Los Alamos National Laboratory is hosting a ceremony to dedicate the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) Facility - part of a $75 million U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science effort to invest in the emerging field of nanoscience. The ceremony is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. August 21 in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Los Alamos National Laboratory is working in conjunction with Sandia National Laboratories, which will be home to a CINT core facility.
"The Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies is a state-of-the-art user facility that will bring collaborators from around to the world to Los Alamos, said Terry Wallace, Principal Associate Director of Science Technology and Engineering at Los Alamos. "I expect CINT to become one of the keys to assuring that LANL's continued scientific vitality, and the discoveries that will come out of work done at CINT will have significant impacts on the issues, such as energy security, that face the nation in the next decade."
Senator Pete Domenici, Senator Jeff Bingaman, and Deputy Secretary of the US Department of Energy Clay Sell are scheduled to attend the event. Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Michael Anastasio and Sandia Senior Vice President and Deputy Laboratory Director for Integrated Technology Programs Alton D. Romig Jr. will be speaking. Other federal and state legislators, along with officials from the DOE and the National Nuclear Security Administration are invited guests.
The 36,500-square-foot CINT Facility at Los Alamos will house Lab scientists, post-doctoral researchers, technical support staff, and visiting researchers. It features roughly 11,000 square feet of laboratory space dedicated to chemical and biological synthesis and characterization, biomaterials fabrication and characterization, optical microcopy and spectroscopy, physical synthesis, thin-film fabrication, spatially resolved scanned probe characterization, and advanced computation.
The 96,000-square-foot Sandia facility also houses a wide variety of laboratory spaces and unique, state-of-the-art instruments that are crucial to the advancement of nanoscience. The work at Sandia will focus on nanomaterials and nanofabrication. The core facility dedication is planned for 10:30 a.m. August 23 in Albuquerque.
Sandia is a multiprogram laboratory operated by Sandia Corporation, a Lockheed Martin company, for the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. With main facilities in Albuquerque, New Mexico., and Livermore, California, Sandia has major R&D responsibilities in national security, energy and environmental technologies, and economic competitiveness.
Los Alamos National Laboratory, a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security, is operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC, a team composed of Bechtel National, the University of California, The Babcock & Wilcox Company, and the Washington Division of URS for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.
Los Alamos enhances national security by ensuring the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile, developing technologies to reduce threats from weapons of mass destruction, and solving problems related to energy, environment, infrastructure, health, and global security concerns.