A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute (DNI)
Technology: Various
The DNI coordinates and develops efforts at Drexel University in area of nanoscale science and engineering, including research, undergraduate and graduate education, technology transfer, outreach, and dissemination. Read More…
Carnegie Mellon Nanofabrication Facility
Technology: Development
Facilities for thin film and nano/micro device development. Read More…
Carnegie Mellon University – Center for Nano-enabled Device and Energy Technologies (CNXT)
Technology: Materials
The mission of the Center is to work on real-world problems that can potentially be solved with appropriate nano-enabled technologies. The unifying theme of the Center is nanometer-scale materials that are deliberately synthesized, self-assembled, assisted to self-assemble, or structured by engineering know-how to create novel properties, processes, or principles. Read More…
Carnegie Mellon University – Center for Silicon System Implementation
Technology: Electronics
The Center for Silicon System Implementation (CSSI) is focused on all aspects of integrated system design and manufacturing that spans from network-on-achip architectures to self-adaptable analog and digital circuits, to ultra low-power nano devices, bio chips, and the CAD methodologies that enable them. Read More…
Carnegie Mellon University – Nanorobotics Lab
Technology: Robotics
The NanoRobotics Lab focuses on two major research questions: understanding the principles of design and control of a single and a large number of miniature mobile robots and the principles of robust intelligence (perception, action and learning) of miniature robots to operate in unstructured environments. Its novel miniature robots (down to micron scale overall sizes) are aimed to be used in medical, bioengineering, micro-manufacturing, mobile sensor networks, and space applications. Read More…
Drexel University – Biological Acuation, Sensing & Transport Laboratory
Technology: Life Sciences
An interdisciplinary experimental group that is developing small scale materials and devices for biological applications. The ongoing research program can be broadly categorized into three core subject areas: transport phenomena, bioinspired systems design and fabrication, and single molecule biophysics. Read More…
Drexel University – Mesoscale Materials Laboratory
Technology: Electronics
The Mesoscale Materials Laboratory investigates and advances new and enabling environmentally-friendly oxide materials, and thin film growth science and technology for complex oxides, including ferroelectrics. We produce and study the light-matter interactions in bulk and in films, and at interfaces, and on surfaces. These systems exhibit unexpected properties, promising for high-efficiency photovoltaic solar energy conversion and for low-power electronics. Read More…
Drexel University – NanoBiomechanics Laboratory
Technology: Life Sciences
The NanoBiomechanics Lab focuses on problems in biophysics and biomechanics of extracellular matrix, and more generally, the inner beings of mechanical features of polymer and biopolymer complexes. These problems are motivated by diseases of soft connective tissues including osteoarthritis in the knee and temporomandibular joint. Read More…
Drexel University – Nanomaterials Group (NMG)
Technology: Materials
Research in the Nanomaterials Group is focused on the fundamental and applied aspects of synthesis and characterization of carbon nanomaterials (nanotubes, nanodiamond and nanoporous carbons), ceramic nanoparticles (whiskers, nanowires, etc.) and composites. Read More…
Lehigh Emerging Technologies Network
Technology: Facilitator
Formerly the Lehigh Nanotech Network, the Lehigh Emerging Technologies Network is a diverse group of business, education, government, economic development, and services/consulting members. Together we discover applications, research, funding opportunities, and educational initiatives, as well as advance the understanding, development, and commercialization of novel materials technology. Read More…
Lehigh University – Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
Technology: Various
The Center for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (CAMN) is a multi-disciplinary hub for research and education at Lehigh University, with a mission to foster fundamental and applied research focused on the development and characterization of materials and processes, support cross-disciplinary collaboration and synergy, and pursue broad integrative research center activities and funding. Read More…
Penn State – Acoustofluidics Laboratory
Technology: Life Sciences
The Penn State Acoustofluidics group is a multidisciplinary research team that conducts research at the interface of physics, materials, engineering, and biomedicine. Our major research interest is to develop innovative acoustofluidic (i.e., fusion of acoustics and fluid mechanics) technologies and use them to solve challenging problems in the fields of biological studies, medical diagnostics, and therapeutics. Our group also has substantial expertise in optofluidics, microfluidics, MEMS/NEMS, and nanophotonics. Read More…
Penn State – Mallouk Research Group
Technology: Manufacturing; Materials
The Mallouk group at Penn State takes a building block or ‘Lego’ approach to the synthesis of interesting inorganic materials from the bottom up. Some of this research is very fundamental in nature and is designed to learn the rules of assembly of objects on the nanometer and micron length scales. Read More…
Penn State – Center for Nanoscale Science
Technology: Manufacturing; Materials
Penn State’s Center for Nanoscale Science was established as an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center to carry out interdiciplinary and eductaional outreach in the areas of Molecular Nanofabrication, Biomolecular Motors, and Collective Phenomena in Restricted Geometries. Read More…
Penn State – Center for Nanotechnology Education and Utilization (CNEU)
Technology: Manufacturing; Materials
CNEU is the home of the Pennsylvania Nanofabrication Manufacturing Technology (NMT) Partnership and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Regional Center for Nanofabrication Manufacturing Education. It is dedicated to research, development, and education across all aspects of micro- and nanotechnology. The Center resources are focused on addressing the incorporation of nanotechnology into secondary education, into post-secondary education, and into industry applications. Read More…
Penn State – Center for Two Dimensional and Layered Materials
Technology: Materials
The mission of the Center for Two Dimensional and Layered Materials is to conduct leading international and multidisciplinary research on 2D layered materials aiming at finding new phenomena and applications, that could be transformed into high impact products. The Center offers a unique, vertically integrated research education to graduate and undergraduate students, with extremely valuable components including state-of-the-art infrastructure, and research environment. Read More…
Penn State – Nanofabrication Lab
Technology: Materials
The general theme of the Nanofabrication Laboratory’s core areas is the ability to handle non-standard materials alongside the more common materials. Procedures are in place to handle a wide variety of research that often uses non-standard materials. Read More…
Penn State – Nanofabrication Laboratory
Technology: Manufacturing
The Penn State Nanofab offers expertise in ‘top-down’ (e.g. deposition, etching) and ‘bottom up’ (e.g. self-assembling films) nanofabrication. Read More…
Penn State – The Sen Group
Technology: Materials
Polymers, materials and nanomotor research. Read More…
University of Pennsylvania – Fischer Group
Technology: Electronics
The research of the Fischer group at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of Materials Science and Engineering covers the novel nanomaterial systems such as carbon nanotube and semiconductor nanowires. Read More…
University of Pennsylvania – Nano/Bio Interface Center
Technology: Life Sciences
The Nano/Bio Interface Center at the University of Pennsylvania is a Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) bringing together researchers from the Schools of Engineering and Applied Science; Arts and Sciences; and Medicine. The Center unites investigators from ten departments to provide, not only new directions for the life sciences, but also for engineering in a two-way flow essential to fully realizing the benefits of nano-biotechnology. Read More…
University of Pennsylvania – Singh Center for Nanotechnology
Technology: Various
The Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology integrates state-of-the-art nanocharacterization, nanofabrication, and property measurement facilities at the University of Pennsylvania. The Singh Center is centered around four major research facilities, all featuring state-of-the-art equipment for nanoscale characterization, measurement, and fabrication: the Quattrone Nanofabrication Facility, the Nanoscale Characterization Facility, the Scanning and Local Probe Facility, and the Material Property Measurement Facility. Read More…
University of Pittsburgh – Petersen Institute of NanoScience and Engineering
Technology: Various
The Peterson Institute of NanoScience and Engineering is an integrated, multidisciplinary organization that brings coherence to the University’s research efforts and resources in the fields of nanoscale science and engineering. Read More…
University of Pittsburgh – Star Research Group
Technology: Molecular Recognition
Research interests of this group are in areas of molecular recognition at nanoscale and nanotechnology enabled chemical and biological sensing. Read More…
Villanova University – Nanotechnology Laboratory
Technology: Various
Villanova has strived to develop state-of-the-art nanotechnology research facilities all over campus. We are exploring the growth and use of carbon nanofibers for thermal management, and as catalyst supports. We are also growing metallic nanoparticles and depositing nano-thick films on surfaces. We are exploring self-assembled monolayer (layers that are one molecule thick) for lubrication of small devices and as corrosion inhibition. Finally, we are beginning to develop molecular wires. Read More…