NSRC Capabilities
Each Nanoscale Science Research Center has particular strengths in different areas of nanoscale research. The complimentary capabilities of the NSRCs and their synergy with other facilities in the hosting laboratories make the NSRC Program unique in the world.
To search all capabilities within the NSRC program, please enter a search term in the box above, such as a technique, material, or instrument. Below each capability search result is a list of keywords, click one to focus the search results on that keyword.
The list of specialties below identifies of some of the focal areas of each center.
Create
CFN
Block Co-polymer Self-Assembly
DNA-Mediated Self-Assembly of Nanomaterials
Electrophoretic Deposition of Nanomaterials
CINT
Giant Nanocrystal Quantum Dots
Semiconductor Nanowires
Biomimetic Membranes
Metamaterials
High-Mobility MBE
CNMS
Stable-isotope labeled soft matter
Carbon nanostructures
Chemistry in confinement
Direct-write EBID nanostructures
Anionic polymer synthesis
Complex oxide heterostructures (PLD)
CNM
Hybrid Nanomaterials
Oxide Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Nanocarbon Materials
Bio inspired hybrid materials
Nanomechanical devices and novel nanofabrication techniques
Engineered nanoparticles
TMF
Bio and biomimetic nanostructures
Robotic synthesis of colloidal nanocrystals
Hybrid organic/inorganic mesoscale materials
Nanostructured porous frameworks
Sub 10 nm nanofabrication
Photonic and mechanical nano-probe
Characterize
CFN
In-Operando Nanocatalyst Characterization by Electron Microscopy and Synchrotron Light-Based Spectroscopy
Aberration-Corrected Environmental Transmission Electron Microscopy
Ambient-Pressure X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy
Aberration-Corrected Photoemission Electron Microscopy
Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy in Electrochemical Environments
Reactor Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
CINT
Discovery Platforms
Nanomechanics
Super-resolution Optical Imaging
Ultrafast Spectroscopy/Carrier Dynamics
Optical Nanoprobes
In Situ Microscopies
CNMS
Band Excitation scanning probe microscopy
STEM Imaging and Spectroscopy
Atom probe and electron tomographies
He-ion microscopy
Operando Electron Microscopy
CNM
Hard X-ray nanoprobe: nano-diffaction, fluorescence, and 3D nanotomography
Ultra high vacuum STM
In Situ and Scanning Probe Microscopies
Non-linear phenomena
Time-resolved UV-VIS-NIR-IR emission and absorption spectroscopy
TMF
High resolution electron scattering
In-situ probing and imaging
Imaging of magnetic surfaces
Hyperspectral Nano-optical dynamic Imaging
Tomography of single proteins and nanoparticles
Ultrasensitive Liquid AFM
Understand
CFN
Bridging from Atomic-scale Theory to Nanoscale Phenomena
Theory of Directed Assembly in Soft and BioNanomaterials
CINT
Classical DFT at Interfaces
Non-adiabatic DFT
Soft Material Molecular Dynamics
CNMS
Computational electronic structure theory
Large-scale ab-initio molecular dynamics
Computational quantum many-body theory
Stochastic interactions in confinement
CNM
Electrodynamics, quantum dynamics of light-matter interactions
DFT, molecular dynamics of molecular conversion and ionic transport
Multiscale energy transport modeling
Atomistic simulations of friction and other physical properties of nanoscale materials
TMF
Interfacial Electronic Structure/Dynamics
Ab initio Excited-States/Spectroscopy/Transport
Statistical Mechanics of Self-Assembly