What is the NNCI?
The National Science Foundation (NSF) supports 16 user facility sites, their affiliated partners, and a coordinating office as part of a the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI). The NNCI sites provide researchers from academia, small and large companies, and government with access to university user facilities with leading-edge fabrication and characterization tools, instrumentation, and expertise within all disciplines of nanoscale science, engineering and technology.
Expert Spotlight
Expert Spotlight
Jiong Hua
Materials and Nanoscience Specialist
NNF
Tool Spotlight
Tool Spotlight
XPS: PHI Versaprobe
Metrology/Characterization
Thin Film
XPS
Site Spotlight
SDNI
The San Diego Nanotechnology Infrastructure (SDNI) offers affordable access to university facilities with leading-edge tools, training and expertise in all disciplines of nanoscale science, engineering and technology to academic, government, and industrial researchers, and hands-on education and outreach events for novice users.
At its core, NNCI exists to help scientists and engineers from around the country access the state-of-the-art resources necessary to participate in the nanotechnology revolution.
Did you know?
A gecko can walk up a wall and across a ceiling because of nanoscale "spatulas" on the bottom of their feet? One gecko has about one billion of these.
Nanotechnology is not limited to one particular traditional field of research. In fact, it impacts almost every scientific and engineering discipline.