{"id":7,"date":"2013-12-30T11:50:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T16:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nano\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2025-09-27T02:00:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:00:04","slug":"homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nano\/","title":{"rendered":"RIN2"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_123\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1758\/aot-39-emulsion-03.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[7]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-123 \" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1758\/aot-39-emulsion-03-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"aot 39 emulsion 03\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nano\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1758\/aot-39-emulsion-03-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nano\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1758\/aot-39-emulsion-03-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nano\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1758\/aot-39-emulsion-03-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nano\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1758\/aot-39-emulsion-03-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nano\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1758\/aot-39-emulsion-03.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cryogenic field emission scanning electron microscopy image of an oil droplet dispersed in synthetic seawater using surfactants and silica nanoparticles (Bothun Lab).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Rhode Island Consortium of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (RIN2) is a multi-user materials characterization facility that enables cutting-edge academic and industrial research and education through access to advanced material characterization techniques. Specific objectives of RIN2 are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Offer advanced material characterization to users at URI, other academic institutions, non-profits and industries: scanning and transmission electron microscopy, X-ray microscopy, X-ray diffraction, confocal Raman microscopy, high throughput confocal fluorescence microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.<\/li>\n<li>Provide theoretical and hands-on training on these tools to the next generation of researchers and technologists, at the pre-college, undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate level.<\/li>\n<li>Enable reaching the highest standards of research in materials science and nanotechnology by expanding the available technique portfolio on an as-needed basis and advising from expert RIN2 personnel, up-to-date with the pertinent literature<\/li>\n<li>Connect researchers from different disciplines to solve grand challenges<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Rhode Island Consortium for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology is a URI core facility. To know more about other core facilities available at URI, and obtain information helpful for research proposals and development of new projects, please visit this <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/research-admin\/uri-core-facility-equipment-resources-descriptions-for-grant-proposals\/\">link<\/a>. The <em>Rhode Island Consortium for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology<\/em>&nbsp;is supported by the University of Rhode Island <a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/\">College of Engineering<\/a>&nbsp;and the<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/rinsfepscor\/\"> National Science Foundation EPSCoR <\/a>Cooperative Agreement #OIA-1655221.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coresri.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1379\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1758\/CoresRI_WebButton_250x123px.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"111\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rhode Island Consortium of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (RIN2) is a multi-user materials characterization facility that enables cutting-edge academic and industrial research and education through access to advanced material characterization techniques. Specific objectives of RIN2 are: Offer advanced material characterization to users at URI, other academic institutions, non-profits and industries: scanning and transmission electron microscopy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4868,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4868"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}