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SUNY Scientists Create New Materials for Future Applications

SUNY researchers are developing exotic materials with specific electrical, optical, and magnetic properties for the demanding technologies of tomorrow. Faculty research in this vitally important discipline is leading to remarkable improvements in fields ranging from health care and homeland security to agriculture, consumer products and manufacturing.

Center for Advanced Technology in Nanomaterials and Nanoelectronics (CATN2)
The Center for Advanced Technology in Nanomaterials and Nanoelectronics (CATN2) provides New York's nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, telecommunications, defense, and nanobiotechnology industry clusters with critical research and development, business assistance, workforce training, and economic outreach. A strategic partnership between SUNY, other premier research universities and industry, CATN2 leverages the specialist knowledge of each consortium member nanotechnology research, Albany NanoTech and the main hub of CATN2; telecom/wireless devices, Stony Brook University; nanosystems packaging, Binghamton University; solid state optical devices, Alfred State College; and biomedical devices/sensors, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

The Small Scale Systems Packaging Center at Binghamton University
New micro- and nanoscale concepts depend on packaging for their mechanical supports and interconnections. Research conducted at the Small Scale Systems Packaging Center will maximize and ramp up the value of emerging technologies and speed life-enhancing new products to the marketplace.

The Center for Thermal Spray Research (CTSR) at Stony Brook University
Thermal spray coatings have emerged as an innovative and unique means for processing and synthesizing high performance materials. A designated U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, CTSR has developed a new thermal spray based method that permits the manufacture of miniaturized and rugged electronic devices on any surface.

The Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics at the University at Buffalo
By harnessing the power of light, investigators at the institute use a broadly multidisciplinary approach to solve research challenges critical to science and industry. The institute is developing versatile new nanomedical devices and therapies. It leads a national, multi-institution consortium to develop new materials in molecular electronics, photonics and opto-electronics to form the basis of a new generation of solar-powered information technology systems and, with NYSTAR support, is developing photonic materials for next-generation information technology systems.

Paras Prasad, Ph.D., is executive director of the University at Buffalo's Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics, which is home to the National Science Foundation's only graduate-level multidisciplinary program in biophotonics.

The Center for Thermal Spray Research at Stony Brook University is one of 29 designated National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers in the US specializing in various aspects of materials physics, chemistry and engineering.