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NATIONAL INITIATIVE:
NSF funds big plans on small scale
 The
National Science Foundation selected Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
this fall as one of six national Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Centers (NSEC). Rensselaer will receive $10 million over five
years from the NSF to fund the center. Additional funding comes
from New York state, Rensselaer, and industry.
Called the Center for Directed Assembly of Nanostructures,
the NSEC at Rensselaer will be headed by nanoscience pioneer Richard
W. Siegel, Robert W. Hunt Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
at Rensselaer.
The NSF awarded the six centers as part of the
federal government’s $500 million National Nanotechnology
Initiative. The initiative stemmed from a 1996-1998 worldwide
study, led by Siegel, of trends in nanostructure science.
Research in the NSF Center at Rensselaer
could lead to smart drug delivery systems, bio-engineered
tissues, and novel nanoscale devices for electronic, magnetic,
and photonic applications.
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The center will address fundamental scientific
issues underlying the design and synthesis of new materials and
structures with dramatically different and improved properties.
Research in the NSF Center at Rensselaer could lead to smart drug
delivery systems, bioengineered tissues, and novel nanoscale devices
for electronic, magnetic, and photonic
applications.
The NSF Center involves a partnership among Rensselaer,
the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, and Los Alamos
National Laboratory. In addition to the NSF funding, Rensselaer
and UIUC, New York state, and industry will each contribute $500,000
a year for the next five years for a total of more than $17 million.
Two other New York universities, Cornell and Columbia,
received the NSF designation. The other three recipients were
Northwestern, Harvard, and Rice universities.
The following pages provide examples of nanotechnology
research at Rensselaer.
CONTACT: Theresa Bourgeois, (518) 276-2840,
bourgt@rpi.edu
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