The power of today’s computing devices rests on the quantum mechanical properties of single electrons moving individually through semiconductors.

Even the most perfect materials contain myriad defects — deviations from crystalline perfection that are critical ingredients for the function of matter.

Liquids and solutions provide incubators for growth of new materials, chemical transformations, energy transduction and separations.

Interfaces between one material and another are critical elements of functional matter.

Harnessing the Water Cycle for Renewable Energy

The goal of this theme is to study excitation driven energy flow and structural transitions in nanoscale materials on femtosecond to millisecond timescales over ångström to macroscopic length scales.

The goal of this theme is to study the mechanical forces and the electromagnetic interactions between nanoscale constituents at length scales that vary from the atomic to the sub-micron.

The goal of this theme is to combine CNM’s expertise in synthesis, fabrication, characterization and theory on nanometer length scales to discover fundamental mechanisms and materials for quantum information and sensing.

Designing the software infrastructure for the world’s most powerful computers