National Institute for Nanotechnology

The National Research Council of Canada Nanotechnology Research Centre (formerly National Institute for Nanotechnology)[citation needed] is a research institution located on the University of Alberta main campus, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

It is administered as an institute of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), and governed by a board of trustees nominated by the partners.

In June 2006, the institute moved into its present 20,000 m2 (220,000 sq ft) facility, designed to be one of the world's largest buildings for nanotechnological research.

[1] There are at most two or three other facilities worldwide matching the new building in scale and capacity.

The Nanotechnology Research Centre plans to focus on the following areas of research: NanoBiology NanoElectronics Next-generation Microscopy A new approach to nanosensors, revolutionizing the concept, was published in Science magazine in 2018.