Nanotechnology Research - Universities

The laboratory of Tabbetha Dobbins uses synchrotron X-ray and neutron scattering to characterize nanostructured and nanoconfined materials, including metal hydrides studied for hydrogen storage.

The Rutgers' MSE program encourages students to select an area of focus in one or more of the following areas: Biomaterials, Nanomaterials, Energy Conversion and Storage, Polymers, Electronic and Optical Materials, Packaging Materials.

The Fei Zhang Group focuses on the design, construction, and application of DNA and RNA nanostructures and nanodevices, including programmable 2D and 3D nanostructures that can interface with functional materials for biosensing, drug delivery, bioimaging, and molecular computing.

The Hybrid Micro/Nanomanufacturing Laboratory at Rutgers Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering translates the properties of functional nanostructures into mass-manufactured complex architectures using combinations of bottom-up and top-down, or large-area and small-area, lithographic techniques.

The Institute for Advanced Materials, Devices and Nanotechnology focuses on science and technology driven by atomic-scale and nanoscale manipulation of materials, and provides shared nanofabrication and electron microscopy facilities spanning physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering.

A university nanofabrication center focused on integrated carbon, polymer and silicon microfabrication and nanotechnology, supporting research and student training in areas such as MEMS, neural probes, graphene processing and organic solar cells.

The Biological Micro/Nanosystems Laboratory at Santa Clara University develops micro/nanoscale systems for biomedical engineering. Research focuses on microfluidic and MEMS devices, affordable point-of-care diagnostics for resource-limited settings, environmental monitoring, biosensors, microfabrication, nucleic acid detection, electrochemistry, and electrophoresis.

The Center for Nanostructures at Santa Clara University conducts, promotes, and nurtures interdisciplinary nanoscale science and technology research and education. The center brings together engineering and science faculty and students and provides equipment including scanning electron microscopy, nanomanipulation, electrical measurement, wafer probing, and atomic force microscopy resources.

The TENT Laboratory, Thermal and Electrical Nanoscale Transport, is part of Santa Clara University's Center for Nanostructures. It conducts interdisciplinary research and education in nanoscale science and technology and builds on partnerships with NASA Ames Research Center, Applied Materials, Hitachi High Technologies America, and other organizations.

The primary research objective of CAAN is to conduct research in nanotechnology with a strong potential for commercialization. The research to be conducted will be focused in areas of current expertise, namely, nanoparticles and associated aspects of nanosensors.