Nanomaterials for the New Millenium

Specific Institute projects are:

• Nanomedicine
• Left-Handed Metamaterials
• Spintronics
• Nanomaterials for Portable Power
• Computational modeling of Nanomaterials

The revolutionary progress in computers, the Internet and wireless communications all originate from developments in materials science. At the dawn of the new Millenium, entirely new concepts, such as "Ubiquitous Computing", "Tether-free world" and Single-Chip radio, are emerging that require significant advances in materials and devices.

While research during the previous millennium was primarily concerned with naturally occurring materials, scientific and technological breakthroughs in the new millennium will be driven by designer materials. Teraflop computing power, combined with the ability to control and manipulate matter at the nanoscale, provides a new paradigm where materials with “better” or even “unnatural” properties can be conceived, designed, synthesized, characterized and utilized.

An overview of the Institutes thrusts is provided in the diagram below.