Center for Functional Nanomaterials

The Brookhaven National Laboratory Center for Functional Nanomaterials will provide researchers with state-of-the-art capabilities to fabricate and study nanoscale materials. Functional materials are those which exhibit a predetermined chemical or physical response to external stimuli. The Center's focus is to achieve a basic understanding of how these materials respond when in nanoscale form. Nanomaterials--typically on the scale of billionths of a meter--offer different chemical and physical properties than bulk materials, and have the potential to form the basis of new technologies.