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The Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at Brookhaven Lab explores nanoscale materials and processes through world-class facilities and expertise.
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Summer Sundays: Exploring the Ultra Small on July 22 https://t.co/btfMHfggbb via @BrookhavenLab
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Experience Brookhaven Lab’s Summer Sundays. See exciting science shows, tour world-class science facilities, and enjoy hands-on educational activities—all for free! Visitors to the Laboratory 16 and...
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Engineering Professor Karen Chen-Wiegart Receives NSF CAREER Award for Her Research at SBU and BNL https://t.co/Ud4w4aS8Ca via @BrookhavenLab
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Karen Chen-Wiegart, assistant professor at Stony Brook University and researcher at the National Synchrotron Light Source II, has been awarded the 2018 National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early...
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High-School Students Studying Carbon-Based Nanomaterials for Cancer Drug Delivery Visit Brookhaven Lab's Nanocenter https://t.co/LkyENQnjIZ via @BrookhavenLab
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Participants in Stony Brook University’s (SBU) High School Women in Science and Engineering program brought the graphene oxide microspheres they synthesized at SBU to the Center for Functional...
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Tripling the Energy Storage of Lithium-Ion Batteries https://t.co/86ik7PQTvu via @BrookhavenLab
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A First: Trapping Noble Gases in 2D Porous Structures at Room Temp
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CFN User Spotlight: Laura Fabris Develops Nanoparticle-Based Tags to Detect Cancer and Viruses at the Single-Cell Level https://t.co/wv1iPEK0Ou via @BrookhavenLab
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Physical chemist Laura Fabris—an associate professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Rutgers University and principal investigator of the Fabris NanoBio Group—uses the transm...
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Understanding the Generation of Light-Induced Electrical Current in Atomically Thin Nanomaterials https://t.co/vrIQXATtka via @BrookhavenLab
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Scientists added an imaging capability to Brookhaven Lab’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials that could provide the optoelectronic information needed to improve the performance of devices for power...
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New Details of Molecular Machinery that Builds Plant Cell Wall Components https://t.co/hQUV9J6yxm via @BrookhavenLab
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Study reveals how a membrane protein within plant cells serves as a scaffold to organize three key enzymes involved in building the cell’s exterior support.
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Brookhaven Lab's Matthew Sfeir Named a Battelle "Inventor of the Year" https://t.co/rp53JVgZQq via @BrookhavenLab
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Award recognizes his research at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials to develop enabling technologies for next-generation electronic devices, particularly in the areas of thin-film optics and...
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Researchers Engineer New Pathways for Self-Assembled Nanostructures https://t.co/tezh3GR52f via @BrookhavenLab
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Scientists used a new method called “Pathway Engineering” to direct the self-assembly process of molecules into novel nanostructures.
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Atomic Flaws Create Surprising, High-Efficiency UV LED Materials https://t.co/apf0mFeSkj via @BrookhavenLab
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A team of scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University has discovered that subtle imperfections can dramatically increase the efficiency and ultraviolet (UV) light output...
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Surprising Discovery Could Lead to Better Batteries https://t.co/XtHydo2Aj8 via @BrookhavenLab
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Scientists have observed how lithium moves inside individual nanoparticles that make up batteries. The finding could help companies develop batteries that charge faster and last longer.
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Scientists Engineer Nanoscale Pillars to Act Like Memory Foam https://t.co/3sjHcjdFIw via @BrookhavenLab
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Scientists from Brookhaven Lab and the University of Connecticut have developed a customizable nanomaterial that combines metallic strength with a foam-like ability to compress and spring back. This...
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Accelerating the Self-Assembly of Nanoscale Patterns for Next-Generation Materials https://t.co/aJRBa5YoKK via @BrookhavenLab
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Scientists have come up with a way to massively speed up the ordering process for self-assembling materials. The resulting ultra-small, well-ordered patterns could be used in the fabrication of...
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Nanoscientists Develop New Material with Controllable Pores https://t.co/FTf6KarQWF via @BrookhavenLab
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Scientists at the University at Buffalo have synthesized a new material with nanoscale, controllable pores. They analyzed the material’s structure at the National Synchrotron Light Source II, using a...
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Check out the DOE Nanoscale Science Research Centers’ booth #1202 at the Fall MRS Meeting, 11/28-11/30, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA. Our scientists would be pleased to meet you and explain how we can help you with your research needs. https://t.co/rSM0LsRGDV
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Exciting new research by Materials Science & Chem Eng. Prof Jason Trelewicz @stonybrooku @BrookhavenLab uses engineered nanostructures to design new metal alloys!
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Stony Brook assistant professor Jason Trelewicz uses the electron microscopy and computing resources at Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials to characterize nanoscale structures in...
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Our nanocenter made a glare-free glass that is nearly invisible! It could improve the efficiency of solar cells
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Glare-free cell phone screens, ultra-transparent windows, and more efficient solar cells—these are some of the applications that could be enabled by texturing glass surfaces with tiny nanoscale...
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