• Celebrating National Chemistry Week

    Celebrating National Chemistry Week

    For National Chemistry Week, we celebrate the role of nanotechnology in developing synthetic catalysts that produce chemicals much the same way enzymes do in living organisms. Read more

  • Tackling Energy Issues with Nanotechnology: A Conversation with Leonardo Spanu

    Tackling Energy Issues with Nanotechnology: A Conversation with Leonardo Spanu

    This week’s Stories from the NNI podcast highlights the use of nanotechnology in energy. Our guest is Dr. Leonardo Spanu of Shell. Read more

  • Improving the performance of lithium-ion batteries

    Improving the performance of lithium-ion batteries

    Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of lithium-ion batteries! On this occasion. we also celebrate the role nanotechnology plays in improving the performance of lithium-ion batteries. Read more

  • Making glass less likely to break (could be good for your cell phone!)

    Making glass less likely to break (could be good for your cell phone!)

    If you’ve ever dropped your smartphone on a concrete floor, you know that dreaded feeling as you turn it over to see how badly the screen has cracked. Now researchers have discovered a way to make glass less brittle and less likely to break. Read more

  • Nanoelectrode Chip to Study Neuronal Network Activity of Thousands of Cells

    Nanoelectrode Chip to Study Neuronal Network Activity of Thousands of Cells

    To help study entire neuronal networks comprising thousands of interconnected cells, researchers have created an electronic chip on which neurons can grow while their electrical activity is closely monitored. Read more

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  • Celebrating National Chemistry Week
  • Tackling Energy Issues with Nanotechnology: A Conversation with Leonardo Spanu
  • Improving the performance of lithium-ion batteries
  • Making glass less likely to break (could be good for your cell phone!)
  • Nanoelectrode Chip to Study Neuronal Network Activity of Thousands of Cells
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Meetings and Events

Oct 2019: Cambridge, MA

National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) Annual Conference

Nov 2019: Richmond, VA

International Symposium on Clusters and Nanomaterials

Nov 2019: Braga, Portugal

Organization for Economic Cooperation (OECD) Working Party on Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Converging Technologies (BNCT) Workshop

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Current Solicitations

TBD

DOE: DE-FOA-0002020: FY 2019 Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) Multi-Topic Request For Information (RFI)

Nov 4, 2019

NSF: EMERGING FRONTIERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (EFRI): Distributed Chemical Manufacturing (DCheM) and Engineering the Elimination of End-of-Life Plastics (E3P) (EFRI-2020)

June 28, 2017; October 11, 2017; February 14, 2018, June 28, 2018; October 11, 2018; February 14, 2019; June 28, 2019; October 11, 2019; February 14, 2020, by 5:00 PM

NIH: Early Phase Clinical Trials in Imaging and Image-Guided Interventions (R01) [PAR-17-167]

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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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NNCO Newsletter

Read about the National Nanotechnology Coordination Center's latest activities and projects.
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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.