Working with the NNN

The 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 high impact in the nanomanufacturing community, information exchange, resource partnering, and open discussion of ideas, discoveries, and best practices will be necessary. The NNN will address the key challenges in providing an open platform for networking while protecting the proprietary information and intellectual property concerns of the community.

The NNN's role in facilitating these key collaborations will serve the nanomanufacturing community as a whole, by:

• Providing reviews and information archives on emerging nanomanufacturing topics addressing the needs of small businesses, large businesses, and specific industrial sectors.
• Connecting members having specific needs with members having potential solutions.
• Establishing a virtual user network with the NNN affiliates and developing appropriate guides for working with the user network.
• Promoting and establishing research testbeds and demonstrators for new nanomanufacturing techniques through the NNN affiliates.
• Establishing nanomanufacturing research roadmaps for specific industrial sectors.
• Providing an information exchange forum through InterNano to enable direct communications between member organizations and individuals in the field.

The NNN encourages registration of individual and organizational resource information in it's directory in order to facilitate networking, sharing of timely information, and partnering of key resources. This self-maintained directory enables registrants to provide individual or organizational information on capabilities, needs, links, publications, patents, and processes. Members may further provide important feedback on news highlights, events, reviews of recent publications, and issues impacting the commercialization of nano-enabled products.

The NNN anticipates the inclusion of additional university, government, and industrial partners to extend both the educational and practical outreach to a broad range of technology sectors, including:

• Electronics and Semiconductor
• IT and Telecommunications
• Aerospace and Automotive
• Energy and Utilities
• Materials and Chemical
• Forest and Paper Products
• Food
• Pharmaceutical, Biomedical and Biotechnology
• Environment and National Security
• Clothing and Personal Care

If you would like to work with the NNN to find resources, collaborators, workshops or to help define your nanomanufacturing needs, please contact us.