CNID (Center for Nanoscience Innovation for Defense)

CNID acts as a conduit through which industrial partners can recruit highly trained students in the areas of nanoscale science and engineering, and allows students to obtain contact with real world research and development in the private sector. The research at UCR is focused on the preparation of nanomaterials that will eventually be fabricated into nanodevices when the University Nanofabrication and Clean Room facilities are complete next year. The UCR effort includes the preparation and construction of devices based on multiporphyrins, carbon nanotubes and neutral radical conductors. UCR also has a project designed to study the interaction between carbon nanotubes and neurons - both of these species transport charge over conducting channels that are of submicron dimensions. In recognition of the importance of homeland defense, there is also a strong component of work on sensors that are expected to have defense applications. The five areas of CNID research that UCR focus on are: nanoscale electronic devices, spintronic devices - organic and inorganic, multiporphyrin molecular memories, neurons and nanotubes, and sensors.

Contact: Nancy Jahr, Bourns, College of Engineering (951) 827-2233-Funding Source: Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) and Defense MicroElectronics Activity (DMEA)