Network for Computational Nanotechnology Nanohub.Org

NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Grantees Conference, Dec 3-5, 2008 NSF Award EEC-0634750

Network for Computational Nanotechnology – nanoHUB.org

NSF Award EEC-0634750 PI: Mark S. Lundstrom, Director George B. Adams III, Deputy Director Gerhard Klimeck, Associate Director for Technology Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

The Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) is an NSF infrastructure and research network established in September 2002 to support the National Nanotechnology Initiative. NCN operates nanoHUB.org, a cyber-resource for nanotechnology theory, modeling and simulation. Our vision is to grow and support a diverse nanotechnology discovery and learning community via shared research and educational resources.

We encourage all NSF-funded nanotechnology research projects to make the most of nanoHUB.org as a dissemination vehicle.

85,000 people used nanoHUB.org in the past 12 months. This large audience means content contributors realizing impressive returns. Two examples are Prof. Supriyo Datta, Purdue University and Prof. Dragica Vasileska, Arizona State University. See http://www.nanohub.org/com_usage/?task=contributors

Datta has published his graduate-level Nanoelectronics lectures on nanoHUB.org and to date they have been viewed or downloaded over 130,000 times. Such massive influence on graduate education lead to his being awarded the 2008 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award.

Vasileska published her nanoelectronics simulation tool SCHRED on nanoHUB.org. As she continues to use SCHRED, and has published nine papers of her group’s work based on it, over 1300 other nanoHUB users have run 32,500 SCHRED simulations leading to over 70 papers in the research literature, all citing Vasileska.

Datta’s and Vasileska’s experiences illustrate the value of placing quality content online before a very large, active academic community of users. The usage data reported here, and much more, is available for any content hosted on nanoHUB.org. As an NSF-funded effort ourselves, we appreciate the value of such data for understanding your outreach success and documenting your impact.

Publishing of seminars, videos, and simulation tools on nanoHUB.org is about as difficult as posting a video on YouTube. NCN staff are ready to assist you. There is no charge to upload content or to host it. Sign up for a free account at nanoHUB.org and get started.