic layer deposition (ALD): dielectric or metallic films and nano-materials by ALD technique. Hydrogen storage materials with a large surface area and a moderate binding energy with hydrogen.

The main research efforts of the group focus on the fabrication of functional nanomaterials by assembling nanobuilding blocks into designed patterns.

Research areas in Haeshin Lee's group are dealing with Design and synthesis functional biomaterials and inspired by mussels and geckos; Development of nano-carriers for a variety of pharmaceuticals; Development of new surface chemistry for material-independent surface modifications; Self-assembly of peptides and proteins; Protein folding in solutions; and development of new gecko-mimetic adhesives.

Nano-Biomaterials laboratory focuses on synthesis, characterization, and application of novel biomaterials for drug delivery, tissue engineering, and gene therapy.

This research program is a collective effort of research groups with different disciplinary competencies. The major goal of the program is the development of new, innovative tools, technologies and methodologies for chemical synthesis, analysis and biochemical diagnostics, performed in nanolitre to femtolitre domains.

Research on quantum Josephson circuits, nanostructured proteins and spintronics.

The lab tries to construct and establish a new concept of semiconductor materials research, that is, semiconductor exciton photonics. Research includes growth techniques for low dimensional or nano-scale structures by atomic-scale controlling of surfaces and interfaces together with excitonic and photonic properties.

Research in the group involves searching for new optoelectrical phenomenons in atomic structures, which result from new quantum phenomenons as well as the co-existence of light and electrons. Design of new optoelectronics devices.

Three main areas of research: Molcular Nanotechnology, Quantum Nanotechnology and Bio-Nanotechnology.