» Advanced Platform for Nanotechnology Development

• Enhanced TEM imaging and sample preparation.
• Technology development in a broad range of disciplines through integrated multi-technique analysis.
• Integrated multifunctional devices through multi-probe addressable substrate.

» Engineered Interfaces and Nanosystems

• Multifunctional nanoparticles with tunable properties.
• Integrated ensembles of nanomaterials: arrays, engineering and biological systems, composite particles.
• Addresses critical problems in medicine/biology, clean technology, nanoelectronics, and optics.
• Applications include: medical diagnostics/therapeutics, biomaterial interfaces, catalysis, display technologies, solar cells, sensors, and functional coatings.

» Core Competencies

• Design, synthesis and processing of nanoparticles with controlled composition and size: metals, alloys, metal oxides and nitrides.
• Customized and tunable interfaces of nanomaterials and surfaces for enhanced materials compatibility.
• Manipulation and assembly of nanomaterials through maskless nanolithography.
• Multidimensional characterization of interfaces, nanoparticles and, and nanoparticles assemblies.