Annual conferences provide an opportunity for NNCI site directors, staff, external advisory board, NSF program officers, and invited guests to share updates and exchange ideas. These pages provide the agendas and presentations of the annual…
Nanotechnology deals with the very smallest components of our world – atoms and molecules. Trying to understand just how small the nanoscale is can be very difficult for people. A nanometer is a unit of measurement for length just as you ha…
Research Communities are groups of faculty, students, and staff from NNCI sites organized around a particular research topic, national priority, or grand challenge. In contrast to NNCI working groups which are focused on a particular tool o…
"Science Outside the Lab" is a workshop in Washington, D.C. that is an introduction to how the federal government impacts and is impacted by science and technology. The program explores the relationships among science, innovation, policy, a…
You wake up in the morning and put on your nature influenced clothes. You do not have to worry that it is raining outside today because water and dirt just roll off like drops on a lotus leaf. You do not have to worry that the electricity i…
The NNCI Coordinating Office (at Georgia Tech) is led by Dr. David Gottfried who serves as Director. The Director oversees the Coordinating Office day-to-day operations, assisted by a Program Manager (Ms. Amy Duke). Four Associate Directors…
2025 NNCI Etch Symposium - The Demands on Plasma Etching: Challenges and SolutionsJune 30 – July 2, 2025 at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyJointly hosted by Harvard CNS and MIT.nano This event will feature scientific and technical pre…
Search the database of curricular materials by subject area and/or education level. (Listing in table format is provided below.) Explore a variety of hands-on professional development opportunities for teachers offered by NNCI supported fac…
Modeling and simulation play a key role in enhancing nanoscale fabrication and characterization as they can guide experimental research, drastically reduce the required number of trial and error iterations, and enable more in depth interpre…
One of the greatest strengths of the NNCI network is the combined staff expertise of the individual sites. To leverage this expertise at the network level, working groups composed of staff members from the NNCI sites have been created. The
"Science Outside the Lab" is a workshop in Washington, D.C. that is an introduction to how the federal government impacts and is impacted by science and technology. The program explores the relationships among science, innovation, policy, a…
Individual NNCI sites report annually to the National Science Foundation, based on the October-September calendar. In addition, the Coordinating Office prepares an NNCI annual report summarizing the previous year's activities and accomplish…