Nano-Synthesis

The focus in this section is on commercial* and university core facility** labs with a formal mandate to collaborate with regional users in the synthesis/manufacture of nano-structured materials and/or device components, as well as labs with special synthesis capabilities and/or manufacturing interests moving toward the nano-scale. Please suggest other appropriate additions, and corrections. Note: A list of nano-synthesis resources grouped according to the process used will be linked here.

• 3M Microelectronic Packaging - Columbia
• APMaterials* - Saint Louis
• e.g. Sodium flame & encapsulation of ceramic & metallic nanopowders
• Brewer Science - Rolla
• e.g. Integrated-circuit anti-reflective coatings for 157 nm lithography
• Central Missouri State University - Warrensburg
• McKay Research Group
• Organic crystal engineering and characterization of weak interactions in the solid state
• CrossLink Polymer* - Fenton
• e.g. Light-emitting polymers with ZnS/CdS nanoparticles
• Elisha Technologies* - Moberly
• e.g. Heterostructured electrolytic mineral coatings to prevent corrosion
• MEMC Electronic Materials* - O'Fallon
• e.g. Structured-epi wafers for gigascale integrated circuit device manufacture
• Mallinckrodt - Saint Louis
• e.g. Collodial contrast media for medical imaging
• Midwest Research Institute - Kansas City
• Missouri University - Columbia
• Gangopadhyay Research Group
• Micro-fluidic electromechanical device fabrication facility**
• Kattesh V. Katti
• Nano-gold for use in site-specific radio-pharmaceuticals
• Monsanto - Saint Louis
• e.g. New catalyst technology for the manufacture of glyphosate
• Saint Louis University - Saint Louis
• Solutia - Saint Louis
• e.g. Novel polymer coating strategies
• Stereotaxis - Saint Louis
• e.g. Magnetically-guided medical intervention
• Southwest Missouri State University - Springfield
• Device Fabrication Laboratory
• Ion implantation
• Mask alignment
• Plasma etching
• Spin coating
• Thin Film Growth Laboratory
• Molecular beam epitaxy
• Pulsed laser deposition
• Thermal evaporation and RF magetron sputtering
• Electron beam evaporation
• University of Missouri - Kansas City
• Kilway Research Group
• Selective synthesis of nanotubes
• Zhonghua Peng
• Light-harvesting dendritic macromolecules
• Self-assembled polymer networks
• University of Missouri - Rolla
• Chemical & Biomedical Engineering
• Nanomaterials for energy conversion e.g. 3nm Pt on carbon nanotubes
• Condensed Matter Physics Group
• Nano-metal cluster & necklace formation / sol gel processes
• Materials Research Center
• Ordered nano-structures by electro-deposition e.g. Cu2O/Au or Fe3O4/Si
• University of Missouri - Saint Louis
• Leopold Molecular Beam Epitaxy Lab
• Washington University - Saint Louis
• Aerosol and Air-Quality Research Laboratory
• Nano-structured iron-doped titania photocatalysts
• Buhro Group
• e.g. Solution-liquid-solid growth of III-IV nano-whiskers
• Center for Materials Innovation
• Hayes Group
• e.g. Synthesis of II-VI nanostructures
• Laboratory for Combustion and Energy Research
• Gas-phase combustion synthesis e.g. of ultrafine metal & ceramic powders
• Materials Physics Laboratory
• Quasicrystals and metallic glasses
• Shen "Complex Fluids" Lab
• e.g. Nanoporous films by dip coating into micellar solutions
• e.g. Soft lithography of microchannels in polydimethylsiloxane
• Wooley Group
• Shell-crosslinked nanoparticles
• Degradable and hyperbranched polymers
• Zoltek* - Saint Louis
• e.g. Carbon fibers for reinforced composites used in building

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Note: This page (http://newton.umsl.edu/~run/mona/synthesis.html) is in it's earliest stages of development. Suggestions for existing and new entries invited, as well as on better ways to structure this resource. Although there are many contributors, the person responsible for errors is P. Fraundorf. This site is hosted by the Department of Physics and Astronomy (and Center for Molecular Electronics) at UM-StLouis.