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Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies

Helping you understand, create, and characterize nanomaterials

Meet CINT

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 Michael Pettes Yongqiang Wang Ryan Wixom	Jennifer Hollingsworth \| Thrust Leader Igal Brener \| Thrust Co-Leader Chun-Chieh Chang Hou-Tong Chen Ekaterina Dogopolova Han Htoon Sergei Ivanov Andrew Jones T. (Willie) Luk 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 Andy Mounce Wanyi Nie John Nogan Jianxin Zhu

CINT Technical Specialists

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

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 Jonathan Gigax Frank Del Rio Matt Schneider	Abul Azad Alex Cerjan Weng Chow Prashant Padmanabhan Andrei Piryatinski Nicholas Sirica	Bryan Kaehr Jennifer Martinez Susan Rempe Duncan Ryan	Edward Bielejec Ezra Bussmann Matt Eichenfield Tzu-Ming Lu Wei Pan Priscila Rosa Michael Titze

Distinguished Affiliates

In-Situ Characterization
and Nanomechanics

Nanophotonics and Optical
Nanomaterials

Soft, Biological, and
Composite Nanomaterials

Quantum Materials
Systems

CINT Postdoctoral Researchers

The Postdoctoral Research program offers the opportunity for appointees to perform research in a robust scientific R&D environment, present and publish research, advance knowledge in basic and applied nanoscience, and strengthen national scientific and technical capabilities.

Postdoctoral Researchers — CINT/LANL Mentors
Vigneshwaran Chandrasekaran — Han Htoon/Jen Hollingsworth Christopher Delaney — John Watt/Sergei Ivanov Yue Huang — Dmitry Yarotski Sundar Kunwar — Aiping Chen/Wanyi Nie Gang Quiang — Jinkyoung Yoo Miriam Hernandez-Romero — Dean Morales Jiaqi Hu — Andy Jones	Yixuan Huang — Jianxin Zhu/ Vivien Zapf Xiangzhi Li — Han Htoon/ Scott Crooker David Parobek — Sergei Ivanov/ Jen Hollingsworth Jacob Pettine — Hou-Tong Chen William Higgins — Kyungtae Kim	Soham Saha — Xuejing Wang — Jinkyoung Yoo Dongyue Xie — Nan Li/Saryu Fensin Di Zhang — Aiping Chen/Rod McCabe Huan Zhao — Han Htoon Tongjun Niu — Nan Li/ Jonathan Gigax

Postdoctoral Researchers — CINT/Sandia Mentors
Philip Taylor — Gary Grest/Mark Stevens Daniel Vigil — Amalie Frischknecht/Mark Stevens/Gary Grest Kimberly Bassett — Brad Boyce Luca Basso — Andy Mounce Cody Bezik — Amalie Frischknecht Ophelia Bolmin — Brad Boyce Nathan Brady — George Bachand Ryan DeMott — Khalid Hattar Manish Jain — Brad Boyce/Frank DelRio Saaketh Desai — Remi Dingreville	Kahlil Dixon — Alex Cerjan/Igal Brener Jiho Noh — Igal Brener Gajadhar Joshi — Andy Mounce Khalifa Azizur-Rahman — Andy Mounce Chongze Hu — Remi Dingreville Hyunseung Jung — Igal Brener Ryan Kahn — Frank Delrio/Remi Dingreville Nathan Madden — Khalid Hattar	Dongil Shin — Remi Dingreville Sueli Ramos — Tom Harris Alejandro Santos — Brad Boyce Ethan Scott — Tom Harris Ryan Schoell — Khalid Hattar Kathryn Small — Khalid Hattar Jacob Startt — Remi Dingreville Daniel Vizoso — Remi Dingreville Stephan Wong — Alex Cerjan

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.

Current UEC members

Prof. Siddhartha (Sid) Pathak
Users Assn. Chair
Iowa State University

Dr. Erika Vreeland
Sandia National Laboratories

Prof. Plamen Atanassov
University of California, Irvine

Prof. Tito Busani
University of New Mexico

Shalini Tripathi
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Dr. Steven Hayden
National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Prof. Don Lucca
Oklahoma State University

Alan Van Orden
Oklahoma State University

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.

CINT Operations Support and Administration

Core Facility

Carli Suazo
User Program Coordinator

Gateway Facility

Linda Chavez
User Program Coordinator

Core Facility

Kelly Esquibel
Administrative Assistant
Ana Lopez-Arvilla
Receptionist/User Training

Gateway Facility

Agnieszka Cruz
Professional Staff Assistant
Angela Martinez
Administrative Assistant