nano @ stanford

Providing access to world-leading facilities and expertise in nanoscale science and engineering for internal users and for external users from academic, industrial, and government labs.

What is nano?
Nanotechnology is studying science and technology of small things, as small as one billionth of a meter or 10^-9 meters! This is one of the most promising areas in science and engineering today. The ability to create materials and devices at the nanoscale has applications in every area of life, from more effective medicines to ultrafast communications and cleaner fuels.

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nano @ stanford is part of the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), supporting 16 user facility sites, their affiliated partners, and a coordinating office. NNCI embraces diversity and welcomes, recruits, educates, employs, serves, and engages a diverse group of users, students, faculty, and staff with a wide variety of backgrounds, perspectives, interests, and talents, creating a community of teachers, learners, and researchers that exemplifies the best in all of us – in our intellectual pursuits, our diversity of thought, our personal integrity, and our commitment to excellence.

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nano @ stanford is supported by the National Science Foundation as part of the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure under award ECCS-1542152.