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North America

University of Washington - Center for Nanotechnology
'The prime goal of the Center for Nanotechnology is the instruction and training of future scientists and educators who will apply the knowledge and skills of this and other disciplines in their chosen field. We are the first university in the nation to

NASA - Center for Nanotechnology
'NASA Ames nanotechnology effort started in early 1996 and has steadily grown to establish a center for nanotechnology. The research work focuses on experimental research and development (R & D) as well as on a strong modeling and simulation effort.'

Cornell Nanobiotechnology Center (NBTC)
"The Nanobiotechnology Center (NBTC), a National Science Foundation, Science and Technology Center is characterized by its highly interdisciplinary nature and features a close collaboration between life scientists, physical scientists, and engineers."

Center for Molecular Nanofabrication and Devices
'The Center for Molecular Nanofabrication and Devices (CMND) at Penn State has been established to advance the fundamental understanding of electronically and mechanically functional molecules coupled to larger-scale structures.'

Center for Nano Science and Technology
University of Notre Dame - 'The center actively explores multidisciplinary fundamental concepts in nanoscience and engineering with emphasis on applications to unique functional capabilities.'

Center for Nanoscale Devices
Purdue University - 'Our mission is to explore the science of nanostructures and new materials, to develop the enabling technology for producing new classes of electronic and biological devices, to educate the scientists and engineers who will carry this

Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
Rice University - devoted to nurturing science and technology at the nanometer scale, as well as the education of future scientists and engineers.

Keck Center for Computational and Structural Biology
To provide a world-class environment for research training at the interface between biological and biomedical sciences and the computational and physical sciences.

Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology
Research in the center is presently focussed on: bioelectronic materials, molecular nanoscale, electronic materials, quantum dot and quantum wire nanoscale material, and nano patterning and nano imaging.

Center for Nanoscale Control of Biomaterials (CNCB)
"The Center for Nanoscale Control of Biomaterials is an Advanced Technology Center based at the University of Delaware and created to foster the next wave of commercial growth in biotechnology." ... "The goal of the Center is to advance the economic oppo

Center for Biologic Nanotechnology
"The Center will create a library of multi-use nanodevices that can be used as components to build larger and more complex nanotechnologies"


Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers (NSEC)

Center for Electronic Transport in Molecular Nanostructures
Columbia University - The center, in collaboration with industrial partners and national laboratories, seeks to develop the understanding of charge transport in molecular structures with potential applications in electronics, photonics, biology, neuroscie

Center for the Science of Nanoscale Systems and their Device Applications
Harvard University - In collaboration with U.S. and foreign academic partners, the center supports an interdisciplinary program exploring the properties of nanostructures for novel electronic and magnetic devices, including potential applications in quant

Center for Integrated Nanopatterning and Detection Technologies
Northwestern University - The center will develop nanopatterning capabilities in the 1- to 100-nanometer scale for soft materials, with potential applications in the design of chemical and biological sensors.

Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology
Rice University - The center's research and outreach program focuses on applications of nanoscience to bioengineering and environmental engineering, with particular emphasis on the theme of integrating biology with nanochemistry.

Center for Directed Assembly of Nanostructures
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - The center is a partnership between Rensselaer, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Los Alamos National Laboratory, with additional support from New York State. Its focus is the assembly of nanoscale building


Europe

Nano Electronics Research Centre
"Nanoelectronics is concerned with understanding and exploiting the properties of devices which have dimensions at the nanometre scale. The Nanoelectronics Research Centre provides a focus for diverse research activities within the University of Glasgow

Center for Atomic-scale Materials Physics (CAMP)
"The Center for Atomic-scale Materials Physics (CAMP) was founded by the Danish National Research Foundation in September 1993." ... "The general theme for the research at CAMP is the study of metallic nano-structures and their properties by a closely cou

Center for NanoScience (CeNS)
"The Center for NanoScience (CeNS), established in 1998, aims to stimulate and support interdisciplinary research in all areas of nanoscience, combining physics, chemistry, biochemistry and life sciences. CeNS is a working group based at the Ludwig-Maximi

Zentrum für Ultrastrukturforschung
Austrian Center associated with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Molekulare Nanotechnologie and Erwin Schrödinger Institut für NanoBiotechnologie.

Center for Functional Nanostructures
The CFN comprises four research areas: (A) Nano-Photonics, (B) Nano-Electronics, (C) Molecular Nanostructures und (D) Nanostructured Materials. The projects within these four areas are cooperations between the faculties of Physics, Chemistry, and Electric

CeNTech, Center for NanoTechnology
University of Muenster - The first German interdisciplinary Center for Nanoanalytics and NanoBioTechnology, CeNTech, is devoted to transferring nanoscale solutions into commercial applications.
  
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