Nanoscience
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.
Nanoscience News
Explore the latest news, events, and discoveries from the field of nanoscience.
See All NewsThe Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab celebrates ten years of scientific excellence in nanoscience
May 22, 2024
Nanoscience Science Spotlights
At Caltech, the science of the small has a big moment
Mar 12, 2024
Nanoscience Research Highlights
Identifying the current path in a quantum anomalous hall insulator
Feb 26, 2024
Kavli Exploration Award advances fresh thinking for hard-to-decarbonize materials
Nov 27, 2023
Nanoscience Science Spotlights
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
Apr 20, 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