| Rensselaer Recognized Newly Remodeled Nanotechnology Center
Rensselaer recognized its newly remodeled Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center (RNC) on Monday, Sept. 15. The center was founded in April 2001 under the direction of Richard Siegel, the Robert W. Hunt Professor of Material Science and Engineering.
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Center Director Richard Siegel and President Shirley Ann Jackson.
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The RNC contains a Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, one of only six of its kind in the country. The National Science Foundation awarded the center a five-year, $10 million grant. In addition, the center receives gift funds from five industry partners; a matching grant of $2.5 million over five years from the New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research (NYSTAR); numerous additional grants from the federal government; as well as matching funds from Rensselaer. Total annual funding amounts to about $6 million.
The renovated facilities include an atomic force microscope, which can visualize structures as small as one nanometer in diameter. The center also houses a nanoscale particle generator as well as the equipment needed to produce and study nanotubes. This advanced facility will foster continuing research in areas including developing new materials with extraordinary strength, dramatically downsizing electronic components, and creating biologically based replacements for skin and bone.
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