NSF Funding Opportunity - NanoManufacturing

The NanoManufacturing Program was established in 2001 to promote fundamental research and education at the nanoscale, and to transfer developments in nanoscience and nanotechnology discoveries from the laboratory to industrial application with prominent societal impacts. The program emphasizes scaleup of nanotechnology for high rate production, reliability, robustness, yield, efficiency and cost issues for manufacturing products and services. NanoManufacturing capitalizes on the special material properties and processing capabilities at the nanoscale, and promotes integration of nanostructures to functional micro devices and meso/macroscale architectures and systems, as well as the interfacing issues across dimensional scales. The program covers interdisciplinary research and promotes multi-functionality across all energetic domains, including mechanical, thermal, fluidic, chemical, biochemical, electromagnetic, optical etc. The focus of NanoManufacturing is in a systems approach, encompassing nanoscale materials and structures, fabrication and integration processes, production equipment and characterization instrumentation, theory/modeling/simulation and control tools, biomimetic design and integration of multiscale functional systems, and industrial application. The program places special emphasis in NanoManufacturing education and training of the workforce, involvement of socio-economic sciences, addressing the health, safety and environmental implications, development of manufacturing infrastructure, as well as outreach and synergy of the academic, industrial, federal and international community. Read more