This project is a jointly funded collaboration between the US-NSF -and the European Community.

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The project research team is comprised of 7 teams from US academic, corporate, and government research institutions and 5 teams from EU academic and research instituitions. The goal of this project is to cooperatively develop understanding of the material behavior of thin layers at interfaces and to desseminate our knowledge for industrial research and development and to the global educational infrastructure.

• Very Short Description
  In a nutshell, these thin layers exhibit properties and behavior (such as their collective atomic stucture, their mechanical properties, and their interaction with light) that are not scientifically understood or characterized. These films exist in many technical devices and therefore determine their behavior and reliability. In fact, it may be possible to tailor their properties to get precise and predictable material behavior.
• Short Description
  Nanometer Scale Induced Structure Between Amorphous Layers and Crystalline Materials ) PIs from MIT, University of Missouri, Kansas City; Rutgers University; the University of Pennsylvania, LBNL, Dupont, Oxford University, the University of Karlsruhe, MPI Stuttgart, and CEA Saclay have formed a cooperative research team. Level of NSF funding: $1,703,818 over three years among the U.S. universities; the EU is providing 1,823,950 euro to the European researchers. This project will investigate the extraordinary properties of stable intergranular films. Anticipated benefits towards the foundation for the understanding and subsequent engineering of intergranular and surficial thin films are to be achieved with a collective approach of experimentation, theory and modeling, and subsequent experimental verification on selected specific material subsystems (silicate and titanate based systems) that may be extrapolated to general systems in which analogous films have been observed. The associated research groups from Europe and the US span the experimental and computational length and time scales that will be required for a successful complete understanding.
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• Original Proposal link
• Description of Research Team and Interactions, Research Facilities link
• Description of Cooperative Research Subgroups link
• Reports from Meetings (under construction)
• List of publications generated by this NSF/EU cooperative project. (link)
• Collection of research results obtained and being prepared for publication (under construction)
• List of Employment Opportunities associated with this project: link
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• March 27-28, 2003 Meeting at MIT
• March 18-19, 2004 NANOAM Meeting at MIT
• October 4-7, 2004 NANOAM Meeting in Paris Final Schedule
  October 4-7, 2004 NANOAM Meeting in Paris List of Posters
• Directions and locations for Paris meetings