Scientific Directors Ronald Breslow and Horst Stormer and Managing Director James Yardley will lead the NSF-sponsored NSEC team on establishing the foundation for new paradigms for information processing. The research team will address many basic questions about electronic transport in molecular nanostructures by developing a fundamental understanding of their unique charge transport phenomena. Drawing heavily upon Columbia's excellence in chemical synthesis and upon fundamental nanoscale concepts in electron physics through innovative collaborative research between Columbia, Bell Laboratories and IBM Research.

This center is supported primarily by the National Science Foundation.
For more information, please contact:
Professor James Yardley, Managing Director
jy307@columbia.edu
NSEC Phone: 212.854.3839
http://www.cise.columbia.edu/nsec/

Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC)
Center for Nanostructured Materials
http://www.cise.columbia.edu/mrsec

Directed by Professor Irving Herman, our MRSEC is an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Columbia University, City College of New York (CCNY), and prominent industrial laboratories that work together on research and education projects. Professor Louis Brus leads an interdisciplinary research group to investigate novel ways of synthesizing nanoparticles - particularly metal oxide nanocrystals, assembling them into structured thin films, and investigating the distinctive properties of these novel materials. The MRSEC team operates shared experimental facilities to allow MRSEC members and other researchers to use critical analytical instrumentation that would be cost prohibitive for any individual research group. The MRSEC also operates an extensive education outreach effort, which includes visits to New York City high schools.

This center is supported primarily by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Award Number DMR-0213574.
For more information, please contact:
Professor Irving Herman, Director
iph1@columbia.edu
MRSEC Phone: 212.854.4950
http://www.cise.columbia.edu/mrsec

Environmental Molecular Science Institute (EMSI)
Chemical Sources and Sinks at Liquid Solid Interfaces
http://research.radlab.columbia.edu/emsi/

Professor George Flynn leads a team of earth scientists and chemists to study how pollutants move through soil and to probe nanoscale reactions between soil and organic pollutants. The program actively utilizes facilities and staff at DOE's Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The EMSI team investigates how iron oxide, a very reactive and major constituent of soil, reacts with contaminants in water. Iron oxide comes in many forms. EMSI researchers are probing the complexity of these surface reactions with the goal of designing a filtration material to capture the contaminants and ultimately purify the water flowing through the ground.

This center is supported jointly by the NSF and U.S. Department of Energy under Award Number 9810367.
For more information, please contact:
Professor George Flynn, Director
flynn@chem.columbia.edu
EMSI Phone: 212.854.XXXX
http://research.radlab.columbia.edu/emsi/