Molecular Foundry

Overview

Center facilities

• Imaging and Manipulation of Nanostructures, led by Facility Director Alex Weber-Bargioni and was founded by Miquel Salmeron.
• * State-of-the-art characterization and manipulation of nanostructures—from "hard" to very "soft" matter—combining electron microscopy, optical microscopy and scanning probe microscopy.
• Nanofabrication - The nanofabrication facility is led by Facility Director Stefano Cabrini and was founded by Jeff Bokor.
• * Advanced lithography and thin-film processing emphasizing integration with chemical and biological nanosystems and the development of nanoscale electronic, magnetic and photonic devices.
• Theory of Nanostructured Materials, led by Facility Director Yi Liu and was founded by Steven Louie.
• * Theoretical support to guide understanding of new principles, behavior and experiments—including electrical transport in nanoscale molecular junctions, self-assembly of biological nanostructures and computation of spectroscopy at hybrid nanoscale interfaces.
• Inorganic Nanostructures, led by Facility Director Jeff Urban and was founded by A. Paul Alivisatos.
• * The science of semiconductor, carbon and hybrid nanostructures—including design and synthesis of nanocrystals, nanowires and nanotubes—and study of their electronic applications.
• Biological Nanostructures, Led by Facility Director Corie Ralston and was founded by Carolyn R. Bertozzi.
• * New materials based on the self-assembly of biopolymers and bio-inspired polymers, new probes for bio-imaging and synthetic biology techniques to re-engineer organisms and create hybrid biomolecules to interface with devices.
• Organic and Macromolecular Synthesis, led by Facility Director Yi Liu and was founded by Jean Fréchet.
• * Studies of "soft" materials—including synthesis of organic molecules, macromolecules, polymers and their assemblies, with access to functional systems, photoactive, organic-inorganic hybrid and porous materials.
• National Center for Electron Microscopy , led by Facility Director Andy Minor. NCEM was founded in 1983 as an independent DOE user facility and merged with the Molecular Foundry in 2014.
• * Use and development of an array of state-of-the-art electron microscopes, offering a wide range of capabilities for materials characterization at high resolution. Several of these instruments, most notably the TEAM suite of microscopes, are unique and world class.

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