Materials Science Nanomaterials Programs and Projects

The transmission of information in today’s electronics requires the movement of electrical charge, which expends energy and generates … more

The semiconductor industry’s remarkable progress in making integrated circuits smaller, faster and cheaper relies on continual … more

The Nanotube Metrology project is dedicated to improving the measurement methods for, and fundamental understanding of, single-wall carbon … more

Our goal is to develop certified reference materials, standard test methods, measurements, and critical data for the physicochemical … more

This project provides measurement solutions that probe the surface and internal structure of polymer membranes used in water purification, and … more

Local mechanical-property information is essential to evaluate emerging micro- and nanoscale materials, which many manufacturers would like to … more

Over the past decade nanoscale science has produced varied and fascinating nanostructures with an extraordinary range of interesting and useful … more

Our goal is to develop advanced measurement tools and standards for measuring polymer scaffold properties and their impact on biological … more

This project develops low-energy transmission electron diffraction, imaging, and spectroscopy in the scanning electron microscope, to enable … more

This project provides a resource to address some of the challenges to the wider use of quantitative classical atomistic simulations (e.g. … more

We are developing best practice metrology for characterization of magnetic nanoparticle systems (e.g. blocking temperature, anisotropy, property … more

Ultraviolet photoemission electron microscopy is used to study the field emission of chromium oxide coated carbon nanosheets.

Our goal is to develop quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) instrumentation and advanced oscillators with enhanced sensitivity to … more

Our goal is to develop new methods to rapidly screen bulk carbon nanotubes for chemical purity and homogeneity. The different synthesis routes … more

Scientists and engineers currently have a growing library of synthetic microscale and nanoscale swimmers which affect the hydrodynamics of their … more