Atomic Level Tailoring of a Material's Response to Achieve a Specific Functionality.
The Brookhaven National Laboratory Center for Functional Nanomaterials will provide researchers with
state-of-the-art capabilities to fabricate and study nanoscale materials. Functional materials are those
which exhibit a predetermined chemical or physical response to external stimuli. The Center's focus is to
achieve a basic understanding of how these materials respond when in nanoscale form. Nanomaterials--typically on
the scale of billionths of a meter--offer different chemical and physical properties than bulk materials, and
have the potential to form the basis of new technologies.
