Facilities
Researchers at the International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN) and their partners in academia, industry, and national laboratories have access to excellent user facilities for characterization based on electron, ion, and photon radiation, as well as scanning probe techniques. Shared facilities are available for maintaining mechanical/electronic scattering and biophysics/biochemistry instrumentation. The IIN has provided support for major instrumentation housed in many of these shared facilities. Some of the available facilities are listed below, including links to their sites.
- Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory (CNM)
- Life Sciences Collaborative Access Team (LS-CAT)
- DuPont, Northwestern, Dow Collaborative Access Team (DND-CAT)
- Northwestern University Atomic and Nanoscale Characterization Experimental (NUANCE) Center
- Scanned Probe Imaging and Development
- Electron Probe Instrumentation Center (EPIC)
- Keck Interdisciplinary Surface Science (Keck-II) Center
- Integrated Molecular Structure Education and Research Center (IMSERC)
- J.B. Cohen X-ray Diffraction Facility
- Biological Imaging Facility (BIF)
- Northwestern University Micro/Nano Fabrication Facility (NUFAB)
- Center for Advanced Molecular Imaging (CAMI)
- Quantitative Bioelemental Imaging Center (QBIC)
- High Throughput Analysis Laboratory (HTA)
The Center for Nanofabrication and Molecular Self-Assembly (now known as Ryan Hall) is one of the first federally and privately funded facilities of its kind in the world. This ~40,000 square-foot building encompasses wet laboratories, shared microscope and laser facilties, offices, seminar/conference rooms, and support space for researchers working at the nanoscale.
There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" was a lecture given by physicist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman at an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech on December 29,1959. Feynman considered the possibility of direct manipulation of individual atoms. The talk is considered to be a groundbreaking event in the history of nanotechnology, as it inspired the conceptual beginnings of the field decades later.
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