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Research

The Center supports collaborative, interdisciplinary research efforts in the area of nanoscale materials. The research themes of the Center are focused broadly on molecular nanofabrication, complex inoranic materials, biological and nanoscale motors, low-dimensional electronic nanostructures, and integrated optical metamaterials. These research themes are integrated with major efforts in educational and industrial outreach. The activities of the Center involve over fifty students and postdoctoral fellows, an approximately equal number of faculty from twelve academic departments at the Penn State University Park Campus and Hershey Medical Center, and a number of external academic and industrial partners. The Center for Nanoscale Science was established in its current form in September 2002 with four Interdisciplinary Research Groups: Chemical Patterning and Nano Structures (IRG1), Molecular and Nanoscale Motors (IRG 2), Electrons in Restricted Geometries (IRG3), and Optical Metamaterials (IRG4). Common themes of complex materials synthesis and length scale dependent physical phenomena permeate all four of the IRGs. The MRSEC links current materials research and the faculty and students who perform the research to a range of educational outreach activities at the K-12, college, and postgraduate levels. MRSEC science and engineering is also well integrated with industry through research collaborations, personnel exchanges, workshops, and technology transfer.