Happy belated Nanotechnology Day! Nanotechnology is the manipulation and manufacturing of materials and devices on the scale of atoms or small groups of atoms.
Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Technologies Office
October 17, 2024
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This award-winning image of MXenes resembles nature's blooms on the nanoscale.
Francisco Lagunas Vargas and Zachary Hood, Argonne National Laboratory
Happy belated Nanotechnology Day! Nanotechnology is the manipulation and manufacturing of materials and devices on the scale of atoms or small groups of atoms. In the United States, Nanotechnology Day is celebrated on October 9 as a wink and nod to the nanometer length scale—a nanometer is one-billionth of a meter, or 10-9 meters. To celebrate, let’s highlight some recent nano-news!
- In a recently published edition of Nature Nanotechnology, a diverse group of experts from across the U.S. government—including AMMTO technology manager Tina Kaarsberg—collaborated to outline how nanotechnology can help accelerate progress toward addressing the climate crisis.
- AMMTO’s Conductivity-enhanced materials for Affordable, Breakthrough, Leapfrog Electric and thermal applications (CABLE) posted award winning images of MXenes—a promising (and beautiful) class of new two-dimensional materials from one of its newest awardees at Argonne National Laboratory.
- AMMTO’s Microelectronics Energy Efficiency Scaling for 2 Decades (EES2) Initiative posted a video of its Nano Day Pledge Signing Ceremony for its five newest participants at National Nanotechnology Day | National Nanotechnology Initiative.