Octahedron fractal lattice. Image Credit: Julia Greer, Kavli Nanoscience Institute, Caltech
How can basic research in nanoscience contribute to our sustainable future? What innovations drive advances in quantum materials? How might insights from biological systems shape new nanoscience discoveries?
Scientists are exploring new directions to learn how energy and matter behave at the scale of atoms, molecules, and nanostructures. The Kavli Foundation supports new research exploring the properties of materials, energy pathways, nanomachines and quantum phenomena.
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Explore the latest news, events, and discoveries from the field of nanoscience.
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Physicists and biophysicists search for missing link between quantum computing, sensing and communication
Aug 23, 2023
Nanoscience Research Highlights
Research Highlights from Kavli Nanoscience Institutes
Jun 14, 2023
Nanoscience Profile
Using an electron microscope developed at the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Yao Yang is helping elucidate copper catalysis at the Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute at UC Berkeley.
May 23, 2023
Nanoscience Research Highlights
Research Highlights from Kavli Nanoscience Institutes
May 16, 2023
Nanoscience Research Highlights
Research Highlights from Kavli Nanoscience Institutes
Apr 11, 2023
Nanoscience Perspective
As written by Cynthia M. Friend
Mar 27, 2023
Nanoscience Research Highlights
Research highlights from Kavli Nanoscience Institutes
Mar 22, 2023
Nanoscience Profile
Dan Ralph, new co-director of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, describes the strengths of the institute and what lies ahead
Mar 17, 2023
Nanoscience Research Highlights
Research highlights from Kavli Nanoscience Institutes
Feb 15, 2023
Kavli Institutes
- Kavli Energy NanoScience InstituteUniversity of California, Berkeley
- Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale ScienceCornell University
- Kavli Institute for NanoScience DiscoveryUniversity of Oxford
- Kavli Institute of Nanoscience DelftDelft University of Technology, Netherlands
- Kavli Nanoscience InstituteCalifornia Institute of Technology
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The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience is awarded for outstanding achievement in the science and application of the unique physical, chemical and biological properties of atomic, molecular, macromolecular, and cellular structures and systems that are manifest in the nanometer scale, including molecular self-assembly, nanomaterials, nanoscale instrumentation, nanobiotechnology, macromolecular synthesis, molecular mechanics and related topics.
Nanoscience deals with the smallest building blocks in nature and will enable us to make new materials and tools, leading an ever-accelerating journey of technological progress.
- Fred Kavli