Nanotechnology Research - Universities

The Center for Integrated Bio and Nano Systems supports interdisciplinary research at the interface of bio and nano systems, with work supported by federal agencies, CPRIT, the Welch Foundation, and the Alliance for Nanohealth.

The Curran Nanotechnology Transformation Group works to accelerate nanotechnology innovations from invention to market and to connect students, business innovators, and inventors with nanotechnology solutions.

The Electrochemical Nanofabrication and Nanomaterials Synthesis Group studies electrochemical interfaces and their use to produce nanomaterials and nanostructures for sensors, magnetic materials, thin films, electrocatalysis, and nanofabrication.

The Karim Research Group studies sustainable materials, nanomaterials for energy, directed self-assembly, and phase behavior in the William A. Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

The University of Houston Nanofabrication Facility is an open-access shared user facility providing microfabrication, nanofabrication, and imaging technology for building and inspecting microscopic devices.

The Tianfu Wu Laboratory at the University of Houston conducts biomedical engineering research involving nanoscale and bioengineering platforms.

Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group center on the structure and function of supramolecular systems in the living cell, and on the development of new algorithms and efficient computing tools for structural biology.

The group is focused on the study of energy transfer in semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs). They are interested in (1) constructing novel semiconductor nanocrystal material systems to engineer energy transfer processes, (2) developing imaging agents based on their NC constructs and (3) bandgap engineering of multilayered nanocrystalline materials.

The general goal of the Molecular & Electronic Nanostructures (M&ENS) Research Initiative at the Beckman Institute is to develop a fundamental understanding of chemical and physical processes involving structures on the nanometer scale.

The Cao Research Lab, based in Materials Science & Engineering and the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, develops advanced materials for electronics and optoelectronics, including new materials and processing techniques for high-performance extremely-scaled devices, next-generation memory for neuromorphic and in-memory computing, and hybrid bioelectronics for healthcare and neuroscience.