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Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies

Helping you understand, create, and characterize nanomaterials

One scientific community focused on nanoscience integration

CINT is home to a vibrant community of scientists, technical specialists, and affiliates.

Our Mission

CINT's distinguishing characteristic is our emphasis on exploring the pathways leading from scientific discovery to the integration of nanostructures into the micro and macro worlds. These pathways involve experimental and theoretical exploration of behavior, development of a wide variety of synthesis and processing approaches, and an understanding of new performance regimes, testing design, and integration of nanoscale materials and structures. Integration is key to exploitation of nanomaterials and the scientific integration challenges are at the heart of CINT’s mission.

Our Outreach

Our outreach activities focus on collaborative opportunities to explore the integration of new nanoscale materials into novel architectures and microsystems. Through our user program, conferences, workshops, and speaking engagements, CINT brings together university faculty, students, other national laboratory scientists, and industrial researchers in pursuit of nanoscience discovery.

Our Vision

Advancing the scientific understanding underlying nanoscale integration through the assembly of diverse materials across multiple length scales, with the ultimate goal of designing and achieving new material properties and functionalities. You can read more about our vision in our strategic plan, CINT 2026 (pdf).

Our Future

We look forward to continuing the pursuit of innovative, leading-edge nanotechnology integration through our close partnerships with DOE nanoscience centers, universities, and industrial partners as we explore relationships between nanoscale science and integrated functionality. Of course, next-level science doesn't happen without brilliant, dedicated, diverse staff and CINT actively seeks out those researchers ready to tackle tomorrow's global challenges through nanoscience.

Leadership

Jeffrey Nelson, CINT Director

Ryan Wixom, Sandia Department Manager

Brian Swartzentruber, Sandia Department Manager

Heather Brown, User Program Manager

Adam Rondinone, CINT Co-Director

Michael Pettes, MPA-CINT Deputy Group Leader

Ricardo Marti-Arbona, MPA-CINT Deputy Group Leader

Stacy Baker, Communications and Outreach Coordinator

CINT Scientists

Our staff is organized by scientific thrust. CINT scientists work with users and also lead original research in nanomaterials integration. You can find out more about our scientists on their profiles pages.

In-Situ Characterization
and Nanomechanics

Nanophotonics and Optical
Nanomaterials

Soft, Biological, and Composite Nanomaterials

Quantum Materials
Systems

Nan Li | Thrust Leader
Michael Pettes | Thrust Co-Leader

Brad Boyce
Rémi Dingreville
Stephen House
Yongqiang Wang
Ryan Wixom

Jennifer Hollingsworth | Thrust Leader
Igal Brener | Thrust Co-Leader

Alex Cerjan
Chun-Chieh Chang
Hou-Tong Chen
Ekaterina Dogopolova
Han Htoon
Sergei Ivanov
Andrew Jones
Sergei Tretiak

Dale Huber | Thrust Leader
John Watt | Thrust Co-Leader

George Bachand
Amalie Frischknecht
Gary Grest
Kyungtae Kim
Mihee Kim
Dean Morales
Mark Stevens
Jim Werner

Michael P. Lilly | Thrust Leader
Jinkyoung Yoo | Thrust Co-Leader

Sadvikas Addamane
Aiping Chen
Tom Harris
Shizeng Lin
Tzu-Ming Lu
Andy Mounce
John Nogan
Jian-Xin Zhu

CINT Technical Specialists

As technical subject matter experts and instrument operators, our technical specialists work with users and staff to conduct research.

In-Situ Characterization and Nanomechanics	Nanophotonics and Optical Nanomaterials	Soft, Biological, and Composite Nanomaterials	Quantum Materials Systems
Kevin Garber Doug Pete Chris Sheehan Darrick Williams	Eric Bowes	Ben Klitsner Monica Manginell Winson Kuo	Terry Hargett Tony James Willard Ross Denise Webb Michael DeLaGarza

CINT Affiliate Scientists

These scientists contribute their expertise and capabilities to the CINT community via collaborations with CINT scientists and users.

Distinguished Affiliates	In-Situ Characterization and Nanomechanics	Nanophotonics and Optical Nanomaterials	Soft, Biological, and Composite Nanomaterials	Quantum Materials Systems
Barry Carter (UConn) Rajiv Kalia (USC) Antoinette Taylor (LANL)	Ben Derby Dan Hooks Paul Kotula Ping Lu Matt Schneider	Abul Azad Weng Chow Chloe Doiron Prasad Iyer Prashant Padmanabhan Andrei Piryatinski Nicholas Sirica	Bryan Kaehr Jennifer Martinez Susan Rempe Duncan Ryan	Edward Bielejec Ezra Bussmann Matt Eichenfield Wei Pan Priscila Rosa Michael Titze

CINT Users and Executive Committee

Membership in the CINT Users Association (CINT-UA) is open to all those who are named as an investigator or collaborator on an approved CINT User Proposal in the current calendar year or in either of the two preceding calendar years.

The User Executive Committee (UEC) provides a voice for the CINT user community and an organized framework for communicating with CINT management and other DOE Nanoscale Science Research Centers. The UEC helps organize the CINT Annual Meeting and advises the CINT management team on matters of concern to Users. The UEC is led by a Chair and Vice-Chair who are elected from within the UEC according to the Bylaws.

CINT-UA Charter
You can download and review the CINT-UA Charter/Bylaws. Comments or questions regarding the Charter/Bylaws may be directed to the UEC Chair or to the CINT User Program Manager.