 |
 |
Center for Nanoscale Materials |
FacilitiesThe Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) at Argonne National Laboratory is a national user facility that provides capabilities explicitly tailored to the creation and characterization of new functional materials on the nanoscale. Its user program is open to the academic, industrial, government, and international communities. The CNM mission includes supporting basic research and advanced instrumentation development, including a hard X-ray nanoprobe beamline at the Advanced Photon Source.The new facility houses dedicated equipment for synthesis and self-assembly, patterning, characterization, and theory and modeling.
Key Facilities and CapabilitiesMaterials Synthesis: Techniques such as hierarchical assembly using bottom-up polymeric and bio-templating, core-shell colloidal nanoparticle synthesis, peptide/DNA biosynthesis methods, complex oxide molecular beam epitaxy, and PECVD nanocrystalline diamond. Nanofabrication Research: Controlled synthesis and directed assembly of nanomaterials; lithographically assisted patterning of hybrid structures; chemical and biological functionalization of nanoscale materials; electron-beam lithography, focused ion beams, and nanoimprint patterning methods. Proximal Probes: An array of scanning probe tunneling and atomic force microscopy capabilities for advanced surface, interface, and magnetic analysis; near-field scanning optical microscopy. Dedicated Hard X-Ray Beamline at the APS: The nanoprobe beamline provides fluorescence, diffraction, and transmission imaging with a spatial resolution of 30 nm or better over a spectral range of 3-30 keV. Computational Nanoscience: Theory and multiscale computer simulations provide the interpretive and predictive framework for understanding fundamental studies and to aid in the design of new nanoscale functional systems. A state-of-the art Beowulf-class supercomputer accommodating highly parallel compute-intensive applications has a compute capacity of approximately 10 TFlops. Other FacilitiesThe CNM is also working with its partner user facilities to provide access to the broadest suite of characterization methods possible:
|
