Nanotechnology Research Laboratories

A University of Newcastle research centre developing printed and flexible organic electronics, including organic photovoltaics, photonics and biosensors fabricated at the interface of semiconductors and polymers.

The Centre is dedicated to developing groundbreaking technologies and providing solutions to critical global issues through interdisciplinary collaboration and engagement with national and international academic and industry partners.

The Global Innovative Centre for Advanced Nanomaterials at the University of Newcastle applies nanotechnology and materials science to challenges in energy, the environment and health, translating advanced nanomaterials research into commercial products.

The mission of the Surface and Nanoscience group is to be a centre of excellence for the modelling and analysis of surfaces and nanometre scale materials.

The center's efforts are aimed at improving health by enhancing the efficacy and safety of new drugs and imaging agents through the discovery and application of innovative methods of drug delivery.

The Ph.D. in Nanoscale Science at UNC Charlotte is an interdisciplinary program that addresses the development, manipulation, and use of materials and devices on the scale of roughly 1-100 nanometers in length, and the study of phenomena that occur on this size scale. The program prepares students to become scholarly, practicing scientists who possess the critical thinking, methodological, and communication skills required to advance and disseminate knowledge of fundamental and applied nanoscale science.

The Center for Nano Science and Technology explores new device concepts and associated architectures that are enabled by novel phenomena on the nanometer scale. It catalyzes multidisciplinary research and education in nanoelectronics, molecular electronics, nano-bio and bio-fluidic microstructures, circuits, and architectures. It facilitates collaborations between participating faculty from the departments of electrical engineering, computer science and engineering, chemical engineering, chemistry and biochemistry, and physics.

A Faculty of Engineering group developing nanomaterials and scalable nanoparticle synthesis, including continuous-flow and supercritical water hydrothermal routes to metal oxide nanoparticles and nano-hydroxyapatite.

The degree follows the same syllabus as the BSc Physics programme with an introduction to nanoscience and other cutting-edge research provided by the Frontiers in Physics module. In year two you will again pursue the same core as for the BSc Physics course but will also take the Force and Function at the Nanoscale, and Molecular Bio- and Nanophysics modules (which replace two of the optional modules of the core course).

The group's research focuses on chemistry of carbon nanotubes and fullerenes and development of applications for these materials. Directed assembly of functional networks from nanoscopic building blocks (nanotubes, nanoparticles, macromolecules) is at the center of the experimental activities.

The Centre offers co-ordinated nanotechnology and microscale resources for pure and applied research and teaching.

'Bottom up' approaches to nanotechnology, scanning probe microscopes, properties of fullerenes and derivatives.

CAMCOR is a full-service, comprehensive materials characterization center available to research institutions and private industry. The CAMCOR facilities provide enabling infrastructure for research in chemistry, nanoscience, materials science, bioscience, and optics.

This is a multidisciplinary programme at the interface between physics and chemistry. The main focus is on advanced materials, energy, and nanotechnology, but the programme also provides a solid foundation in physics and chemistry. Even though specific courses in physics, chemistry, mathematics, nanotechnology, and computer science are compulsory, there is room for a range of optional courses that you can integrate into the degree.

The center is responsible for the university's strategic programme on functional materials (FUNMAT), and the activities at the Micro- and Nanotechnology laboratory (MINA-lab).

The focus of the interdisciplinary research in the NANOMO unit is on molecular level nanomaterials research, novel applications of spectroscopic and imaging techniques and in physics didactics research.

The Bio-nanotechnology research area within Engineering Biology Oxford represents Oxford research activity applying nanoscale biological engineering approaches within the wider engineering biology community.

The Oxford Carbon Nanomaterials Group focuses on synthesising and characterising carbon nanomaterials, particularly fullerenes and derivatives, for use in a wide range of novel technologies.

This advanced modular course is delivered by leading scientists and experts in this rapidly developing field and has been specifically designed for those who would value a part-time modular learning structure, for example those in full-time employment, both in the UK and overseas. The MSc is designed to be completed part-time, normally over a two- to three-year period, and so provides a path to career development that is flexible and recognised within academia and industry. The programme comprises three online modules exploring the fundamentals of science and materials characterisation at the nanoscale, three intensive five-day face-to-face modules describing the clinical and commercial application of such science, and a piece of original lab-based research leading to the submission of a dissertation.

Nicole Grobert's Nanomaterials by Design group focuses on the synthesis, processing and characterisation of carbon and non-carbon nanomaterials, including nanoparticles, nanotubes, nanorods, graphene and other 2D nanomaterials.

The group works with synthetic biomolecular nanostructures built by self-assembly from DNA and RNA, developing functional nucleic-acid nanostructures for molecular electronics, molecular machinery, atomically precise manufacture, chemical discovery and theranostic nanosystems.

The Oxford Nano-Spin Group investigates spin effects in nanostructures, spanning synthesis of magnetic molecules and polymers, advanced characterisation, theoretical modelling and integration into functional nanodevices.

The group focuses on the optical and electronic properties of solid state nanostructures for applications such as optoelectronics devices, quantum information processing and photovoltaics.

The Postgraduate Certificate in Nanotechnology is a unique online course which is taken part time. The course is ideally suited to people who are in full-time employment who seek to gain an academic qualification in the exciting field of nanotechnology. It is taken predominantly online, meaning that it is accessible to anyone in the world with Internet access.

The research interests of the Quantum Optoelectronics Group include: Time-resolved Spectroscopy of Nanostructures; Quantum Optics; Wide Bandgap Semiconductors; Quantum Hall effect; Near-field Optical Microscopy; Photonic Bandgap Materials; High Tc Superconductors.