Research Communities
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 or process with the objectives of sharing best practices, the Research Communities are more outward facing helping to develop products that benefit the larger scientific and engineering communities.
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Research Community |
Leader(s) |
Reference Materials |
|---|---|---|
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Nanotechnology Convergence |
Jacob Jones (NC State Univ.) |
2020 NNCI Conference Presentation 2021 NNCI Conference Presentation |
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Nanoscience in the Earth and Environmental Sciences |
Trevor Thornton (Arizona State Univ.), Mitsu Murayama (Virginia Tech), and David Mogk (Montana State Univ.) |
2020 NNCI Conference Presentation Analytical Geochemical Instrument Registry |
|
Nano-Enabled Internet-of-Things |
Mark Allen (Univ. of Pennsylvania) |
2020 NNCI Conference Presentation Fall 2021 Symposium (including presentation video recordings) |
 |
Andrew Cleland (Univ. Chicago), Robert Westervelt (Harvard Univ.), Steven Koester (Univ. Minnesota) |
2020 NNCI Conference Presentation |
|
Understanding the Rules of Life |
Vinayak Dravid (Northwestern Univ.) |
2020 NNCI Conference Presentation |
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Microelectronics/Semiconductors |
Philip Wong (Stanford), Trevor Thornton (Arizona State), Shyam Aravamudhan (North Carolina A&T Univ.), and Sanjay Banerjee (Univ. of Texas) |
Activities of these groups may include:
a. NNCI-sponsored symposia/workshops/webinars
b. Road-mapping
c. Identifying future infrastructure needs
These groups will address questions such as (a) What infrastructure capabilities are needed to support the research topic? and (b) What are the challenges of current fabrication infrastructure for the specific research area? In addition, they can provide opportunities for networking among faculty and students working on similar themes. They also can be used to convey information about tools, capabilities, and expertise within the wider NNCI network to researchers who may not typically look outside their own local site.