The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) is an integrated

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operating jointly at

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and

UC Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an independent teachers college, UCSB joined ...

. Its missions are to foster interdisciplinary collaborations for discoveries in nanosystems and

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; train the next generation of

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, educators, and technology leaders; and facilitate partnerships with industry, fueling economic development and the social well-being of

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, the

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and the

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. CNSI was created by Governor

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as part of a science and innovation initiative, it was established in 2000 with $100 million from the state of California and an additional $250 million in federal research grants and industry funding. At the institute, scientists in the areas of

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and

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measure, modify and manipulate the building blocks the world –

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s and

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s. These scientists benefit from an integrated laboratory culture enabling them to conduct dynamic research at the

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, leading to significant breakthroughs in the areas of

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, the environment and

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History

On December 7, 2000, California Governor Gray Davis announced the location of the federally sponsored California NanoSystems Institute section of the California Institutes for Science and Innovation (Cal ISI) initiative. The California legislature put forth $100 million for three research facilities to advance the future of the state's economy. The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) was selected out of the proposals along with three other Cal ISIs:

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(QB3),

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(Cal-(IT)2), and Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS). In August 2000, CNSI was founded on both campuses of UCSB and UCLA. Martha Krebs, the former director of the

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's Office of Science, was named the founder.

Active leaders

UCLA

The people in charge of UCLA CNSI fall into two categories: directors and associate directors.

Directorship

*Jeff F. Miller, Ph.D. - Director

Associate Directors

*Dave Avery - Associate Director of Research Administration *Andre Nel, M.D., Ph.D. - Director of Research * Heather Maynard, Ph.D. - Associate Director of Technology & Development *Aydogan Ozcan, Ph.D. - Associate Director of Entrepreneurship, Industry and Academic Exchange * Leonard H. Rome, Ph.D. - Associate Director of Facilities Management *Adam Z. Stieg, Ph.D. - Associate Director of Technology Centers

UCSB

The people in charge of UCSB CNSI fall into two categories: administrative staff and the faculty.

Directorship

Craig Hawker Craig Jon Hawker (born 11 January 1964) is an Australian-born chemist. His research has focused on the interface between organic and polymer chemistry, with emphasis on the design, synthesis, and application of well-defined macromolecular stru ...

- Director * Javier Read de Alaniz - Associate Director *

Megan Valentine Megan T. Valentine is an American engineer. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara anCo-Director of the California NanoSystems Institute Valentine's research focuses on understanding how forces ...

- Associate Director * Stephen Wilson - Associate Director

Administrative staff

* Holly Woo - Assistant Director, Administration * Eva Deloa - Financial Manager *Bob Hanson - Building Manager **The building manager is responsible for the maintenance, facility resource leads, and infrastructure of CNSI. The building manager oversees any changes in infrastructure or maintenance to the labs or the building as a whole.

Biology and biomedical

The research fields of nanobiology (

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) and

biomedicine Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine)

show promise in the connection of nanoscale science to biological/nonbiological matter. New diagnostic methods and ways to administer increasingly efficient disease-specific treatments are also being researched and developed.

Energy efficiency

Nanotechnology has promise to help fight

global warming Present-day climate change includes both global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its wider effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes ...

. Nanoscale research can promise more efficient, less wasteful technologies. Also,

allows us to control, transform, and store energy more efficiently.

Information technologies

Both UCLA and UCSB CNSI labs show potential to develop upgrades in the processing, storage, and transmission of information and increases in the speed of information processing.

Partnerships

The California NanoSystems Institute is dependent on partnerships with technological companies to help fund and run its research facilities. Partnerships fund the operation and expansions of CNSI in addition to the $250 million government research grants received in 2000. Increasing numbers of partnerships were created due to budget cuts by the state.

UCLA

CNSI has international partnerships with the

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, the Beijing Nano Center, the

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, the

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Yonsei University Yonsei University () is a Private university, private Christian university, Christian research university located in Seoul, South Korea. Yonsei is one of the three most prestigious universities in the country, part of a group referred to as SK ...

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, and

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Founding partners

Partners that joined when the institute was created include: * Abraxis BioScience *

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The Chemical Company *

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer compo ...

* HP

Associate partners

Partners that joined after creation include: *

NEC is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered at the NEC Supertower in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It provides IT and network solutions, including cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), Inte ...

* Solarmer Energy, Inc. *

Keithley Instruments Keithley Instruments is a measurement and instrument company headquartered in Solon, Ohio, that develops, manufactures, markets, and sells data acquisition products, as well as complete systems for high-volume production and assembly testing. ...

Company * Photron

UCSB

Applied Materials Applied Materials, Inc. is an American corporation that supplies equipment, services and software for the manufacture of semiconductor (integrated circuit) chips for electronics, flat panel displays for computers, smartphones, televisions, and ...

Hewlett-Packard The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company. It was founded by Bill Hewlett and David Packard in 1939 in a one-car garage in Palo Alto, California ...

Labs *

Microsoft Research Microsoft Research (MSR) is the research subsidiary of Microsoft. It was created in 1991 by Richard Rashid, Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold with the intent to advance state-of-the-art computing and solve difficult world problems through technologi ...

* Sputtered Films / Tegal Corporation *

Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc., often known as Sun for short, was an American technology company that existed from 1982 to 2010 which developed and sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services. Sun contributed sig ...

* VEECO

Educational opportunities

K-12

Both campuses offer several educational opportunities including hands-on laboratory research experience for junior high students and their teachers. These activities are done in collaboration with graduate students researching similar fields. UCSB scientists and researchers run family science nights at local junior highs to allow families to participate in scientific activities with their children with after-school

and science club for grades 3–8 to explore science with UCSB undergrad club leaders. CNSI also hosts research opportunities for high school juniors and local Santa Barbara teachers on the UCSB campus. In addition, CNSI at UCSB holds a summer program called SIMS (Summer Institute of Math and Science) for incoming freshmen.

Undergraduate

Both UCLA and UCSB contribute to various scholarships for incoming freshmen. They offer

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courses that give insight into all fields and majors of math and science. Undergraduates act as club leaders and mentors to younger ages in grades K-12. Undergraduates also have extensive research opportunities in several fields during the year and through summer on either campus. Students within CNSI's UCSB affiliation, the UCSB Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, can choose to intern or volunteer at the institute for lab experience.

Graduate

Graduate opportunities are limited to: * Mentoring: **Community college students **Incoming freshmen **High school juniors **High school teachers **Undergraduates *Assisting researchers in the lab"Graduate".

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References

External links

California NanoSystems Institute - CNSI UCLA chapter (main)

California NanoSystems Institute - CNSI UCSB chapter
{{DEFAULTSORT:California Nanosystems Institute Nanotechnology institutions NanoSystems Institute University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Santa Barbara 2000 establishments in California UCLA research institutes

History

Active leaders

UCLA

Directorship

Associate Directors

UCSB

Directorship

Administrative staff

Biology and biomedical

Energy efficiency

Information technologies

Partnerships

UCLA

Founding partners

Associate partners

UCSB

Educational opportunities

K-12

Undergraduate

Graduate

See also

References

External links