Achievement
The Nanomaterials and Sustainability Workshop was held on May 4th, 2023 as part of the annual Advanced Photon Source/Center for Nanoscale Materials Users Meeting. The publication highlighted here summarizes the invited speakers’ feedback on major sustainability challenges and how nanomaterials can address those challenges.
Significance and Impact
Nanostructuring adds a tremendous degree of tunability to the optical, electronic, magnetic, tribological and chemical properties of matter. As a result, nanostructured materials already play major roles in the many technologies and industries that provide the comfort and convenience of our everyday lives. However, the potential impact of nanoscale materials on sustainability remains to be fully utilized when one considers that the nanostructure-property-composition exploration phase space is almost infinite. This publication describes opportunities for nanomaterials to contribute to sustainability across many industries and technologies, organized into the three topical areas shown on the left.
About Argonne’s Center for Nanoscale Materials
The Center for Nanoscale Materials is one of the five DOE Nanoscale Science Research Centers, premier national user facilities for interdisciplinary research at the nanoscale supported by the DOE Office of Science. Together the NSRCs comprise a suite of complementary facilities that provide researchers with state-of-the-art capabilities to fabricate, process, characterize and model nanoscale materials, and constitute the largest infrastructure investment of the National Nanotechnology Initiative. The NSRCs are located at DOE’s Argonne, Brookhaven, Lawrence Berkeley, Oak Ridge, Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories. For more information about the DOE NSRCs, please visit https://science.osti.gov/User-Facilities/User-Facilities-at-a-Glance.
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