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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- Arend van der Zande earns NSF CAREER Award to explore mechanics of 2D material heterostructures
National Science Foundation recognizes van der Zande with CAREER Award
- Narayana Aluru among newest members of AAAS
AAAS elects Aluru as 2018 Fellow, to be honored at 2019 annual meeting
- Two MNTL researchers, Nie and Van der Zande, rank among most influential in world
Shuming Nie and Arend Van der Zande included among 11 UI researchers ranked "most influential" by Clarivate Analytics
- Illinois faculty, former students honor Nick Holonyak legacy in celebration of his birthday
Celebration held at Illinois to honor Nick Holonyak Jr for his legacy of innovation and 90th birthday
- 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