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Next-Gen Semiconductor Manufacturing Tech Wins DOE National Pitch Competition
Monday, November 1, 2021
Toward Scaling Up Nanocages to Trap Noble Gases
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
Putting Functional Proteins in Their Place
Friday, June 25, 2021
DNA Origami Enables Fabricating Superconducting Nanowires
Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Making 3-D Nanosuperconductors with DNA
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Protecting DNA Origami for Anti-Cancer Drug Delivery
Monday, March 9, 2020
Nano-objects of Desire: Assembling Ordered Nanostructures in 3-D
Monday, January 13, 2020
Top-10 Science and Technology Achievements of 2019
Monday, January 6, 2020
Enhancing Materials for Hi-Res Patterning to Advance Microelectronics
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Optimizing the Growth of Coatings on Nanowire Catalysts
Monday, July 8, 2019
"Invisible Glass" Wins 2018 Create the Future Design Contest Grand Prize
Monday, October 15, 2018
Researchers Mimic Comet Moth's Silk Fibers to Make "Air-conditioned" Fabric
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Making Glass Invisible: A Nanoscience-Based Disappearing Act
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Scientists Use Machine Learning to Translate 'Hidden' Information that Reveals Chemistry in Action
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Scientists Set Record Resolution for Drawing at the One-Nanometer Length Scale
Friday, April 28, 2017
Water-Repellent Nanotextures Found to Have Excellent Anti-Fogging Abilities
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Scientists Boost Catalytic Activity for Key Chemical Reaction in Fuel Cells
Friday, December 16, 2016
Brookhaven Lab Wins Three 2016 R&D 100 Awards
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Water Vapor Sets Some Oxides Aflutter
Monday, October 3, 2016
Smarter Self-assembly Opens New Pathways for Nanotechnology
Monday, August 8, 2016
Setting the Gold Standard
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Discovery of Gold Nanocluster "Double" Hints at Other Shape-Changing Particles
Friday, June 17, 2016
DNA Shaping Up to be Ideal Framework for Rationally Designed Nanostructures
Monday, June 13, 2016
Visualizing the Lithiation of a Nanosized Iron-Oxide Material in Real Time
Monday, May 9, 2016
Brookhaven's Oleg Gang Named a Battelle 'Inventor of the Year'
Monday, April 25, 2016
Quantum Dots Enhance Light-to-Current Conversion in Layered Metal Dichalcogenide Semiconductors
Friday, April 8, 2016
Graphene Leans on Glass to Advance Electronics
Friday, February 12, 2016
Scientists Guide Gold Nanoparticles to Form "Diamond" Superlattices
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Unique Two-Level Cathode Structure Improves Battery Performance
Monday, January 11, 2016
New Technique to Synthesize Nanostructured Nanowires
Monday, July 20, 2015
Sweeping Lasers Snap Together Nanoscale Geometric Grids
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Staying Cool: Saharan Silver Ants
Thursday, June 18, 2015
DNA Double Helix Does Double Duty in Assembling Arrays of Nanoparticles
Monday, May 25, 2015
Engineering Phase Changes in Nanoparticle Arrays
Monday, May 25, 2015
Scientists Use Nanoscale Building Blocks and DNA 'Glue' to Shape 3D Superlattices
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Nanoscale Mirrored Cavities Amplify, Connect Quantum Memories
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Self-Assembled Nanotextures Create Antireflective Surface on Silicon Solar Cells
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Solar Cell Polymers with Multiplied Electrical Output
Monday, January 12, 2015
Microscopy Reveals How Atom-High Steps Impede Oxidation of Metal Surfaces
Monday, December 29, 2014
Promising Ferroelectric Materials Suffer From Unexpected Electric Polarizations
Monday, August 18, 2014
DNA-Linked Nanoparticles Form Switchable 'Thin Films' on a Liquid Surface
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Scientists Find Solution to Two Long-Standing Mysteries of Cuprate High-Temperature Superconductivity
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Brookhaven's Charles T. Black Named a Battelle 'Inventor of the Year'
Monday, May 5, 2014
Harnessing Magnetic Vortices for Making Nanoscale Antennas
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Top-10 Brookhaven Lab Breakthroughs of 2013
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Using Data Science Tools to Discover New Nanostructured Materials
Monday, October 28, 2013
Mixing Nanoparticles to Make Multifunctional Materials
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Nanocrystal Catalyst Transforms Impure Hydrogen into Electricity
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Shedding New Light on the 'Electron Highways' of Organic Solar Cells
Friday, August 30, 2013
Researchers Help Show New Way to Study and Improve Catalytic Reactions
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Tiny Nanocubes Help Scientists Tell Left from Right
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Atomic-Scale Investigations Solve Key Puzzle of LED Efficiency
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
DNA-Guided Assembly Yields Novel Ribbon-Like Nanostructures
Thursday, May 16, 2013
SBU-Led Research Reveals Nanotechnology Simplifies Hydrogen Production for Clean Energy
Monday, November 26, 2012
Scientists Capture Lithium-Ion Batteries in Nanoscale Action
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
X-rays Reveal Spin Waves in Two-Dimensional High-Temperature Superconductors
Monday, September 3, 2012
Electronics Play By a New Set of Rules at the Molecular Scale
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Magnetic Vortex Reveals Key to Spintronic Speed Limit
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Unraveling Intricate Interactions, One Molecule at a Time
Sunday, August 12, 2012
New Technique Uses Electrons to Map Nanoparticle Atomic Structures
Friday, May 4, 2012
Brookhaven Lab’s Adzic Named ‘Inventor of the Year’
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Colossal Conducting Variation at the Nanoscale
Monday, December 12, 2011
Brookhaven Lab and Nanofactory Instruments, AB, Receive the 2011 Microscopy Today Innovation Award
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Columbia Engineers Control Light Propagation in Photonic Chips
Monday, July 11, 2011
Brookhaven Lab Wins Two R&D 100 Awards for Imaging Devices Used in Scientific Research
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Self-Cleaning Anodes: Researchers Develop Nanoparticle Technology That Could Facilitate Cost-Effective Coal-Powered Fuel Cells
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Pairing Quantum Dots with Fullerenes for Nanoscale Photovoltaics
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Expanding the Degrees of Surface Freezing
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Nanoscale Assembly Using DNA ‘Glue’
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Brookhaven Lab Wins Inaugural Gordon Battelle Prizes for Scientific Discovery and Technology Impact
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Battelle CEO Announces Winners of Inaugural Gordon Battelle Prize
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Brookhaven Lab’s Top 5 Scientific Discoveries of 2010
Friday, January 14, 2011
Structural Distortions Emerge from Nothing at the Nanoscale
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Scientists Put a New Spin on Nanotechnology
Monday, November 29, 2010
New Highly Stable Fuel-Cell Catalyst Gets Strength from its Nano Core
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Transparent Conductive Material Could Lead to Power-Generating Windows
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Multi-Component Nano-Structures with Tunable Optical Properties
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Brookhaven Lab Physicist Simon Billinge Receives the J.D. Hanawalt Award from the International Centre for Diffraction Data
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Nanoparticles Increase Intensity of Quantum Dots' Glow
Monday, July 26, 2010
Scientists Create Nano-Patterned Superconducting Thin Films
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Scientists Glimpse Nanobubbles on Super Non-Stick Surfaces
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Switchable Nanostructures Made with DNA
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Stanislaus S. Wong Receives Buck-Whitney Award from the American Chemical Society Eastern New York Section
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Pinning Down Superconductivity to a Single Layer
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Simultaneous Nanoscale Imaging of Surface and Bulk Atoms
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Syracuse University announces new agreement with Brookhaven National Laboratory
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Light Source Illuminates Nanomaterials, Catalysts, Alzheimer's and More
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Talk at Brookhaven Lab on ‘Nanotechnology: Its Promise and Challenges,’ May 14
Monday, April 27, 2009
Discovery of an Unexpected Boost for Solar Water-Splitting Cells
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
DNA-Based Assembly Line for Precision Nano-Cluster Construction
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Scientists Patent Corrosion-Resistant Nano-Coating for Metals
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Researchers Discover a Potential On-Off Switch for Nanoelectronics
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Controlling the Size of Nanoclusters
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Controlling the Size of Nanoclusters: First Step in Making New Catalysts
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Nanotechnology Research Roundtable in Boston Friday, Feb. 15
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
DNA Technique Yields 3-D Crystalline Organization of Nanoparticles
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Experiments Reveal Unexpected Activity of Fuel Cell Catalysts
Thursday, December 13, 2007
New DNA-Based Technique For Assembly of Nano- and Micro-sized Particles
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Tiny Tubes and Rods Show Promise as Catalysts, Sunscreen
Monday, September 10, 2007
Using Life's Building Blocks to Control Nanoparticle Assembly
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Pairing Nanoparticles with Proteins
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Researchers Use Smallest Pipette to Reveal Freezing "Dance" of Nanoscale Drops
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Gold, Copper Nanoparticles Take Center Stage in the Search for Hydrogen Production Catalysts
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Giving Platinum Catalysts a Golden Boost for Fuel Cells
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Students and Their Robots Explore the Tiny But Vast World Of Nanotechnology
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Brookhaven Lab Scientists Discover Gold Clusters Stabilize Platinum Electrocatalysts For Use in Fuel Cells
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Nanoparticle Assembly Enters the Fast Lane
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Modeling the Movement of Electrons at the Molecular Scale
Monday, September 11, 2006
New Methods for Screening Nanoparticles
Monday, August 21, 2006
Liquid Alloy Shows Solid-like Crystal Structure at Surface
Thursday, July 6, 2006
Dual Properties of Carbon Nanotubes Revealed
Friday, April 28, 2006
Cerium Oxide Nanotubes Get Noticed
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Modeling the Chemical Reactions of Nanoparticles
Monday, March 27, 2006
Brookhaven Scientists Working Toward Practical Hydrogen-Storage Materials
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Shrinking Magnetic Storage Media Down to the Nanoscale
Monday, March 13, 2006
Brookhaven Scientists Study Liquid "Nanodrops"
Friday, February 17, 2006
Structure of a Molecular-Scale Circuit Component
Thursday, February 9, 2006
Filling "Nanocontainers" with Liquid
Thursday, January 5, 2006
Scientists Study and Learn to Prevent Nanoparticle "Merging"
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
Brookhaven Scientists Create a New Nanostructure
Monday, June 27, 2005
A Nanomaterial in 3-D
Monday, June 6, 2005
Nanoparticles' Magnetic Behavior Defies Accepted Physics Laws
Thursday, May 19, 2005
Ceria Nanoparticles Catalyze Reactions for Cleaner-Fuel Future
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Moving Electrons at the Molecular and Nanometer Scales
Monday, March 14, 2005
A Nanowire with a Surprise
Monday, October 18, 2004
Carbon Nanotubes with Big Possibilities
Thursday, March 25, 2004
Features
Making Big Leaps in Understanding Nanoscale Gaps
Friday, August 18, 2023
Imaging the Chemical Fingerprints of Molecules
Monday, October 25, 2021
Celebrating National Nanotechnology Day, October 9
Monday, September 27, 2021
Probing the Powers of Zeolites
Monday, August 16, 2021
Shih-Ting (Christine) Wang: Designing Materials for Biomedicine
Monday, August 2, 2021
New Dual-Beam Microscope Installed at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
Synthesis Method Expands Material Possibilities
Friday, April 23, 2021
Nikhil Tiwale: Practicing the Art of Nanofabrication
Monday, December 21, 2020
Defects in Magnetic Nanoparticles May Improve Cancer Treatment
Thursday, February 20, 2020
CFN Staff Spotlight: Xiaohui Qu Bridges the Data Science-Materials Science Gap
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
CFN User Spotlight: Nik Singh Seeks Better Battery Materials
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
New Lab overview video
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Samantha Nowak: From CFN User to CFN Postdoc
Friday, April 5, 2019
Brookhaven's CFN Celebrates Decade of Discovery
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Creating Nanoscale Patterns at Record Resolution: An Instructional Video
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Q&A with CFN User Xiaowei Teng
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Accelerating the Self-Assembly of Nanoscale Patterns for Next-Generation Materials
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Scientists Engineer Nanoscale Pillars to Act Like Memory Foam
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Designing New Metal Alloys Using Engineered Nanostructures
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Q&A with CFN User Vinod Menon
Friday, August 25, 2017
Q&A with CFN Staff Member Gwen Wright
Friday, August 18, 2017
Welcoming a Bright Future: 2017 NSLS-II and CFN Joint Users' Meeting
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Unexpected Damage Found Rippling Through Promising Exotic Nanomaterials
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Next-Generation Software Supports Explorations Beyond the Nanoworld into the Intramolecular Picoworld
Thursday, March 30, 2017
AGEP-T FRAME Scientist Raul Acevedo Studies How Fuel Cells Behave in Space
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Q&A with CFN Scientist Anibal Boscoboinik
Thursday, December 29, 2016
Q&A with CFN User Don DiMarzio
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
New Technique Reveals Powerful, "Patchy" Approach to Nanoparticle Synthesis
Friday, October 28, 2016
Collaboration Strikes Gold Pioneering a New Method for Catalyst Production
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
When Nanofabrication Leads to Nanoscience: Optics Developed at the CFN Bring NSLS-II's Ultra-Bright x-rays into Focus for Scientific Imaging
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
CFN User Spotlight: Frances Ross Studies Nanowire Growth
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
10 Questions with Lihua Zhang
Thursday, April 21, 2016
513th Brookhaven Lecture on Wednesday, 3/30: 'Manipulating Nanostructures With Light'
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Shining A Light On Water-Splitting Reactions
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Brookhaven Lab Researchers and Technologies Honored with 'Innovate Long Island' Awards
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
507th Brookhaven Lecture on Tuesday, 9/29: 'Tracking Ion Migrations at the Nanoscale in Rechargeable Batteries'
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Blazing Trails at Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (Video)
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Adapting Nanoscience Imaging Tools to Study Ants' Heat-Deflecting Adaptations
Thursday, June 18, 2015
Meet Joe Garlow
Monday, February 23, 2015
Toyota to Use Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials to Advance Vehicle Battery Tech
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Nanotechnology PubSci Explores the Huge Impacts of the Ultra Small
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Complex Calculations at CFN: Meet Mark Hybertsen
Monday, June 2, 2014
Scientists Pinpoint the Creeping Nanocrystals Behind Lithium-Ion Battery Degradation
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Label-free, Sequence-specific, Inexpensive Fluorescent DNA Sensors
Monday, April 28, 2014
Kevin Yager on the Nanoscience of Studying Scattered X-rays
Monday, April 14, 2014
Simon Billinge Named 2014 NSSA Fellow
Friday, March 7, 2014
Small Size Enhances Charge Transfer in Quantum Dots
Monday, December 16, 2013
iCFN User Spotlight—Latha Venkataraman: Advancing the World's Smallest Devices
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
10 Questions with Kevin Yager
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Small Particles, Big Findings
Friday, November 15, 2013
Stunning Science: The Unexpected Eye Candy of Experimentation
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Open Up, Break it Down, Get it Out There!
Thursday, May 30, 2013
10 Questions with Eli Sutter
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Meet Kim Kisslinger, Master of the Nanospecimen
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Girl Scouts Learn How Scientists See the Invisible
Thursday, October 18, 2012
BNL’s Researchers Help Connect Nuclear Science and Nanoscience for Safer Reactors
Friday, August 31, 2012
Physicist James Dickerson Joins CFN
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Taking Hybrids for a Spin to Generate Electricity from Sunlight
Thursday, June 14, 2012
2012 NSLS & CFN Joint Users’ Meeting Starts Today, 5/21
Monday, May 21, 2012
New Supercomputers at Brookhaven will Advance Nanomaterial Design
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Catalysis Chemist Accelerates Alternative Energy Research
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Self-Assembly by Instruction: Designing Nanoscale Systems Using DNA-Based Approaches
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Brookhaven Researchers Demonstrate Source of Blinking in Quantum Dots
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Nanoconfinement of Organic Solar Cell Material Enhances Conductivity
Monday, October 24, 2011
Scientists Detect Unusual ‘Quasiparticles’ in Tri-Layer Graphene
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Nanoimprinting Controls Orientation of Organic Solar Polymers
Monday, September 12, 2011
Injecting Electrons into a Single Sheet of Carbon Atoms through Chemical Substitution
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
NSLS-CFN Users’ Meeting Draws Record Number of Attendees
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
NSLS Nanoscience Research May Lead to Better Auto Tires
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
DOE Blog Features BNL Physicist Antonio Checco
Monday, February 7, 2011
The Village Beacon Record Honors BNL Scientists
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Watching the Game Plays of Graphene Conductance
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Popular Paper: CFN Graphene Research Most Cited in Field
Monday, May 10, 2010
Shining Light on Graphene-Metal Interactions
Friday, April 2, 2010
454th Brookhaven Lecture Featuring Charles Black
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Adelphi Professor and Students Get Down to Nano
Monday, June 29, 2009
Brookhaven Lab Showcased at Recent Tech Conferences
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Chemistry Department's Doctoral Student Melissa Patterson Wins Stony Brook University Award
Monday, April 27, 2009
