NNI Centers and Networks

Nanoscale Science Research Centers

Five user facilities, called the Nanoscale Science Research Centers (NSRCs), are now under construction at national laboratories supported by the Department of Energy. The research facilities will focus on synthesis, processing, and fabrication of nanoscale materials. They will be co-located with existing user facilities to provide sophisticated characterization and analysis capabilities.

Specialized equipment and support staff will be available to the research community at the NSRCs, where access will be determined by peer review of proposals. The NSRCs listed below were conceived with broad input from university and industry user communities in order to define the scope of the equipment suite within each facility. They have been reviewed by external peers and by DOE’s Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee.

Nanoscale Science Research Centers, under design or construction, are:

Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

For more information on Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology Research at DOE, including the NSRCs, see DOE's office of Basic Energy Sciences.

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Argonne National Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Sandia National Laboratory