The Richard E. Smalley Institute
for Nanoscale Science and Technology at Rice University
is a university-funded organization devoted to enhancing the present
initiatives and facilitating the future successes of science and technology at
the nanometer scale. The Institute actively supports Rice University’s
nanoscale science and technology interests by providing experienced and
knowledgeable leadership, a solid administrative framework, world-class
infrastructure, superior educational initiatives, and productive community,
industry, and government relations. In
order to effectively execute our objectives in a variety of scientific and
societal arenas, the Smalley Institute is comprised of several centers and components
and is affiliated with various organizations with unique objectives.
Centers and
Components
Center for Biological and Environmental
Nanotechnology (CBEN)
CBEN promotes the
discovery and development nanomaterials that enable new medical and
environmental technologies.
Additionally, CBEN educates teachers, students, and citizens about
nanotechnology’s impact on medicine and the environment through a variety of
initiatives.
HiPco Laboratory
HiPco, invented by the Smalley research group in the
1990s, produces about a gram per hour of the world’s finest SWNT material –
enough for all Rice researchers and their funded collaborators.
International Council on Nanotechnology
(ICON)
ICON, a division of CBEN, engages industry,
academics, government officials, and representatives of environmental
organizations in a collective effort to assess, communicate, and reduce any
environmental and health risks associated with nanotechnology.
Nano Carbon Center (nC2)
nC2, formerly Carbon Nanotechnology
Laboratory (CNL), provides a nucleus of
ideas, talent, and expertise that feeds many of Rice University’s top carbon
nanotechnology research groups.
Additionally, nC2 aims to enhance the global visibility of
carbon nanotechnology research and to foster the growing carbon nanotechnology
community at Rice University.
Shared
Equipment Authority (SEA)
The SEA provides
campus-wide oversight of shared equipment planning and administration, raises
federal and private funds for shared equipment acquisition and maintenance, and
revises institutional policy on cost centers to more efficient management
shared research equipment.
Affiliated
Organizations
Advanced Energy Consortium (AEC)
AEC facilitates pre-competitive research in micro-
and nanotechnology materials and sensors that have the potential to create a
positive and disruptive change in the recovery of petroleum and gas from new
and existing reservoirs.
Alliance for NanoHealth (ANH)
ANH bridges the disciplines of medicine, biology,
materials science, computer technology, and public policy to develop
nanotechnology-based solutions to unresolved problems in medicine.
COnsortium for NanomaTerials for Aerospace
Commerce and Technology (CONTACT)
CONTACT endeavors to
make the US and Texas unequalled in producing competitive products emerging
from nanoscience in aerospace and commerce by fostering nanotechnology-based
education and research and through partnerships with the US Air Force Research
Laboratory, the University of Houston, and institutions within the University
of Texas system. The Strategic
Partnership for Research in Nanotechnology (SPRING) was the precursor to
CONTACT.
Houston
Advanced Research Center (HARC)
HARC strives to improve human and ecosystem
well-being through the application of sustainable science and principles of
sustainable science. HARC is a conduit
from basic research to action that fosters the implementation of policies and
technologies based on rigorous principles of social science, natural science,
and engineering.
LAboratory for NanoPhotonics (LANP)
LANP advances the
field of Nanophotonics by researching breakthroughs and advances in
nanophotonics, providing collaborative opportunities, training graduates
students utilizing the first nanophotonics graduate degree program in the US,
and offering unique undergraduate research experiences.
Lockheed Martin Advanced Nanotechnology
Center of Excellence at Rice University (LANCER)
LANCER offers a unique
nanotechnology research program to explore new technologies for materials,
electronics, energy, security, and defense combining Rice University’s expertise
in carbon nanotechnology, photonics, plasmonics and other nanoscience
disciplines to address a broad range of potential nanotechnology applications.
Nanomaterials Application Center at Texas
State University in San Marcos (NAC)
NAS coordinates, facilitates, and participates in
nanoscience and nanoengineering applications and expedites commercialization of
inventions.
Texas
Alliance for Nanotechnology (TxAN)
TxAN aims to make Texas a leading world center of
nanotechnology research, business development, and employment.
In addition to these centers, components,
and affiliates, the Smalley Institute collaborates with several institutes,
centers, and initiatives at Rice University, in Houston, around Texas, and
across the US.
Rice University
Baker Institute for Public Policy
Environmental
and Energy Institute
NanoJapan
Rice Alliance for
Technology and Entrepreneurship
Rice Quantum Institute
Rice Space Institute
Texas Nanotechnology Initiative
TX-UK
Collaboration
Houston
BioHouston
The Children’s Museum of Houston
Greater Houston Partnership
Gulf Coast Consortium
The Houston Health Museum
The Houston Museum of Natural Science
Houston Technology Center
IonWerks, Inc.
MIT Forum of Houston
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
nanoTox, Inc.
Smart Imaging Technologies, Inc.
University of
Houston Center for Materials
Chemistry
Texas
The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science
of Texas (TAMEST)
Advanced Materials Research Center in Austin,
a subsidiary of Sematech Inc.
NanoFab, The
Nanotechnology Research And Teaching Facility at UT Arlington
NanoTech Institute at University
of Texas at Dallas
nanoTX ‘08
Texas
Emerging Technology Fund
Around US
American Chemical Society
Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE)
Nano Science and Technology Institute
National Nanotechnology Initiative
US Air Force Research Laboratory