How can we get closer to the world of atoms and molecules? How does energy transform? How do materials’ properties emerge?
Scientists are uncovering the secrets of energy and matter at the scale of atoms, molecules and nanostructures. They are discovering how to precisely control these and their quantum properties to create new types of materials, energy pathways, miniature machines and perhaps even synthetic life.
Kavli Institute for NanoScience Discovery
Nanoscience
University of Oxford
Kavli Nanoscience Institute
Nanoscience
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Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft
Nanoscience
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute
Nanoscience
University of California, Berkeley
Featured News
Explore the latest news, events, and discoveries from the field of nanoscience.
See All NewsDNA Traces Disease Back to Its Origin
Nanoscience Profile
Billions of DNA fragments are circulating in our bloodstream. Now, researchers can use them to trace a disease back to its source.
Apr 16, 2021
A Marriage of Opposites
Nanoscience Research Highlights
A material that has seemingly impossible properties and other news from the Kavli Institutes in Nanoscience
Mar 04, 2021
The Elements of Discovery
Nanoscience Profile
Oxford’s new Kavli Institute will create a welcoming culture to support research in nanoscience
Mar 03, 2021
The Language of the Cell
Nanoscience Profile
mRNA vaccines are only the beginning for bionanoscience
Feb 18, 2021
Sound Gives Electrons a New Spin
Nanoscience Profile
Gregory David Fuchs, member of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, studies spin physics
Feb 13, 2021
Magic Angles and Chaos Cameras
Nanoscience Research Highlights
Potentially game-changing developments in nanoscience
Feb 10, 2021
Unraveling the Quantum Mysteries of Photosynthesis
Nanoscience Profile
Graham Fleming searches for answers in one of nature's "messiest" systems
Dec 15, 2020
Liquid Fuels from Sunlight
Nanoscience Profile
Led by Caltech’s Harry Atwater, the Liquid Sunlight Alliance hopes to turn sunlight into gasoline and other fuels
Dec 09, 2020
Measuring Up
Nanoscience Research Highlights
It's never an easy task to figure out—and measure—what you have done at the nanoscale
Dec 05, 2020
A unique combination of structural biology, biochemistry, pathology, chemistry, physics, physiology and engineering
Dec 03, 2020
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The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience is awarded for outstanding achievement in the science and application of the unique physical, chemical and biological properties of atomic, molecular, macromolecular, and cellular structures and systems that are manifest in the nanometer scale, including molecular self-assembly, nanomaterials, nanoscale instrumentation, nanobiotechnology, macromolecular synthesis, molecular mechanics and related topics.
Kavli Prize LaureatesNanoscience deals with the smallest building blocks in nature and will enable us to make new materials and tools, leading an ever-accelerating journey of technological progress.
- Fred Kavli