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Center for Nanoscale Materials |
ResearchThe goal of Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) is to create, characterize, and understand the behavior of new functional materials on the nanoscale, thereby transcending the performance constraints limiting present-day materials and processes. The centralized facilities and scientific and technical staff of the CNM will enable users to carry out both research and development. Studies to understand the chemical and physical responses of nanoscale materials will allow their incorporation into new devices and applications, such as ultrastrong permanent magnet nanocomposites, magnetic electronics and sensors, photo-induced energy conversion and storage systems, and molecular conductors – with specific functionality for diverse energy-related applications. The CNM is pursuing world-leading research programs in a variety of themes. These programs will exploit the unique electronic, magnetic, structural, chemical, and optical properties of individual nanostructures and their ordered arrays. The scientific emphasis will include examining the behavior and fundamental properties of nanostructured magnetic, complex oxides, and carbon materials, bio-inorganic hybrids, nanophotonic phenomena, and assisted self-assembly to provide insights into future applications. Theory and simulation will be integrated throughout the CNM’s activities. The CNM will also work with its partner user facilities at Argonne, the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source , the Electron Microscopy Center, and the Advanced Photon Source, to provide access to world-leading characterization methods. As a principle component of its mission, the center will capitalize on the brilliance of the Advanced Photon Source to construct a hard X-ray nanoprobe beamline. The capabilities and focus of the CNM will complement those of the other nanoscale science research centers planned by the U.S. Department of Energy. Scientific Areas
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