# Presentation: 919089

## Nanoscale Science Research Centers

_**Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences**_
**	****A highly collaborative program in partnership with Universities, Government Laboratories and the Private Sector**

**	****Synthesis:  The Role of Materials in Discovery**

## Advanced Materials: An Intellectual & Technological Frontier

**Theory of superconductivity (1972)**
**Structure of magnetic and disordered systems (1977)**
**Quantum Hall effects (1985, 1998)**
**Development of the STM (1986)**
**High Tc superconductivity (1987)**
**Liquid crystals and polymers (1991)**
**Neutron scattering (1994)**
**Fullerenes (1996)**
**Density functional theory (1998)**
**Integrated circuit (2000)**
**Conducting polymers (2000)**

**Giant magnetoresistance**

## Advanced Materials: An Intellectual & Technological Frontier

**A CNMS Discovery**

**Organic Superconductors**

## CNMS Philosophy: Whoever controls the materials controls the science and the technology

**CNMS Philosophy: Whoever controls the materials controls the science and the technology**

## CNMS Philosophy: Whoever controls the materials controls the science and the technology

**CNMS Philosophy: Whoever controls the materials controls the science and the technology**

## Technologically Driven Processing

**Technologically Driven Processing**

**CNMS Philosophy: Whoever controls the materials controls the science and the technology**

## Science DrivenNanofabrication

**Science Driven****Nanofabrication**

**CNMS Philosophy: Whoever controls the materials controls the science and the technology**

## Nanophase Materials Sciences Workshop (Oct. 24-26)

**Scientific challenges to be addressed**
- Synthesis and controlled assembly of magnetic nanostructures.
- Understanding magnetism in dimensionally confined systems
- Control and exploitation of spin and spin-currents
- Entanglement and decoherence
- First principles based many-body theory for  correlated electron systems (KKR + DMFT/DCA)

_**Magnetism in Nanostructured Materials**_

**Technological opportunities to be addressed**
- Nano-bit storage
- Nanostructured permanent magnets
- Spintronic devices
- Magnetic random access memory
- Biological and chemical sensors with nano-magnetic components
- Quantum computing

## Research Focus Area:Magnetism in Nanostructured Materials

**Research Focus Area:****Magnetism in Nanostructured Materials**

**CNMS**

## Magnetism in Nanostructured Materials

**Magnetic Nanowires**
**AFM image of self-assembled magnetic iron nanowires on sodium chloride**

- Iron Nanowires

- Iron Quantum Dots

## Nanophase Materials Sciences Workshop (Oct. 24-26)

**Scientific challenges to be addressed**
- Synthesis and controlled assembly of magnetic nanostructures.
- Understanding magnetism in dimensionally confined systems
- Control and exploitation of spin and spin-currents
- Entanglement and decoherence
- First principles based many-body theory for  correlated electron systems (KKR + DMFT/DCA)
**Technological opportunities to be addressed**
- Nano-bit storage
- Nanostructured permanent magnets
- Spintronic devices
- Magnetic random access memory
- Biological and chemical sensors with nano-magnetic components
- Quantum computing

_**Champions**_
**University/Other External**
- Bill Butler (MINT-Univ. of Alabama)
- Ward Plummer (Univ. of Tennessee)
- R. Sellmyer (Univ. of Nebraska)
- Stephan von Molnar (MARTEC, FSU)
- Sankar das Sarma (Univ. of Maryland) and/or Allan MacDonald (Univ. of Texas)
**ORNL **
- Experiment (synthesis / characterization):
- Jian Shen (SSD)
- Jim Thompson (SSD)
- Theory and modeling:
- Thomas Schulthess (CSMD)
- Malcolm Stocks (M&C)
- Neutron experiements and SNS/HIFR contacts:
- Lee Robertson (HIFR)
- Frank Klose (SNS)

_**Magnetism in Nanostructured Materials**_