Nano/Bio Interface Center

The Nano/Bio Interface Center is a Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at the University of Pennsylvania. It specializes in bionanotechnology, combining aspects of life sciences and engineering, with a particular focus in biomolecular optoelectronics and molecular motions, including developing new scanning probe microscopy techniques. It offers a master's degree in nanotechnology. The center was established in 2004 with a US$11.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation, and received an additional $11.9 million grant in 2009. By 2013, it had constructed a new facility, the Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology.

Award for Research Excellence in Nanotechnology

The Award for Research Excellence in Nanotechnology is given by the Nano/Bio Interface Center each year to an outstanding researcher in nanotechnology. The award is given each year at the center's NanoDay outreach event.

2005 awardee Horst Störmer
2006 awardee Steven M. Block
2007 awardee Charles M. Lieber
2007 awardee Christoph Gerber
2011 awardee Don Eigler
Year Recipient Institution Rationale
2005 Horst Störmer Columbia University 2D electron sheets in semiconductors
2006 Steven M. Block Stanford University Optical tweezer studies of biomolecules
2007 Charles M. Lieber Harvard University Synthesis, characterization, and assembly of nanomaterials
Christoph Gerber University of Basel Scanning probe microscopy
2008 Naomi J. Halas Rice University Nanoshells with tunable optical properties
2009 Harold Craighead Cornell University Nanofabrication
2010 Angela Belcher Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2011 Don Eigler IBM Amalden Research Center Low temperature scanning tunneling microscopes
2012 Toshio Ando Kanazawa University High-speed atomic force microscopy of protein molecules
2013 Joseph W. Lyding University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Scanning tunneling microscopy of charge density waves and silicon surfaces
2014 Charles Marcus University of Copenhagen Electromagnetic control of nanomaterials, fractional quantum Hall effect, and Majorana fermions
2015 Xiaowei Zhuang Harvard University Super-resolution imaging for the studies of biological systems
2016 Catherine J. Murphy University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Gold nanocrystals with tunable optical properties