One of the largest university-based facilities - working at the intersection of biology and engineering.
Research Facilities
MNTL is one of the country's largest and most sophisticated university facilities for conducting photonics, microelectronics, biotechnology, and nanotechnology research. Our 15 class 100 and 1000 cleanrooms, 46 general purpose labs, and 2,500 square foot biosafety level-2 bionanotechnology complex contain all the tools researchers need to conduct their work.
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- Illinois receives $3 million in NIH funding to develop neural probe for monitoring brain chemistry
In an NIH-funded project, University of Illinois professors Bashir, Vlasov and Sweedler lead a multi-disciplinary team developing a probe to monitor brain chemistry.
- Creating better devices: The etch stops here
A new etching technique for creating nanoscale devices, which was developed by UI researchers, is more precise than ever before possible
- Novel quantum dots enhance cell imaging
A new type of probe uses quantum dots instead of fluorescent dyes to count and analyze cells. The cancer-related work is a collaboration of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Mayo Clinic.
- SENSELET provides sensory-driven IoT network for scientific instruments
A team of UI researchers is building a wireless and scalable sensory infrastructure that will help scientists better understand the conditions under which their experiments succeed or fail
- Director's Message Fall 2018
MNTL Director Cunningham Shares How Nick Holonyak Still Inspires Achievement
- Cunningham Leads Development of Star Trek-Inspired Smartphone Spectroscopy
Research Team Exploits Convergence of Smartphone Computing & Spectroscopy