Nanoscience and Technology

The Nanoscience and Technology division at Argonne National Laboratory hosts the Center for Nanoscale Materials, a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility, in addition to performing world-class nanoscience.

We bring together scientists and engineers from national laboratories, industry and academia to meet nanoscience and nanotechnology challenges. Our research ranges from fundamental to use-inspired nanoscience with connections to industry and the Argonne applied science divisions.

Research Highlight

Reducing electronic waste with biodegradable luminescent polymers

As shown in a Nature Sustainability paper, researchers have created a luminescent polymer that is both depolymerizable and recyclable.

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Research Highlight

Bottleneck in heterostructure yields red and green luminescence

In a Nano Letters paper, researchers that heterostructures of CdSe/CdTe/CdSe exhibit bicolor luminescence, which is attributed to a hole relaxation bottleneck.

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Two artistic renderings side by side: image on left shows a cathode particle prepared with high heat-up rate breaking apart. Image on right shows particle prepared with lower heat-up rate remaining intact.

Press Release

Argonne researchers crack a key problem with sodium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and grid energy storage

Argonne scientists have advanced sodium-ion batteries by preventing cracks in the cathode particles during the synthesis process, making them a cost-effective and sustainable alternative to lithium-ion batteries.

Energy Technology and Storage, Batteries and Fuel Cells, Grid Modernization

Saw Wai Hla wins Falling Walls Science Breakthrough of the Year award for physical sciences.

Press Release

Argonne physicist honored with 2024 Science Breakthrough of the Year

The German Falling Walls Foundation is recognizing Hla for using a new X-ray capability in a way that could be widely applied in environmental and medical research and the development of batteries and microelectronic devices.

Chemistry, Computer Science and Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering