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CFN Video Library
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CFN Virtual Tour
Brookhaven Lab scientist Aaron Stein takes viewers on a virtual tour of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, one of the U.S. Department of Energy's five nanoscale science research centers.
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8:16
Chuck Black - Coffee Talk
CFN director Chuck Black welcomes staff and users to the first in-person Wednesday coffee break since March of 2020.
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57:19
Ultrafast Studies of Optically Active Low-Dimensional Nanomaterials
Mircea Cotlet highlights methods used to study charge and energy transfer in nanostructures aimed at harvesting solar energy and detecting light. He also discusses how an ultrafast optical facility at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials will support research for advances in quantum computing.
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3:56
A Decade of Nanoscience Discovery
The Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)—a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory—hosted a day-long celebration on Dec. 5, 2018, in recognition of its 10-year anniversary, featuring talks by Department of Energy, Brookhaven Lab, and CFN leadership, and hands-on nanoscience demonstrations.
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2:27
A Decade of Nanoscience Discoveries: Opening Remarks
The Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) hosted a day-long celebration on Dec. 5, 2018, in recognition of its 10-year anniversary, featuring talks by Department of Energy, Brookhaven Lab, and CFN leadership, and hands-on nanoscience demonstrations.
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2:42
Interface Science and Catalysis Group at Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Group leader Dario Stacchiola describes how his group captures atomic-scale catalytic processes in real time and under reaction conditions.
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1:28
Electron Microscopy Group at Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Group leader Eric Stach discusses the electron microscopy instrumentation and techniques that his group uses to study the structure and chemistry of materials at the atomic scale.
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2:24
Electronic Nanomaterials Group at Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Group leader Kevin Yager explains that the mission of his group is to fabricate and measures the properties of nanoscale architectures with interesting electronic behaviors.
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3:19
Theory and Computation Group at Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Group leader Mark Hybertsen explains that his group works in collaboration with experimental colleagues to identify structures with particular functional capabilities.
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1:26
Soft and Bio Nanomaterials Group at Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Group leader Oleg Gang talks about the methods his group develops to direct the self-assembly of nanoscale systems from organic and inorganic components into functional materials with desired properties.
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3:49
Directed Self-Assembly Opens New Pathways for Nanotechnology
Brookhaven Lab physicists Aaron Stein and Kevin Yager discuss their directed self-assembly technique that enables different molecular patterns—in this case, parallel lines and dots—to coexist within a single nanostructure in specific arrangements. The ability to direct the self-assembly of materials into complex nanostructures could enable advances in microelectronics, sensing, and other applications.
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57:04
Manipulating Nanostructures With Light
Kevin Yager begins the 513th Brookhaven Lecture with a brief introduction to the nanoscale—the tiny world within our own where elements are so small they are measured in billionths of a meter. Yager then discusses the light-based techniques and laser tools he has developed to arrange molecules into ordered patterns and specific shapes to fabricate more perfect, complex nanostructures.
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56:47
Tracking Ion Migrations at the Nanoscale in Rechargeable Batteries
During the 507th Brookhaven Lecture, Dong Su explains how he and his colleagues are using advanced tools at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven Lab to study materials and determine how different atomic-level structures can improve performance for rechargeable batteries.
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5:21
The Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Lab
Scientists from all over the world visit the Center for Functional Nanomaterials to explore strange phenomena hidden on the nanoscale—an exciting and powerful landscape spanning just billionths of a meter. The U.S. Department of Energy opened the CFN, one of its five nanoscale science research centers in the United States, to develop unprecedented energy technologies and solve fundamental scientific puzzles.
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2:01
Kevin Yager on the Nanoscience of Studying Scattered X-rays
Kevin Yager, a scientist at Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials, discusses his research on materials spanning just billionths of a meter. Yager specializes in making new materials through meticulously guided self-assembly and probing nanoscale structures with a technique called x-ray scattering.
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5:28
Summer Sundays | Exploring the Ultra Small
Big things happen in microscopic places at Brookhaven National Lab. Featured Interviews: Nora Detweiler, James Dickerson, Matt Sfeir, and John Halverson.
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12:57
Brookhaven National Laboratory: Energy Research
Joint Workshop on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Opportunities for Academia and High Tech Industry.
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18:48
The CFN: A User-Oriented Research Center
Joint Workshop on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Opportunities for Academia and High Tech Industry.
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14:47
CFN's Facilities & Capabilities
Joint Workshop on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Opportunities for Academia and High Tech Industry.
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11:41
Patents & Commercial Licensing
Joint Workshop on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Opportunities for Academia and High Tech Industry.
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21:41
Research partnerships with CFN
Joint Workshop on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Opportunities for Academia and High Tech Industry.
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25:26
Protecting Intellectual Property
Joint Workshop on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Opportunities for Academia and High Tech Industry.
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22:41
How to Become a CFN User
Joint Workshop on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Opportunities for Academia and High Tech Industry.
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30:29
Ultrafast Dynamics in Graphene & Nanomaterials
Joint Workshop on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Opportunities for Academia and High Tech Industry.
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14:38
Commercializing Graphene: Building a Nanotech Company on L.I.
Joint Workshop on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Opportunities for Academia and High Tech Industry.
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1:00:30
Designing Nanoscale Systems Using DNA-Based Approaches
In the 474th Brookhaven Lecture Oleg Gang discusses how Brookhaven scientists have devised a way of using strands of synthetic DNA attached to the surface of nanoparticles to instruct them to self-assemble into nanoscale structures, clusters, and three-dimensional organizations.
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4:17
Multimodal Optical Nanoprobe
A novel multimodal optical nanoprobe is incorporated into a transmission electron microscope (TEM) sample holder. The nanoprobe allows scientists to perform all the usual experiments done in a TEM in addition to those involving optical excitation and measurement of the sample, electrical measurements on the sample, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), and combinations of these measurements. Of particular utility is the ability to simultaneously measure optical and electrical properties of the sample at the nanoscale.
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2:15
Recovery Act Funds Nano-Research Tools at Brookhaven Lab
Brookhaven National Laboratory's Center for Functional Nanomaterials is receiving more than $5 million in new equipment from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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2:26
DNA Assembly Line for Nano-Construction
Building on the idea of using DNA to link up nanoparticles scientists at Brookhaven National Lab have designed a molecular assembly line for high-precision nano-construction. Nanofabrication is essential for exploiting the unique properties of nanoparticles in applications such as biological sensors and devices for converting sunlight to electricity.
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6:03
Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Staff from Brookhaven's new Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) describe how this advanced facility will focus on the development and understanding of nanoscale materials. The CFN 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 Nation's challenges in energy security.
