Quadrennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (2025) Securing U.S. Global Leadership Through Renewed and Expanded Infrastructure (2025) / Chapter Skim
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Rather, they require both financial resources and government-wide coordination to overcome. One of the challenges facing the national nanotechnology infrastructure is a perception that nanotechnology is a mature field, giving the false impression that coordination and dedicated support are no longer needed.
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SOURCE: National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO) , 2024, "The National Nanotechnology Initiative Supplement to the President's 2024 Budget," https://www.nano.gov/sites/default/files/pub_resource/ NNI-FY24-Budget-Supplement.pdf, Table 3.
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PCA 3 supports the establishment and operation of user facilities and networks, acquisition of major instrumentation, and other activities that develop, support, or enhance the nation's physical, data, and cyber infrastructure for nanoscale science, engineering, and technology. It includes R&D pertaining to the tools needed to advance nanotechnology research and commercialization, including informatics tools and next-generation instrumentation for characterization, measurement, synthesis, and design of materials, structures, devices, and systems.
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) signifies that the results included terms that start with "nano," such as nano technology.
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Finding 2.2: The National Nanotechnology Coordination Office hosts many public engagement activities to bring together the nanotechnology community, share information, and carry out outreach to students. Finding 2.3: Concerning user facilities, the NSF-funded National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI)
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Conclusion 2.4: Coordination helps to minimize or avoid duplication of capabili ties and thereby to increase the breadth of capabilities and ability to meet the needs of various research communities. Recommendation 2.1: The National Nanotechnology Coordination Office should continue to annually convene key stakeholders in nanotechnology infrastructure to share best practices, coordinate agency investments, and ensure all facilities have a common connection.
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For instance, simple data such as where a potential user can find a particular tool or facility to access the infrastructure are not readily available. Recommendation 2.2: Within 2 years, the National Nanotechnology Coor dination Office should create and then maintain a facilities reporting and user metrics database for all nanotechnology infrastructure that is stream lined, standardized, and eventually automated.
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Within national laboratories, similar creativity is required to maintain the tool set. While support for equipment acquisition is critical to the performance of the nanotechnology infrastructure, less focus has been given to the amortization of equipment and maintenance of the aging infrastructure.
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Recommendation 2.3: Any assessment of maintaining the nanotechnology infrastructure should be informed by the depreciated cost and accumu lated devaluation of capital equipment, and this data should inform future infrastructure investments made by National Nanotechnology Initiative– supporting agencies. This is a priority recommendation.
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As with the equipment funds, these types of efforts tend to fall in between funding agencies if there is not sufficient coordination and prioritization of the needs at the facilities. This situation has been somewhat exacerbated as new requirements for education, workforce development, and diversification of users have been included in many new calls for nanotechnology infrastructure, although no new resources have been added for these activities.
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5 National Research Council, 2016, Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative, The National Academies Press, https://doi.org/10.17226/18271.
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