A core team of MIT.nano technical staff has more than 400 combined years of MIT and technical experience. Their wisdom and camraderie have helped MIT.nano launch as MIT's central nanoscience and nanotechnology center, keeping the facilities and its equipment running and supporting the researchers and students who use MIT.nano laboratories.
Anna Osherov, assistant director for Characterization.nano at MIT's MIT.nano, helps researchers navigate state-of-the-art technologies such as electron microscopy and spectroscopy, as well as instruments that measure mechanical, electrical, magnetic, and topographic properties so they can apply the power of nanoscience and nanotechnology to new discoveries and inventions.
A growing gap in the transition of inventions from research labs to market is slowing the development and scale-up of new hardware technologies in the United States. This is particularly evident in complex microelectronics advancements, in which U.S.
MIT, RPI, and SUNY co-organized a Semiconductor Technology Translation and Hard-Tech Startups workshop to bring together academia, industry, government, and other areas to identify challenges and opportunities for translating ideas from academic labs to industry and into the market.