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The National Nanofabrication Users Network (NNUN): Potential Applicability for Bio/Biomedical Science and Technology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

M. S. Isaacson
M. S. Isaacson*
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School of Applied and Engineering Physics and Cornell Nanofabrication Facility, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York14853
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For several decades the US scientific community has recognized the value of pooling specialized skills and equipment in centralized user facilities. Significant efficiencies are realized within the user community by avoiding unnecessary duplication and by moving projects more quickly to completion. The user facility concept served the nanofabrication community well for over two decades at the National Nanofabrication Facility (NNF) at Cornell. In 1994, the National Science Foundation expanded the concept by integrating NNF-Cornell (Now CNF) with several other nanofabrication programs throughout the country to form the National Nanofabrication Users Network (NNUN). Within this framework of a “users” network, scientists and engineers have access to state of the art equipment and expertise.

NNUN consists of two “full service” hub facilities at Cornell (the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility) and Stanford (the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility), in association with specialized facilities at Howard, Penn State and UC-Santa Barbara. The network is managed by the 5 site directors, who are responsible to NSF program management and to a Network Advisory Board.

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Shared Resources: Access to Critical Instrumentation
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Microscopy and Microanalysis , Volume 3 , Issue S2: Proceedings: Microscopy & Microanalysis '97, Microscopy Society of America 55th Annual Meeting, Microbeam Analysis Society 31st Annual Meeting, Histochemical Society 48th Annual Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, August 10-14, 1997 , August 1997 , pp. 297 - 298
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Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 1997

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