About CNM

The Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) at Argonne National Laboratory is a premier user-based center, providing tools and infrastructure for nanoscience and nanotechnology research. Its centralized facilities, controlled environments, technical support, and scientific staff enable researchers to work at the leading edge of science and technology to develop capabilities and knowledge that complement those of industry.

The CNM's mission includes supporting basic research and the development of advanced instrumentation that will help generate new scientific insights and create new materials with novel properties.

The CNM is one of five national centers dedicated to nanoscience and nanotechnology. It is a joint partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the State of Illinois, as part of DOE's Nanoscale Science Research Center program.

Research

Research at the CNM centers around six scientific areas:

• Electronic & Magnetic Materials & Devices
• NanoBio Interfaces
• Nanofabrication & Devices
• Nanophotonics
• Theory & Modeling
• X-Ray Microscopy

Facilities & Capabilities

The CNM, a state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary nanoscience center, together with Argonne's Advanced Photon Source (APS), are enabling ground-breaking research in the midwestern United States. The APS plays a key role in research; its hard X-rays, harnessed in a nanoprobe beamline, provide unprecedented capabilities to characterize extremely small structures.

Other CNM facilities and capabilities include:

• Materials Synthesis
• Nanofabrication Research
• Proximal Probes
• Computational Nanoscience
• Theme-specific capabilities

Users

The CNM welcomes outside users, both as independent investigators and as collaborators, from a wide range of scientific fields, on the basis of peer-reviewed proposals. Two to three calls for proposals are issued each year, each centered in one or more of the CNM's scientific areas.

The accessibility of the CNM ensures a cross-disciplinary approach to nano-related research that enables ideas and activities to cross-pollinate, mature, and evolve over time into the pathways of scientific investigation and discovery that will help shape the future of our society.

Location

Center for Nanoscale Materials
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue, Building 440
Argonne, IL 60439
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