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National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI)

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Synopsis

Over the past decade of its authorized award life, the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) has enabled major discoveries, innovations, and contributions to education and commerce by providing researchers from academia, small and large companies, and government with open access to university user facilities with leading-edge fabrication and characterization tools, instrumentation, and expertise within all disciplines of nanoscale science, engineering, and technology. The National Science Foundation is now moving forward with the new National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) as the successor to the NNIN.

This solicitation establishes a competition for individual university user facility sites positioned across the nation. A Coordinating Office will then be selected competitively at a later stage from among the selected sites to enhance their impact as a national infrastructure of user facility sites. The ultimate selection of user facility sites will include capabilities and instrumentation addressing current and anticipated future user needs across the broad areas of nanoscale science, engineering, and technology.

Program contacts

Name Email Phone Organization
Richard Nash
 rnash@nsf.gov (703) 292-5394 ENG/ECCS
Luciana Astiz
 lastiz@nsf.gov (703) 292-4705 GEO/EAR
Sankar Basu
 sabasu@nsf.gov (703) 292-7843 CISE/CCF
Virginia C. Carter
 vccarter@nsf.gov (703) 292-4651
Khershed P. Cooper
 khcooper@nsf.gov (703) 292-7017
Colby A. Foss
 cfoss@nsf.gov (703) 292-5327 MPS/CHE
Frederick Kronz
 fkronz@nsf.gov (703) 292-7283
Maija M. Kukla
 mkukla@nsf.gov (703) 292-4940 OD/OISE
Matthew McCune
 mamccune@nsf.gov (703) 292-2906
Sally O'Connor
 socconor@nsf.gov (703) 292-4552
Souleymane Omar Diallo
 somardia@nsf.gov (703) 292-8302
Nora F. Savage
 NOSAVAGE@nsf.gov (703) 292-7949 ENG/CBET
Guebre X. Tessema
 gtessema@nsf.gov (703) 292-4935

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