Nano research center to take on energy issues

摘要

I was struck with a sense of old-fashioned, innocent irony while walking through the halls of the DOE's newest Center for Functional Nanomaterials in Upton, NY. This ultra-modern behemoth of a building-all 94,500 square feet of it-will support research dedicated to addressing the energy needs of the futurernthrough the development of na-noscale materials and technologies. I guess the building's size relates more to the problem at hand rather than the potential solution.