Current nanoscience and nanoengineering at the

Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering

A M HERMANN, R S SINGH and V P SINGH

Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering,

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0046, USA

E-mail: allen.hermann@engr.uky.edu; Allen.Hermann@Colorado.edu

Abstract. The Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CeNSE) at the University

of Kentucky is a multidisciplinary group of faculty, students, and staff, with a shared

vision and cutting-edge research facilities to study and develop materials and devices at the nanoscale.

Current research projects at CeNSE span a number of diverse nanoscience thrusts in bio-

engineering and medicine (nanosensors and nanoelectrodes, nanoparticle-based drug

delivery), electronics (nanolithography, molecular electronics, nanotube FETs),

nanotemplates for electronics and gas sensors (functionalization of carbon nanotubes,

aligned carbon nanotube structures for gate-keeping, e-beam lithography with nanoscale

precision), and nano--optoelectronics (nanoscale photonics for laser communications,

quantum confinement in photovoltaic devices, and nanostructured displays).

This paper provides glimpses of this research and future directions.

Keywords. Nanotechnology; nanoscience; nanoengineering; nanomedicine;

Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering; Kentucky.

PACS Nos 81.07.-b; 85.35.-p; 85.35.-Kt; 81.07.Dc