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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 bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=… via @BrookhavenLab

Summer Sundays: Exploring the Ultra Small on July 22

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 bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=… via @BrookhavenLab

Engineering Professor Karen Chen-Wiegart Receives NSF CAREER Award for Her Research at SBU and BNL

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 bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=… via @BrookhavenLab

High-School Students Studying Carbon-Based Nanomaterials for Cancer Drug Delivery Visit Brookhaven...

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 bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=… via @BrookhavenLab
A First: Trapping Noble Gases in 2D Porous Structures at Room Temp nersc.gov/news-publications/…
CFN User Spotlight: Laura Fabris Develops Nanoparticle-Based Tags to Detect Cancer and Viruses at the Single-Cell Level bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=… via @BrookhavenLab

CFN User Spotlight: Laura Fabris Develops Nanoparticle-Based Tags to Detect Cancer and Viruses at...

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 bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=… via @BrookhavenLab

Understanding the Generation of Light-Induced Electrical Current in Atomically Thin Nanomaterials

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 bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=… via @BrookhavenLab

New Details of Molecular Machinery that Builds Plant Cell Wall Components

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" bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=… via @BrookhavenLab

Brookhaven Lab's Matthew Sfeir Named a Battelle "Inventor of the Year"

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 bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=… via @BrookhavenLab

Researchers Engineer New Pathways for Self-Assembled Nanostructures

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 bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=… via @BrookhavenLab

Atomic Flaws Create Surprising, High-Efficiency UV LED Materials

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 bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=… via @BrookhavenLab

Surprising Discovery Could Lead to Better Batteries

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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Q&A with CFN User Xiaowei Teng

Teng of the University of New Hampshire brings his research to design new types of nanostructured materials for energy conversion and storage applications to Brookhaven Lab’s Center for Functional...

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Scientists Engineer Nanoscale Pillars to Act Like Memory Foam bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=… via @BrookhavenLab

Scientists Engineer Nanoscale Pillars to Act Like Memory Foam

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 bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=… via @BrookhavenLab

Accelerating the Self-Assembly of Nanoscale Patterns for Next-Generation Materials

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 bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=… via @BrookhavenLab

Nanoscientists Develop New Material with Controllable Pores

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. mrs.org/fall2017
Exciting new research by Materials Science & Chem Eng. Prof Jason Trelewicz @stonybrooku @BrookhavenLab uses engineered nanostructures to design new metal alloys! bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=…

Designing New Metal Alloys Using Engineered Nanostructures

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 bnl.gov/newsroom/news.php?a=…

Making Glass Invisible: A Nanoscience-Based Disappearing Act

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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