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Centers and Networks
A highly significant impact of the NNI has been the focused investment by NNI-participating agencies in the establishment and development of multidisciplinary research and education centers devoted to nanoscience and nanotechnology. NNI agencies have developed an extensive infrastructure of more than 90 major interdisciplinary research and education centers and user facilities across the United States.
NNI Centers and Networks of Excellence
Government funds for nanotechnology research have created some of the most sophisticated nanoscience laboratories in the world. In addition to providing the facilities, the NNI also has created programs to attract researchers across an array of disciplines to facilitate discoveries.
Centers and networks provide opportunities and support for multidisciplinary research among investigators from a variety of disciplines and from different research sectors, including academia, industry and government laboratories. Such multidisciplinary research not only leads to advances in knowledge but also fosters relationships that enhance the transition of basic research results to devices and other applications.
The multidisciplinary centers are listed below, organized by funding agency:
Department of Defense
Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Center for Nanoscience Innovation for Defense
University of California-Santa Barbara, Riverside and Los Angeles
Institute for Nanoscience
Naval Research Laboratory
DARPA Center on Nanoscale Science and Technology for Integrated Micro/Nano-Electromechanical Transducers (iMINT)
University of Colorado
National Institutes of Health
Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL)NCL at the National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD (also a User Facility)
NHLBI Programs of Excellence in NanotechnologyIntegrated Nanosystems for Diagnosis and Therapy Nanotechnology: Detection & Analysis of Plaque Formation Nanotherapy for Vulnerable Plaque Translational Program of Excellence in Nanotechnology
National Cancer Institute's (NCI)
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Nanomedicine Development CentersCenter for the Optical Control of Biological Functions Center for Cell Control Phi2 DNA-Packing Motor for Nanomedicine Nanomedicine Center for Nucleoprotein Machines National Center for Design of Biomimetic Nanoconductors Center for Protein Folding Machinery Nanomedicine Center for Mechanobiology Engineering Cellular Control: Synthetic Signaling and Motility Systems
NCI Cancer Nanotechnology Training CentersBoston University Cross-Disciplinary Training in Nanotechnology for Cancer Integrative Cancer Nanoscience and Microsystems Training Center Midwest Cancer Nanotechnology Training Center (M-CNTC) The Johns Hopkins Cancer Nanotechnology Training Center The University of Kentucky Cancer Nanotechnology Training Center UCSD Cancer Nanotechnology Training Center |
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Nanotechnology Research Center, Robert A. Taft Lab
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
NIST Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST)
CNST's nanoFab (also listed under User Facilities.)
National Science Foundation with the Environmental Protection Agency
Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEINT) at Duke University
UC CEIN Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEIN) at University of California – Los Angeles