AVS 64th International Symposium & Exhibition
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Opportunities for Users at the Center for Nanoscale Materials

Thursday, November 2, 2017, 2:40 pm, Room 18

Session: Working with Government Labs and User Facilities
Presenter: Kathleen Carrado Gregar, 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. As a Department of Energy (DOE) funded research center, the CNM is at the forefront of discovery science that addresses national grand challenges encompassing the topics of energy, information, materials and the environment. The scientific strategy of the CNM is consolidated under the following three crosscutting and interdependent scientific themes. Collectively, they aim at the discovery and hierarchical integration of materials across different length scales, at the extremes of temporal, spatial, and energy resolutions: (a) Quantum materials and phenomena (b) Manipulating nanoscale interactions, and (c) Synthesis of nano-architectures for energy, information and functionality. Embedded within these three themes and supporting them are the vector capabilities of X-ray microscopy, electron microscopy, and computational materials science.

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. 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.