NNI R&D Centers & 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 100 major interdisciplinary research and education centers and user facilities across the United States.

NNI Research and Development (R&D) Centers and Networks

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-Riverside and UC-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 Nanotechnology

Integrated Nanosystems for Diagnosis and Therapy
Washington University

Nanotechnology: Detection & Analysis of Plaque Formation
Emory University & Georgia Tech

Nanotherapy for Vulnerable Plaque
Burnham Institute

Translational Program of Excellence in Nanotechnology
Massachusetts General Hospital

             

National Cancer Institute's (NCI)
Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence

Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence
University of North Carolina

Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence and Translation
Stanford University

Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence at Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins University

Center for Translational Cancer Nanomedicine
Northeastern University

Dartmouth Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence
Dartmouth University

MIT-Harvard Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence
MIT and Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital

Nanomaterials for Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Northwestern University

Nanosystems Biology Cancer Center 2
California Institute of Technology

Texas Center for Cancer Nanomedicine
The University of Texas Health Science Center and The Methodist Hospital

 

Nanomedicine Development Centers

Center for the Optical Control of Biological Functions
University of California—Berkeley

Center for Cell Control
University of California—Los Angeles

Phi2 DNA-Packing Motor for Nanomedicine
Purdue University

Nanomedicine Center for Nucleoprotein Machines
Georgia Institute of Technology

National Center for Design of Biomimetic Nanoconductors
University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign

Center for Protein Folding Machinery
Baylor University

Nanomedicine Center for Mechanobiology
Columbia University

Engineering Cellular Control: Synthetic Signaling and Motility Systems
University of California—San Francisco

 

NCI Cancer Nanotechnology Training Centers

Boston University Cross-Disciplinary Training in Nanotechnology for Cancer
Boston University

Integrative Cancer Nanoscience and Microsystems Training Center
University of New Mexico

Midwest Cancer Nanotechnology Training Center (M-CNTC)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

The Johns Hopkins Cancer Nanotechnology Training Center
Johns Hopkins University

The University of Kentucky Cancer Nanotechnology Training Center
University of Kentucky

UCSD Cancer Nanotechnology Training Center
University of California San Diego
 

(See the NCI Training Center page for more information.)

 

NIOSH

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), also listed under Nano.gov's 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
 

 

 

National Science Foundation

 

       

Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers (NSECs)

Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing
University of Massachusetts—Amherst

Center for Integrated and Scalable NanoManufacturing (NSEC)
University of California—Los Angeles

Center for Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing Systems (NSEC)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Center on Templated Synthesis and Assembly at the Nanoscale
University of Wisconsin

Center for Probing the Nanoscale
Stanford University

Center for Affordable Nanoengineering of Polymeric Biomedical Devices
Ohio State University

Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems
University of California—Berkeley

Molecular Function at the Nano-Bio Interface Center
University of Pennsylvania

Center for High Rate Nanomanufacturing
Northeastern University

Center for Nanotechnology in Society
Arizona State University

 

Nanosystems Engineering Research Centers

Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technology
North Carolina State University

Nanomanufacturing Systems for Mobile Computing and Mobile Energy Technologies
University of Texas-Austin

Transformational Applications of Nanoscale Multiferroic Systems
University of California—Los Angeles

 

Engineering Research Center

Center for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology
Colorado State University

Smarting Lighting
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute      

Structured Organic Composites
Rutgers University  

Synthetic Biology
University of California-Berkeley

 

Science and Technology Center

Center of Adv. Materials for the Purification of H2O with Systems
University of Illinios-Urbana Champaign

Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology
University of California-Davis

Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science
University of California-Berkeley

Center for Embedded Networked Sensing
University of California-Los Angeles

Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems
MIT

Center on Materials and Devices for Info. Technology Research
University of Washington

 

NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Networks

Network for Computational Nanotechnology

National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network

Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network

Network for Nanotechnology in Society
Arizona State University & University of California-Santa Barbara

 

Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers (MRSECs)

Center for Nanoscale Science
Pennsylvania State University

Center for Quantum and Spin Phenomena in Nanomagnetic Structures
University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Center for Research on Interface Structure and Phenomena
Yale University

Genetically Engineered Materials
University of Washington

Center for Advanced Materials Research
Brown University

Center for the Science & Engineering of Materials
California Institute of Technology

Center for Materials Research
Cornell University

Center for Materials Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Materials Research Science
Northwestern University

Center for Emergent Materials
Ohio State University

Princeton Center for Complex Materials
Princeton University

Materials Research Laboratory
University of California, Santa Barbara

Chicago Materials Research Center
University of Chicago

Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
University of Maryland

Materials Research Science and Engineering Center on Polymers
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
University of Minnesota

Center for Semiconductor Physics in Nanostructures
University of Oklahoma

The Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter
University of Pennsylvania

Center for Nanostructured Interfaces
University of Wiscosin

Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals Materials Research Center
University of Colorado-Boulder

Genetically Engineered Materials Science and Engineering Center
University of Washington

Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
Cargenie Mellon

Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
Johns Hopkins

Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
Harvard University

Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
Georgia Institute of Technology

Renewable Energy Materials Science and Engineering Center
Colorado School of Mines

For more information, visit NSF's MRSECs page.         

 

Centers for Chemical Innovation 

Center for Green Materials Chemistry (phase I)
Oregon State University

Center for Molecular Interfacing (phase I)
Cornell University

Center for Molecular Spintronics (phase I)
North Carolina State University

Center for Molecular Tools for Conjugated Polymer Analysis and Optimization (phase I)
University of Texas-Austin

Center for Nanostructured Electronic Materials (phase I)
University of Florida

Center for Quantum Info & Chemistry (phase I)
Purdue University

                    
 

 

USDA's Forest Service

USDA Forest Service Logo

USDA/FS Cellulose Nanomaterials Pilot Facilities

Process Development Center/ University of Maine School of Forest Resources and the Advance Structures and Composites Center (Maine)

Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory (Wisconsin)