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User Opportunities at the Center for Nanoscale Materials: From Hybrid Nanomaterials to Tailoring Nanoscale Interactions

Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 4:40 pm, Room 114

The mission of the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) user facility at Argonne National Laboratory is to provide expertise, instrumentation, and infrastructure for interdisciplinary nanoscience and nanotechnology research by scientists and engineers from academia, industry, and government agencies. The Center's goal is to support and explore ways to create functional hybrid nanomaterials and to tailor nanoscale interactions for energy-related research and development programs. The CNM addresses grand challenges in energy and information conversion and transport, while furthering the Department of Energy (DOE) missions in energy generation, storage, and efficiency. Unique capabilities at CNM include a large clean room, expansive synthesis and nanofabrication resources, a hard x-ray nanoprobe at the Advanced Photon Source synchrotron, myriad scanning probes including low temperature, ultrahigh vacuum STMs, TEMs with in situ holders and chromatic aberration-correction, a 30 TFlop supercomputer, oxide MBE, and ultrafast optical probes. Another CNM asset includes outstanding staff with expertise in nanocrystal and nanoparticle synthesis, complex metal oxides, nanophotonics, plasmonics, scanning probe microscopy, nanofabrication, functional bio-inorganic hybrid nanomaterials, and theory, simulation and modeling. Core technological materials range from photocatalysts to graphene to nanocrystalline diamond. All of these capabilities and expertise are available to the international research community through peer-reviewed user proposals; access is free of charge for allocated non-proprietary research in the public domain. CNM is one of DOE's premier Nanoscale Science Research Centers serving as the basis for a national program encompassing new science, new tools, and new computing capabilities for research at the nanoscale (https://nsrcportal.sandia.gov). Recent staff and user research highlights will be presented, painting a picture of present and future nanoscience and nanotechnology at the CNM (www.anl.gov/cnm).

The Center for Nanoscale Materials, an Office of Science user facility, is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under contract no. DE-AC-02-06CH11357.