Nanotechnology Research – Universities

The DNI coordinates and develops efforts at Drexel University in the broad and interdisciplinary area of nanoscale science and engineering, including research, undergraduate and graduate education, technology transfer, outreach, and dissemination.

Nanotechnology research at Alabama A&M.

The Center plans to combine a wide range of areas of expertise to create a) innovative nanotechnology capable of measuring large populations of neurons and their interconnections and b) new computational methods based on modern bayesian inference and information theory.

The Arizona Institute for Nano-Electronics (AINE) is a coordinated network of research centers focused on ASU research in nanoelectronics, including nanophotonics, molecular electronics, nanoionics and computational nanoscience. AINE's goal is to strongly impact future technology areas related to ultra-low power/ultra-high speed electronics, and hybrid biomolecular electronics at the interface between the biological and electronics worlds.

The center's mission is to research and develop reliable, affordable, renewable energy sources and storage; to provide a focal point for prototype and systems analysis for these renewable energy sources; and to focus on four renewable energy research areas bioenergy, photovoltaics, fuel cell/energy storage, and energy system testing, which form the intellectual focus for overlapping centers in each area.

The Center for Applied NanoBioscience hopes to develop novel molecular-based diagnostic tests that can be used by individuals and public health systems to facilitate personalized medicine.

The Center for integrates biology and biochemistry with materials engineering, nanotechnology and solid-state electronics to develop novel devices for use in biomedicine, environmental remediation, threat detection, and agriculture.

The primary aim of the Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors is to create powerful bioassays for point-of-care diagnostics and a variety of advanced handheld, environmental field microanalyzers. By interfacing three advanced technologies - nanomaterials, biomaterials and electronic transducers - the researchers have the ability to create enhanced biosensors and nanobioelectronics.

Designed as a boundary organization at the interface of science and society, CNS-ASU provides an operational model for a new way to organize research through improved reflexiveness and social learning which can signal emerging problems, enable anticipatory governance, and, through improved contextual awareness, guide trajectories of NSE knowledge and innovation toward socially desirable outcomes, and away from undesirable ones.

The Center uses nanotechnology to study physical processes on which life is based using the simplest model systems - those that exist on the level of a single molecule or several molecules.