Nanotechnology Research - Universities

The Alivisatos Group is a research group at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Seung-Wuk Lee's research group uses chemical and biological approaches to create precisely defined nanomaterials, to investigate complex phenomena at their interfaces, and to develop novel, biomimetic, functional materials. Specifically, they focus on bone and its basic building blocks to study the fundamental mechanisms of bone mineralization and resorption and to develop bioinspired functional materials and devices.

The Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center at QB3-Berkeley provides tools and services for the design, fabrication, and evaluation of micro- and nano-scale devices for medicine and biology. The center supports CAD, modeling, fabrication, analysis, testing with biological specimens, microfluidic biomedical device training, and non-conventional micro/nano fabrication techniques.

The Crommie Group is a condensed matter research group located at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The group integrates scanned probe microscopy with other experimental techniques to investigate structural, electronic, optical, and magnetic behavior of low-dimensional one- and two-dimensional nanostructures.

The Javey Research Lab at UC Berkeley focuses on materials innovation for enabling new device structures and concepts. The lab studies electronic materials in planar and three-dimensional geometries and develops ways to manipulate, process, and engineer materials at ultimate limits to enable new properties and functions.

ENSI, partnered with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, brings together some of the world?s top researchers from across the fields of materials science, physics, engineering, and biology. Their investigations into nature?s ways of managing energy at the nanoscale will lead to real change in our capacity to generate, store, and use energy. Together, these researchers aim to improve the performance of existing energy technologies and develop entirely new ways of harnessing energy for the world?s growing population.

The Yang research group is interested in the synthesis of new classes of materials and nanostructures, with an emphasis on developing new synthetic approaches and understanding the fundamental issues of structural assembly and growth that will enable the rational control of material composition, micro/nano-structure, property and functionality.

The Ultrafast Nano-Optics Group probes and controls light-matter interactions in condensed matter systems, emphasizing nanoscale structures, quantum phenomena in low-dimensional materials, and optical spectroscopy with broadband energy tunability, polarization control, nanometer spatial resolution and femtosecond temporal resolution.

The Zettl research group in the Department of Physics at U.C. Berkeley and in the Materials Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory currently investigates electronic, magnetic and mechanical properties of nanoscale materials such as fullerenes, carbon and non-carbon nanotubes.

The group works at the intersection of physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science. They use a multidisciplinary approach to design, synthesize, and characterize biologically inspired materials for applications in unconventional electronic devices.