News
Articles from “NanoWire” – the RAIN newsletter, articles about the latest professional development opportunities being offered, and other interesting articles about the world of nano.
New Multi-user Material Characterization Facility Opens at University of Colorado, Boulder
The Material Characterization Facility – operated within Colorado Shared Instrumentation in Nanofabrication and Characterization (COSINC) service center, College and Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado, Boulder – recently relocated to its...
Remote Web-Based Science Labs
For those of us in the RAIN network, we know that access to our sophisticated instrumentation can be a strong outreach tool to engage students in the science classrooms. We often wonder how other disciplines use web-based access to instrumentation. Enter NANSLO, an...
University of Texas at San Antonio
RAIN is pleased to welcome the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). The Kleberg Advanced Microscopy Center (KAMC) is located on the University of Texas at San Antonio. The KAMC was created with state-of-the-art instrumentation and expertise to develop a core...
It DOES RAIN in Southern California
While it has become exceedingly difficult to find water in Southern California due to extreme drought conditions, there has been an excess of RAIN at Pasadena City College (PCC). Using our Phenom ProX Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) with Energy-Dispersive X-ray...
RAIN Goes International with Demo in Turkey
Our colleague, Ozgur Cakmak, recently made a special virtual visit to his alma mater in Turkey. Ozgur has been continuing his post-doctoral studies at Penn State and recently introduced the Electron Microscope to high school students (grades 9-11) from his home town....