Sabanci University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center: An Experience in Building a Multi-Disciplinary Research Facility Overseas

Sabanci University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM) is developed with approximately 30 M$ and started its operations in June 2011. The center provides valuable additional capabilities to the existing research infrastructure of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences of Sabanci University. The high-tech facility is designed to support cutting-edge scientific and technological research related to nanotechnologies including advanced materials, nano-biotechnology, nano-medicine, nano-electronics, micro-nanofluidics, nanomechanics, nano-optics, micromachining, micro and nano-systems and alternative energy sources.