By Center for Functional Nanomaterials Brookhaven
The Materials Synthesis and Characterization Facility includes laboratories for producing nanostructured materials and characterizing their basic structural, chemical and optical properties. The facility staff has significant experience in solution-phase chemistry of nanocrystal/nanowire materials, inorganic synthesis by chemical vapor deposition, physical vapor deposition, and atomic layer deposition. The staff includes experts in techniques of nanoscale fabrication by self-assembly. The facility also supports infrastructure and expertise in solution-based processing of organic thin films, including tools for spin-casting, thermal processing, and UV/ozone treatment. Analytical tools include a broad range of capabilities for structural, electrochemical, spectroscopic and thermal characterization of materials. - Synthesis of nanostructures by chemical vapor deposition and solution-based methods Solution-based synthesis of a variety of soft, biological, hybrid, and inorganic nano-materials and functionalization routes for surfaces and nano-objects - Self-assembly methods for polymers - Solution-based processing of organic thin films by spin-casting and dip coating - Preparation of DNA- and protein-based nanostructures Gel-based DNA purification, conventional and real-time PCR for DNA amplification - Structural and functional probing of nanostructures using x-ray scattering, optical, and scanning probes methods - Electrical characterization under various temperature, magnetic field, and illumination conditions
