Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience

Now accepting applications for our 4-day Nanoscience Summer Institute for Middle School Teachers (NanoSIMST) workshop! It's held over Zoom and you get a stipend and classroom supplies! Apply here: https://nanoscale.unl.edu/nanosimst/

NanoSIMST | Nebraska Nanoscale Facility | Nebraska Nanoscience Summer Institute for Middle School Teachers 2026 NanoSIMST The Nebraska Nanoscale Facility (NNF) is now accepting applications from middle school teachers for its four day, 2026 Nanoscience Summer Institute for Middle School Teachers (NanoSIMST) in partnership with Stanford University an...

Calling all STEM-related high school and community college teachers! Our RET app is open! One of the best summer experiences around! Check it out here: https://nanoscale.unl.edu/ret/

Research Experiences for Teachers | Nebraska Nanoscale Facility | Nebraska National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure Research Experience for Teachers June 15 - July 24, 2026Apply NowFull Program Details Experience the excitement of nanotechnology research at the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) Research Experience for Teachers (RET) progra...

We are so proud of our RET from Metropolitan Community College (Nebraska), Kendra Sibbernsen, and her students who won the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) competition to send a payload to the International Space Station. They'll travel to Florida this summer to see it launch!

Destination: International Space Station If you saw the northern lights this year in Nebraska, you experienced a rare occurrence that only happens during periods of intense solar activity. A team of three Metropolitan Community College students plan to explore that activity by sending a micro-gravity experiment to the International Space S...

Our Dr. Streubel spent a day with Norris High School’s dual credit chemistry students! He specializes in physics, astronomy, nanofabrication, data analysis, and more! It was a pleasure doing fun activities with these students! 

Our summer RET's presented at the 2025 conference for ! As part of their experience, they created this fantastic resource for teachers and kids interested in nanoscience and quantum physics. Check it out! bit.ly/NanoTeach

Voting for the 2025 Plenty of Beauty at the Bottom Image Contest through is open until Oct 7! Check out NNF’s two submissions and vote!

Plenty of Beauty at the Bottom | NNCI The NNCI Image Contest 2025 In honor of National Nanotechnology Day, October 9th, the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI) is hosting our annual Plenty of Beauty at the Bottom image contest. Referencing Richard Feynman’s 1959 lecture, "There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom,"...

Leveraging Nebraska's research strengths in quantum science and engineering, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln team has received a $1.8 million National Science Foundation grant to continue its work investigating two-dimensional materials. Nebraska is believed to be at the forefront of this research area, which has the potential to revolutionize battery storage and energy consumption.

Read more about the team's work >> https://go.unl.edu/ur9k

Nebraska College of Arts and Sciences | University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Physics and Astronomy | Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience

We are thrilled to have received a new grant through the NSF’s EPSCoR program! It will allow us to continue to provide instrumentation for materials science that can be used by universities, industries, and institutions across the country. Fun fact: We were the 1st to offer a commercial nitrogen vacancy low temperature scanning microscope in the United States!

Grant provides critical support for university's materials science research | Nebraska Today Husker researchers will continue their pursuit of novel two-dimensional materials with the aid of a new $1.8 million grant through the National Science Foundation’s EPSCoR program. “It is good for UNL and good for material science at UNL, in particular,” said physicist Christian Binek, who hea...

One of our RETs, Kendra Sibbernsen from Metro Community College, hard at work in her lab this summer!

We had fun collaborating with these middle school students on this project!
https://www.1011now.com/video/2025/04/29/lps-middle-school-students-invent-award-winning-device-cane-users-avoid-fall/

No better way to spend a Friday night - ’s Women in Science Conference always puts us in front of some of the best and brightest!

Now accepting applications (https://nanoscale.unl.edu/nanosimst/) from middle school teachers for our four day workshop in partnership with nano@Stanford and sponsored by the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI)!