COLLABORATORY
Collaboratory is the effective integration of
key laboratories to address
critical issues in nanotechnology and its applications:
- Photonics, Biosensors, MEMS, Information Technology
- Highlight UI uniqueness in NS&T: atoms to systems via effective
tool and laboratory development
- Provide focus for campus-wide scattered research efforts in
NS&T: initiate seed projects, seminar series, central website
- Initiate interdisciplinary graduate program in nanoscience and
technology
- Serve as a bridge between graduate research and undergraduate
laboratories
- Springboard for subsequent state support for infrastructure
and national support for research across COE and campus
Beckman
Institute for Advanced Science & Technology
-Theme: Molecular and Electronic
Nanostructures
The Beckman Institute is a
multidisciplinary research institute devoted to basic research in
the physical science, computation, engineering, biology, behavior,
and cognition. Researchers
in the Molecular and Electronic Nanostructures and others have access to a wide array
of powerful research tools.
Roy
J. Carver Biotechnology Center
-Theme: Nanobiotechnology- Thrusts include Investigation of biological
diagnostic technologies at cellular and molecular level.
The
major research facilities at the Biotechnology Center are the W.M.
Keck Center for Comparative and Functional Genomics, Flow Cytometry
Facility, Immunological Resources Center, Protein Sciences Facility,
and Transgenic Animal Facility.
National
Center
for Design of Biomimetic Nanoconductors-
NIH-funded Center
-Theme: Design of Biomimetic Nanoconductors-
Thrusts include
understanding how biomimetic nanoscale design can be utilized in
devices to achieve the functions that membrane transport
accomplished in biological systems: a) Electrical and
electrochemical signaling, b) generation of osmotic pressures and
flows, c) generation of electrical power, and d) energy
transduction.
Coordinated
Science Laboratory (CSL)
-Theme: Nanoscale Information Technology- Thrusts include
underlying telecommunications and network infrastructure (devices/circuits,
algorithms, networks & systems) that powers IT applications
from e-commerce to bio-informatics.
Frederick
Seitz Materials Research Laboratory (FS-MRL)
-Theme: Nanoscale Systems: surfaces, interfaces, and structures-
Thrusts include surface, interface and thin-film science, nanoscale
synthesis and mesoscale engineering, complex materials systems,
driven materials, and solid/liquid interface science.
Institute
for Genomic Biology (IGB)
-Theme: Bionanotechnology- Thrusts
include: Systems Biology, Cellular and Metabolic Engineering and
Genome Technology.
Micro
and Nanotechnology Laboratory (MNTL)
-Theme: Nanoscale Materials and Structures-
Thrusts include
synthesis and processing of materials, applications to the realization
of micro- and nano-electronic devices, optoelectronic devices, biomolecular
electronics, and micro/nano-electromechanical systems.
Nanoscale
Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing Systems (Nano-CEMMS) -NSF-funded
Center
-Theme: Nanoscale
Manufacturing Systems-
Thrusts include: Micro-Nano Fluidic Network
Toolkit, Process Sensing and Control, Manufacturing Systems, and
Applications.
National
Center for Supercomputing Applications (NSCA)
-Theme: Computational Nanotechnology-Thrusts
include: Modeling
and simulation spanning length and time scales integrating nanoscale
elements of biology, chemistry, physics, and material science, and
experiment validation.
School
of Chemical Sciences
-Theme: Nanoscale Chemical Analysis and Devices-
Thrusts
include: Active control of interfacial chemistry and morphology, as
an entrée to developing nanoscale chemical devices for sensing,
separations, and signal processing.
Siteman
Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence-UIUC sub-location-
NCI-funded Center
-Theme: Targeting Cancer using Nanotechnology-
The
Siteman Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (SCCNE) based at
the Washington University-Saint Louis is a partnership between
Washington University and the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. Thrusts include: The University of Illinois is
leading Core 6 of the project- Nanomaterials and Nanofabrication for
Targeting Cancer. This
core addresses fundamental issues pertaining to nanomaterials and
nanofabrication toward the development of nanodevices and nanotubes
for targeting cancer.
The core also involves nanofabrication training component.
Center for
Nanoscale Science and Technology-Student Initiative
-Theme: Student-centered nanotechnology research, education,
outreach, and careers
The University of
Illinois Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology Student
Initiative, a CNST-affiliated U of I Registered Student Organization
for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and senior
undergraduate students in the nanoscience and nanotechnology fields,
invites your membership, participation, and ideas.
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