Working with the NNNThe NNN continues to build partnerships with industry, government and academia, and seeks opportunities to formalize new affiliations. Partners and affiliates will find value through a range of services including training and education, industrial vision and roadmap development, thematic conferences and workshops, and the promotion of best practices in nanomanufacturing. InterNano (www.internano.org) is the information clearinghouse of the NNN, providing additional services for knowledge sharing, such as highlighting and archiving relevant news and publications, providing expert reviews of recently published literature, maintaining a database of emerging nanomanufacturing processes, facilitating a self-maintained database of experts and organizations, and promoting updates of nanomanufacturing testbeds ongoing throughout the US. If you are interested in partnering with the NNN, contact us.  In order to advance nanomanufacturing and competitiveness in the US, collaborations must be established between key resources and expertise to address challenges of significant national importance. The long-term vision for nanomanufacturing will involve revolutionary processes and practices, tools, materials, and embedded metrology and analytical techniques. To facilitate the necessary breakthroughs that will have hig ...

Nanomanufacturing Summit 2009 May 27 - 29, 2009Boston, MA.The Nanomanufacturing Summit 2009 is a showcase for high-quality technical contributions by experts and practitioners in the field of nanomanufacturing, as well as a networking event for the broader nanomanufacturing (NM) community. A primary objective is to highlight those areas of practice that stand out from the general nanotechnology and nanoscience themes as being near-term and having the potential to facilitate the commercial development and/or marketable application of nanoscale systems and devices.Research Challenges for Nanomanufacturing Systems February 11 - 12, 2008Arlington, VA.Advancing nanotechnology from the laboratory into high volume industrial production for commercial use ultimately requires careful study of manufacturing system issues including product design, reliability and quality, process design and control, shop floor operations and supply chain management.    The identification and resolution of potential bottlenecks and implementation challenges is essential to achieve commercialization and realize the potential of large investments in fundamental research.    This 1½ day workshop will bring together approximately 25 leading experts to identify key issues for manufacturing of nanotechnology-enabled products a ...

The National Nanomanufacturing Network (NNN) is an alliance of academic, government, and industry partners that cooperate to advance nanomanufacturing strength in the U.S. The goal of the NNN is to build a network of experts and organizations that facilitate and expedite the transition of nanotechnologies from core research and breakthroughs in the laboratory to production manufacturing. The NNN fosters technology transition and exchange through a host of activities including reviews and archiving of emerging materials, processes, and areas of practice, strategic workshops and roadmap development, and information archiving in areas of processes and tools, standards, reports, events, and environmental health and safety databases supported through InterNano.org, a project of the NNN  providing resources for nanomanufacturing.The NNN is funded by the National Science Foundation.Background Over the last several years the federal government, through the National Nanotechnology Initiative, has made strategic funding investments to spark innovations in nanotechnology. This has resulted in a growing portfolio of laboratory discoveries that promise new applications with tremendous societal benefit. To realize this potential, however, these proof-of-concept scientific advancements must make their way into factories. To do so is no e ...

In order to advance the state of nanomanufacturing in the US, the NNN seeks to establish a broad base of key partnerships and affiliations. At the core of this are the flagship partners at the NSF Nanomanufacturing Centers, with recent established affiliations with NIST and DOE National Laboratories.  NSF Nanomanufacturing Centers The Center for Nanoscale Chemical-Electrical-Mechanical Manufacturing Systems (Nano-CEMMS), directed by Placid Ferriera and based at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, develops nanomanufacturing methods based on molecular gate-based printing, electrohydrodynamic writing, electrochemical patterning and microfluidic processing. Academic partners include CalTech and North Carolina A&T.The Center for High Rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN), directed by Ahmed Busnaina and based at Northeastern University, is focused on developing tools and processes that enable high-rate/high-volume bottom-up, precise, parallel assembly of nanoelements and polymer nanostructures. CHN academic partners include UMass Lowell and University of New Hampshire. The Center for Scalable and Integrated Nanomanufacturing (SINAM), directed by Xiang Zhang and based at the University of California Berkeley, develops methods for lithography below 20 nm and fabrication of 3D complex nanostructures. Academic partners include ...