| AVS 64th International Symposium & Exhibition | |
| Manufacturing Science and Technology Group | Thursday Sessions |
| Session MS-ThA |
| Session: | Working with Government Labs and User Facilities |
| Presenter: | Arthur Baddorf, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Correspondent: | Click to Email |
The Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a DOE Office of Science User Facility that provides a national and international user community access to expertise and equipment for a broad range of nanoscience research, including nanomaterials synthesis, nanofabrication, imaging/microscopy/characterization, and theory/modeling/simulation. CNMS also acts as gateway for the nanoscience community to benefit from ORNL’s neutron sources (SNS and HFIR) and computational resources. CNMS facilities are accessible based on peer-reviewed proposals and are offered at no cost to users who intend to publish their results.
In addition to a broad assortment of nanomaterials characterization tools, the CNMS has particular expertise in the following capabilities:
• Nanofabrication - The CNMS Nanofabrication Research Laboratory houses 10,000 ft2 of class 100/1000 clean room space for material modification using advanced lithographic, etching, thin-film deposition, and characterization tools.
• Bio-Inspired Nanomaterials - The CNMS offers capabilities to manipulate and image hydrated biological samples, and to create inorganic nanostructures of biological interest.
• Inorganic and Hybrid Nanomaterials Synthesis - Synthesis of nanostructures and thin films are performed by CVD and PLD with real-time diagnostics, including 2D layered materials, carbon nanostructures, oxide films, as well as hybrid organic/inorganic perovskite films, with wet/dry assembly of these materials into optoelectronic device architectures.
• Macromolecular Nanomaterials Synthesis - Laboratories include a wide range of polymer synthesis capabilities with special emphasis on selective deuteration and ionic polymerization
• Chemical Imaging – In addition to elemental distribution, bonding and chemical configuration is obtained using energy and mass spectroscopies.
• Electron and Atom Probe Microscopy - Sub-Ångstrom electron microscopy and spectroscopy, soft-matter TEM, and atom probe and electron tomographies are available.
• Scanning Probe Microscopy - Scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopies and spectroscopies in a range of environments for mapping of physical and electronic structure, electronic and ionic transport, spin, thermovoltage, electromechanics, magnetism, and dissipation.
• Nanomaterials Theory Institute - The NTI provides and advances capabilities for theory and high-performance simulation to enable fundamental understanding of physical and chemical properties of nanoscale materials.