• Celebrating National Physical Fitness and Sports Month

    Celebrating National Physical Fitness and Sports Month

    For National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, we celebrate advances in nanotechnology that are transforming the practice of sports by improving footballs, tennis racquets, and racecar tires. Read more

  • Impacts of Multidisciplinarity: A Conversation with Celia Merzbacher

    Impacts of Multidisciplinarity: A Conversation with Celia Merzbacher

    This week’s podcast celebrating the 15-year anniversary of the NNI highlights the connection between nanotechnology and quantum information science and technology. Our guest is Dr. Celia Merzbacher of QEDC. Read more

  • Manipulating atoms one at a time with an electron beam

    Manipulating atoms one at a time with an electron beam

    Scientists have developed a method that can reposition atoms with a highly focused electron beam and control their exact location and bonding orientation. The advance could lead to new ways of making quantum computing devices or sensors. Read more

  • Creating Next-Generation Flexible Electronics

    Creating Next-Generation Flexible Electronics

    Researchers have created a novel, flexible dielectric material that could help manufacturers who are working on creating next-generation flexible electronics. Read more

  • Using Plants to Produce Light

    Using Plants to Produce Light

    Researchers are working on using light-emitting plants, which debuted in 2017, as part of sunlight harvesting, water transport, and soil collecting and composting systems. Read more

  • Researchers develop environmentally friendly alternative to Styrofoam

    Researchers develop environmentally friendly alternative to Styrofoam

    Researchers have developed an environmentally friendly, plant-based material that, for the first time, works better than Styrofoam for insulation. Read more

  • Vaccine Design Can Dramatically Improve Cancer Immunotherapies

    Vaccine Design Can Dramatically Improve Cancer Immunotherapies

    Researchers have demonstrated that a vaccine made with spherical nucleic acids was able to eliminate tumors in 30% of animal models and improved their overall survival from cancer. Read more

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  • Celebrating National Physical Fitness and Sports Month
  • Impacts of Multidisciplinarity: A Conversation with Celia Merzbacher
  • Manipulating atoms one at a time with an electron beam
  • Creating Next-Generation Flexible Electronics
  • Using Plants to Produce Light
  • Researchers develop environmentally friendly alternative to Styrofoam
  • Vaccine Design Can Dramatically Improve Cancer Immunotherapies
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Meetings and Events

May 2019: Baltimore, MD

8th International Conference on Bioengineering and Nanotechnology

Jun 2019: Newry, ME

Gordon Research Conference: Environmental Nanotechnology: Preventing and Solving Problems with Environmental Nanotechnology

Jun 2019: Chiba, Japan

2019 International Conference on Nanotechnology for Renewable Materials

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Current Solicitations

Jun 3, 2019

NSF: Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students (INTERN) Supplemental Funding

Jun 3, 2019

NSF: Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes (QLCI) [NSF 19-559]

Jun 6, 2019

NSF: Real-Time Machine Learning (RTML) [NSF 19-566]

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Nanotechnology Signature Initiatives and Nanotechnology-Inspired Grand Challenges

The National Nanotechnology Initiative has focused efforts in areas of national importance to enhance coordination and collaboration among the participating agencies and to engage with the public: Nanotechnology Signature Initiatives and Nanotechnology-Enabled Grand Challenges.
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Nanotechnology Research and Development Infrastructure

The National Nanotechnology Initiative has a robust research infrastructure with user facilities and multidisciplinary research and education centers across the United States.
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Responsible Development of Nanotechnology

As a goal of the NNI since inception, responsible development includes understanding potential environmental, health, and safety (EHS) implications of nanomaterials as well as the ethical, legal, and societal implications (ELSI) of nanotechnology.
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Nanotechnology Commercialization

NNI agencies are collaborating with industry to facilitate the commercialization of federally funded nanotechnology discoveries.
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Teaching about Nanotechnology

These resources can help K–12 teachers  incorporate nanotechnology in their classrooms.
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Networks and Communities

The NNCO facilitates various networks and communities, including the U.S. Nano and Emerging Tech Student and Teacher Networks, the U.S.-EU Communities of Research, and a developing Entrepreneurship Community of Interest.
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15-Year Anniversary of the NNI

To celebrate the 15-year anniversary of the NNI, special episodes of the Stories from the NNI podcast series will showcase experts from academia, government, and industry who will provide their perspectives on key research and development advances in nanotechnology and how the NNI has changed the nanotechnology landscape.
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Learn about Nanotechnology

This newly updated NNI brochure introduces basic concepts in nanotechnology. Big Things from a Tiny World provides a general overview or nanotechnology and how it is used today.