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and Advanced Materials

Nanotechnology—the ability to control materials and devices at the atomic and molecular level—is enabling revolutionary changes.

Building upon the Institute’s traditional strengths in materials science and engineering, Rensselaer researchers are part of a pre-eminent group of scientists around the world working to manipulate matter with atomic precision.

With an NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center on campus, a new microelectronics clean room capable of fabrication on the nano-level, and a talented group of biotechnology researchers bringing nano-capabilities to their work, Rensselaer has taken a place at the heart of what has been framed by some as the next “industrial revolution”.

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Carbon Nanotube Versatility
Ranging from a potential new water desalination technology to airplane wings that can diagnose and heal their own cracks, several projects led by Nikhil Koratkar, associate professor of mechanical engineering, are demonstrating the usefulness and versatility of carbon nanotubes.
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* Stuck On "Nanoglue" *
Stuck On “Nanoglue”
Materials that don’t normally stick together can be bonded by using a one-nanometer-high layer of self-assembling polymer chains, a Rensselaer team has discovered. The extraordinarily thin “nanoglue,” which gains strength as temperatures rise, could be a breakthrough for next-generation computer chips, and it could also be useful in such applications as high-temperature coatings.
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Making Computers From a Pencil Trace
Rensselaer researchers have discovered a new technique to exploit the extremely efficient conductive properties of graphene. Working with graduate student Philip Shemella and others, Saroj Nayak, associate professor of physics, applied physics, and astronomy, has demonstrated for the first time that the length and width of graphene directly impacts the material’s conduction properties.
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Strengthening Fluids With Nanoparticles
Researchers have demonstrated that liquids embedded with nanoparticles show enhanced performance and stability when exposed to electric fields. The finding could lead to new types of miniature camera lenses, cell phone displays, and other microscale fluidic devices.
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Helping Nanotubes Get Into Shape
Rensselaer researchers have developed a new method of compacting carbon nanotubes into dense bundles that are efficient electrical conductors and could one day replace copper as the primary interconnects used on computer chips. They may also hasten the transition to next-generation 3-D stacked chips.
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Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations
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Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations
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One of the world’s most powerful university-based supercomputing centers, CCNI continues to advance semiconductor technology at the nanoscale, and is enabling key nanotechnology innovations in the fields of energy, biotechnology, new materials, arts, and medicine.
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“At Rensselaer, we make all our own nanoscale building blocks, from nanoparticles to nanotubes to hybrid structures comprised of both. That gives us a tremendous advantage in terms of controlling the nature of these structures and how they relate to one another.”
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—Richard Siegel, director of the Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center
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