| AVS 63rd International Symposium & Exhibition | |
| Manufacturing Science and Technology | Tuesday Sessions |
| Session MS-TuA |
| Session: | Working with National Labs and User Facilities |
| Presenter: | Kathleen Carrado Gregar, Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory |
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The Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) at Argonne National Laboratory is a premier user facility providing expertise, instrumentation, and infrastructure for interdisciplinary nanoscience and nanotechnology research. Academic, industrial, and international researchers can access the center through its user program for both nonproprietary (at no cost) and proprietary research.
The CNM is at the forefront of discovery of new materials, visualizing events with high resolution as they occur, understanding the physics and chemistry of energetic processes at the nanoscale, and manipulating nanoscale interactions to create useful, energy-efficient structures with new functionalities. Goals include the hierarchical integration of materials across the nanoscale to the mesoscale, in order to create energy-efficient and affordable functionality that advance the public good.
Unique capabilities at CNM include a premier clean room with advanced lithography and deposition capabilities, 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, and ultrafast optical probes. A key CNM asset includes outstanding staff with expertise in synthesis, nanophotonics, scanning probe and electron microscopy, nanofabrication, and theory, simulation and modeling. Core technological materials range from 2D layered materials to nanocrystalline diamond. All capabilities and expertise are available through peer-reviewed user proposals; access is free of charge for 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.