Nanotechnology
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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

Nanoparticle Blueprints Reveal Path to Smarter Medicines
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

DNA Helps Electronics to Leave Flatland
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Ant-Man and Superman Techniques Expose Tiny Hidden Impurities in Crystals
Thursday, May 9, 2024

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
Videos
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This is Brookhaven Lab
April 19, 2022
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A Decade of Nanoscience Discovery
December 5, 2018
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A Decade of Nanoscience Discoveries: Opening Remarks
December 5, 2018
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Interface Science and Catalysis Group at Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials
December 5, 2016
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Electron Microscopy Group at Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials
December 5, 2016
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Electronic Nanomaterials Group at Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials
December 5, 2016
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Theory and Computation Group at Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials
December 5, 2016
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Soft and Bio Nanomaterials Group at Brookhaven's Center for Functional Nanomaterials
December 5, 2016
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Directed Self-Assembly Opens New Pathways for Nanotechnology
September 6, 2016
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Manipulating Nanostructures With Light
March 30, 2016
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Tracking Ion Migrations at the Nanoscale in Rechargeable Batteries
September 29, 2015
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The Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Lab
July 6, 2015
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Kevin Yager on the Nanoscience of Studying Scattered X-rays
March 31, 2014
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Summer Sundays | Exploring the Ultra Small
August 9, 2013
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Brookhaven National Laboratory: Energy Research
January 7, 2013
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The CFN: A User-Oriented Research Center
January 7, 2013
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CFN's Facilities & Capabilities
January 7, 2013
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Patents & Commercial Licensing
January 7, 2013
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Research partnerships with CFN
January 7, 2013
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Protecting Intellectual Property
January 7, 2013
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22:41

How to Become a CFN User
January 7, 2013
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Ultrafast Dynamics in Graphene & Nanomaterials
January 7, 2013
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Commercializing Graphene: Building a Nanotech Company on L.I.
January 7, 2013
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Designing Nanoscale Systems Using DNA-Based Approaches
January 18, 2012
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Multimodal Optical Nanoprobe
March 21, 2011
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DNA Assembly Line for Nano-Construction
March 25, 2009