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Ribbon Cutting at the CFNby Mona Rowe
On May 21, 2007, a day sparkling with sunshine and excitement, Brookhaven Lab and the Department of Energy celebrated the official opening of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials. One by one, speakers before the crowd of 350 expressed their vision of the CFN, citing its importance in helping the U.S. achieve energy independence and projecting its attraction for researchers from academic and industrial organizations around the world who study and manipulate materials at the nanoscale. Fittingly, the event took place on the first day of this year’s joint National Synchrotron Light Source and CFN Users’ Meeting. Brookhaven Director Sam Aronson named the powerful suite of tools at the CFN, the NSLS, and the future National Synchrotron Light Source II. He added, “These facilities and the scientific communities that work at them are vital in securing the nation’s energy future.” Said Patricia Dehmer, Associate Director of DOE’s Office of Science for Basic Energy
Sciences, “I spent 23 years in a DOE laboratory and I know what a
wonderful place it is to do research. This provides an opportunity for
generations of new scientists to have the same opportunity that you and
I have had at a DOE laboratory, opening up new fields of research at
the nanoscale, which was not even talked about when I was in school.” 
Wielding the scissors at the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Lab’s new Center for Functional
Nanomaterials is Patricia Dehmer, Associate Director of DOE’s Office of
Science for Basic Energy Sciences. With her (from left) are: Michael
Holland, Head, DOE’s Brookhaven Site Office; Sam Aronson, BNL Director;
Shirley Strum Kenny, President of Stony Brook University and Chair of
Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA); Carl Kohrt, Battelle President and
CEO and BSA Vice-Chair; Emilio Mendez, CFN Director; The Honorable Tim
Bishop, U.S. House of Representatives; and Doon Gibbs, Associate
Laboratory Director for Basic Energy Sciences. 
The assembled crowd at the CFN ribbon cutting ceremony. ------ > Next article: First User Town Hall Meeting |
The Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at Brookhaven National Laboratory
provides state-of-the-art capabilities for the fabrication and study of nanoscale materials,
with an emphasis on atomic-level tailoring to achieve desired properties and functions.The
overarching scientific theme of the CFN is the development and understanding of nanoscale materials
that address the Nations' challenges in energy security, consistent with the Department of Energy mission.
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Patricia Dehmer, Associate Director of DOE’s Office of Science for Basic Energy Sciences, speaking at the CFN ribbon cutting.