Non-NNI Reports

Report of the workshop held April 22-24, 2015 in Arlington, VA, USA.

To view this report, visit http://engineering.utep.edu/useu2dworkshop/docs/FinalReport_NSF_US_EU_Workshop_on_2D_LayeredMaterialsAndDevices2015.pdf

The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) is a crosscutting national vision for nanotechnology development in the United States. The Federal effort in nanotechnology coordinates U.S. investment in research and development (R&D) in nanoscale science, engineering, technology, and related activities across the U.S. Government. In FY2014, even though five agencies garnered 93 percent of the Federal spending in nanotechnology R&D, 27 agency units from 20 top‐level Federal entities participated in nanotechnology activities.

With the creation of the National Nanotechnology Initiative in 2001 and the selection of six outstanding research universities to lead the creation of six National Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers (NSEC), the opportunity to impact K-12 science curriculum with a new and compelling focus on nanoscience and technology is at hand.  However, it is recognized that research scientists are often frustrated in trying to provide information to the K-12 schools to update science and mathematics curriculum.  Teachers within those systems are sometimes similarly frustrated.  This