| Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. |
Volume
3 Issue 2 - February 2010 |
|
The NNN Newsletter
Commercialization of Emergent Nanomanufacturing Platforms: Establishing Synergies and Roadmaps
A significant barrier to wide-spread adoption is the cost and difficulty of supplanting existing manufacturing capabilities and platforms, thereby limiting investment in the manufacture of nanotechnology-enabled products to high value products having no alternative pathways. Consequently, many emerging nano-enabled products, tools, and materials are achieving pilot scale commercialization. A crucial next step for nanomanufacturing is to overcome the hurdles to mass production for sustainable markets.
Regards, Learn More about the
NNI 2011 Budget and Signature Initiatives
Two Approaches to Large-Area Graphene Synthesis For Device Quality Materials
|
Upcoming Events March 7 - 10, 2010 March 7 - 11, 2010 March 9 - 12, 2010 March 21 - 25, 2010 March 24 - 25, 2010
Advertisement Upcoming Calls March 19, 2010 April 17, 2010 May 4, 2010 May 18, 2010 May 22, 2010
Advertisement Recently Published Ultralyophobic Oxidized Aluminum Surfaces Exhibiting Negligible Contact Angle Hysteresis Formation of SiO2 Air-Gap Patterns Through scCO(2) Infusion of NIL Patterned PHEMA Laser Desorption/Ionization Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Monolayer-Protected Gold Nanoparticles
Advertisement Affiliated Centers |
|
|
The National Nanomanufacturing Network Newsletter Subscribe / Unsubscribe from this list. Our mailing address is: The National Nanomanufacturing Network 322 Lederle Graduate Research Center 710 N. Pleasant Street University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 Our email address is: nnn@nanomanufacturing.org Our phone number is: (413) 577-0570 Copyright (C) 2008 The National Nanomanufacturing Network All rights reserved. Supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. DMI-0531171.  |
||
A critical dimension of nanomanufacturing is how to address the numerous technological, economic, and regulatory challenges for scaling nanoscience developments in the research laboratory into commercializable, value-added market products. Various approaches have proven effective in fostering such transitions, including corporate and venture investments, industry consortia collaborations, private-public partnerships, and technology transfer collaborations wherein academic institutions or small businesses work with large companies to expedite the transition of technologies to mainstream applications. Although several successful prototype products and demonstrations of advanced processes exist, the outcomes for many have yet to be adopted by main stream markets and manufacturing infrastructure.
Hierarchical Metal Oxide Films
The National Nanotechnology Initiative has released its 2011 Supplement to the President's Budget. In his introductory letter, Presidential Science and Technology Advisor John Holdren notes that "Nanotechnology R&D constitutes a core building block of innovation that will ultimately accelerate job creation and transform many sectors of our economy through commercialization." The NNI budget continues to grow, with $1,701 M reported in 2009 and $1.781 M estimated for 2010. The 2011 request is slightly less - $1,762 M - but is likely to be exceeded when next year's estimates appear. In addition, the identification of three signature initiatives in areas that are "ripe for significant advances through close … interagency collaboration" gives us a glimpse of future plans, although few program details are presently available. The topics are nanoelectronics, sustainable nanomanufacturing, and solar energy. 
Graphene has been attracting considerable interest in recent years as a result of its unique band structure and physical properties, including extremely high carrier mobility, that make it a promising material for the semiconductor industry, though not one without challenges. One issue to consider has been the methods used to produce graphene films, including exfoliated graphite which yields graphene sheets sufficient only for research studies. Recent approaches to large-area synthesis of high quality single layer and multilayer graphene films have been explored by thermal decomposition of single crystal silicon carbide and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on single crystal transition metals. While these approaches represent a significant step towards scaled production of quality graphene films, the requirements of high vacuum processing and expensive substrates with limited size still fall short of an integrated approach to incorporate this materials system.
