Helping you understand, create, and characterize nanomaterials
Exploring the path from scientific discovery to the integration of nanostructures into the micro and macro worlds
A U.S. DOE Nanoscale Science Research Center & User Facility
CINT provides open access to highly specialized instrumentation and expertise to a global community of researchers from universities, national laboratories, and industry.
Research Priorities include Microelectronics, Quantum Information Science, Biopreparedness, AI/Machine Learning, Critical Materials, and Energy Technology.
The 2026 Spring Call for Proposals is open March 1–30, 2026.
CINT offers no-cost access to exceptional scientific expertise and world-class capabilities at two National Laboratories and multiple co-located facilities including:
Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE),
National High Magnetics Field Laboratory (NHMFL)
Microsystems Engineering, Science and Applications (MESA)
LANL Ion Beam Materials Laboratory
SNL Ion Beam Laboratory
CINT expertise and capabilities are available in these scientific thrust areas: In-Situ Characterization and Nano-Mechanics; Nanophotonics and Optical Nanomaterials; Soft, Biological and Composite Nanomaterials; Quantum Materials Systems. The CINT User Community is an incredibly diverse and extensive global scientific community dedicated to understanding, characterizing, synthesizing, fabricating, and scaling nanostructured materials in the microscopic and macroscopic worlds. For more info on submitting a proposal, please visit cint.lanl.gov/user-resources/
Ready to submit your proposal? Please visit our user portal.
Discover CINT Science
The latest CINT Science —
Lithographic Crystallinity Regulation in Additive Fabrication of Thermoplastics (CRAFT)
Dynamically Reconfigurable Topological Routing in Nonlinear Photonic Systems
Nonlocal Metasurfaces with Lithographically Defined Vertical Symmetry Breaking
Covalent Control of Excitonic Interactions in Perylenediimide Trimers: A Computational Study
FACILITIES AND CAPABILITIES
Welcome to state-of-the-art facilities, equipment, and world class scientific expertise.
FACILITIES
The CINT user community can access research capabilities at the Core Facility in Albuquerque, NM and the Gateway Facility in Los Alamos, NM, as well as co-located facilities nearby.
CAPABILITIES
CINT offers capabilities in Synthesis and Fabrication, Characterization, and Theory and Simulation, in addition to our signature Discovery Platforms.
