From the Director

Welcome to the Birck Nanotechnology Center website! The BNC leverages advances in nanoscale science and engineering to create innovative nanotechnologies addressing societal challenges and opportunities in computing, communications, the environment, security, energy independence, and health. In turn, the BNC exploits the accelerating progress in nanotechnology utilizing the most advanced nanoscale instrumentation to pursue answers to fundamental questions in the life and physical sciences. The interplay between these two complementary arcs of inquiry fosters a stimulating interdisciplinary environment for discovery that will engage us well into the 21st century. To learn more, please follow the links below.

Timothy D. Sands
Director, Birck Nanotechnology Center
January 2007

What is Nanotechnology?

The BNC Community

The BNC Facilities

BNC Research Strengths

Educational Opportunities in Nano

The BNC and Entrepreneurship

Access to BNC Facilities

Careers in Nanotechnology

VISIT
the Center or Discovery Park

Please click here to fill out a Discovery Park visit request form and send to dpengage@purdue.edu, or call 765-494-3662

Contact the Center

1205 W State Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057
765-494-7053

nano@purdue.edu