nanoHUB.org: online simulations and more

The NCN's vision is to connect theory, experiment, and computation in a way that makes a difference to the future of nanotechnology - both in research and education. It brings together theorists and computational scientists in the physical disciplines, computer scientists, and experimentalists who address focused research projects that begin at the atomic level and proceed to the system scale. The NCN supports research on nanoelectronics, NEMS, and their application to nano-bio systems. To support these efforts, a web-based infrastructure provides high-performance computing, visualization, web-based simulation and collaboration, and leadership meetings and workshops. Finally, the NCN is creating educational resources that use simulation to make abstract concepts come alive to students at all levels.

The mission of the MSD Center is to explore the most promising paths for microelectronics in the next two to three decades by pursuing two overlapping approaches:

• Scaling of CMOS to its ultimate limit, and
• Interdisciplinary exploration of new-frontier devices

The Center has successfully launched entirely new materials combinations for high performance CMOS applications, while pushing new frontier devices, such as carbon nanotubes, to new heights of performance through the combination of novel chemical synthesis of nanostructures with advanced front-end processes borrowed from silicon technology.

Internationally known publisher Taylor & Francis Group LLC has emerged as the leading Nanotechnology publisher, boasting over 80 nanotechnology books, including the Handbook of Nanoscience, Engineering, and Technology, 2nd Edition; the upcoming textbook Introduction to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology; eight nanotechnology-based journals; online access to the premier nanotechnology library NANOnetBASE; and the all-encompassing Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience. The firm’s new community-based nanotechnology web portal NanoScienceWorks.org includes spotlights on researchers, institutions, articles, and multimedia outlets for all things nano.

NCLT is the first national center for learning and teaching of nanoscale science and engineering education in the US. Its mission is to develop the next generation of leaders in NSE teaching and learning, with an emphasis on NSEE capacity building, providing a strong impact on national STEM education. The guiding theme of NCLT is learning and teaching through inquiry and design of nanoscale materials and applications.

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The National Center for Design of Biomimetic Nanoconductors is funded by the National Institutes of Health through the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research, and is based at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Partner institutions include Yale University, University of Southern California, University of Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, Sandia National Laboratories, Oxford University, Wabash College, University of California, Davis, Purdue University, and the University of New Mexico.

TeacherTECH shares science technology tools with High School and Middle School teachers. Teacher Tech offers hands-on workshops, educational science seminars and user groups in partnership with the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

MERLOT stands for the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching. MERLOT's strategic goal is to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning by increasing the quantity and quality of peer reviewed online learning materials that can be easily incorporated into faculty designed courses. MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy. The partnership between NCN and MERLOT has resulted in a new nanotechnology section on MERLOT that will benefit a large number of educational users. Also, NCN and MERLOT are working actively on direct posting of nanoHUB content metadata on MERLOT, automatic posting of MERLOT peer-reviews and use case scenario on the nanoHUB, and on expanding and enhancing the newly added nanotechnology area on MERLOT. This new nanotechnology area on MERLOT was created as a result of NCN-MERLOT collaboration.

The CCN will increase the visibility of lndiana as a center of activity in computational nanoscience as well as a leader in information and nanotechnology. It also has a mission to involve Indiana industry in the research at an early stage so that they can exploit the benefits of nanotechnology. The center's theme or common area of research is Quantum dots and dot ensembles. In the spectrum of nanotechnologies, these nanosystems have the potential for early development and manufacture of new optical and electronic devices.