Birck Nanotechnology Center

Research at Purdue invites those on campus to attend an open house at the Birck Nanotechnology Center on January 31 from 2-4 p.m.

The event will focus on upgrades to the facility and plans for the future, which reflect Purdue University's commitment to providing its students and faculty with state-of-the-art research infrastructure.

Topics covered during the information session will include the U.S. Chips Act, quantum initiatives and potential translational research opportunities and a vision for engaging with semiconductor companies and start-ups under CHIPS Act R&D programs while supporting broader, more fundamental research.

Speakers will include Zhihong Chen, Director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center, and Mark Lundstrom, Chief Semiconductor Officer at Purdue (and founding director of nanoHUB!) among others.

Register for the info session and facility tours ⬇️
https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eLP0KXpuBDLaDIi

SMART Team at CES 2024 in Las Vegas

Birck First Nanoscience Expo

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🍽

Did you know there are parts of the world where you can extract water from the air? Different methods work better in different places. David Warsinger explains how this map could be the key to new sources of fresh water around the world: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ME/News/2022/atmospheric-water-harvesting-can-we-get-water-out-of-thin-air

Full research article: https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ee01071b

Economic future of U.S. depends on making engineering cool The United States wants to build its own computer chips again but not enough workers know how. Purdue is one of several universities racing to expand education.

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Congratulations to Prof. Warsinger

MSE Assistant Professor, Rahim Rahimi has created a process that immobilizes silver onto the implant surfaces of titanium orthopedic devices to improve antibacterial properties and cellular integration. This can help reduce infection when medical devices are implanted into people. bit.ly/Rahimi-Silver

What is nanotechnology?

We’d like to help answer that question for by sharing our series on nanoHUB, Introductory Seminars on “What is Nanotechnology?”

Since a nanometer is 10-9 meters, October 9th, or 10-09, is the perfect day to celebrate.

Check out our collection of classic presentations here: https://nanohub.org/resources/7486?r=fb.

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Congratulations to Dr. Rosa E. Diaz on her recognition as a 2021 Bravo Award recipient for her extraordinary efforts during COVID-19. Thanks to her efforts along with the BNC scientists and engineers it helped 7,000 researchers safely returned to campus!

Congratulations to BNC Faculty member Professor Mike Manfra on being recognized as a finalist of the Falling Walls Foundation 2021 Award in Physical Sciences. Professor Manfra & his team utilize the BNC's Lithography Core facilities & supporting toolset for device fabrication.

Purdue physicist earns global recognition with Falling Walls Foundation honor It is commonly known that two types of fundamental particles make up the universe: bosons and fermions. Bosons and fermions behave very differently due to fundamentally different statistical properties.