The Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences: Advancing Nanoscience through Strength in Research and User Support.

Sean Smith (CNMS, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

In this talk I will provide an overview of the Center for Nanophase Materials Science (CNMS) at ORNL, one of 5 DOE-funded nanoscience research centers (NSRCs). Within BES user facilities, the NSRCs play a special role with the mandate to drive their own internationally recognized science research programs as well as provide user support to the nanoscience community, with roughly half our effort devoted to each purpose. I will outline the three research themes comprising our current research agenda and some of the signature strengths underlying them.

I also take time to discuss some research of interest to me personally, starting with work carried out in my own group previously on simulation of peptide dendrimer interactions with short strand RNA and continuing at ORNL with simulation of charged dendrimer - water interactions for comparison against neutron scattering data.

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