Nanoscale Material Science and Engineering Building Dedication Set for Friday

The University of Arkansas invites the campus community to the dedication of the Nanoscale Material Science and Engineering building at 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16. Chancellor G. David Gearhart and Gov. Mike Beebe will make remarks, and Scott Livingston of Livingston Securitites LLC will give the keynote address. 

The building will accommodate the needs of engineers, physicists, chemists and biologists engaged in nanoscale research on the University of Arkansas campus.

Because of the atomic-level research that takes place in the building, its rooms were built with the needed specifications to support nanoscale research. Rooms with sensitive instruments have vibration isolation to prevent interference. Other rooms have electromagnetic wave isolation, so that even seemingly innocent devices such as cell phones cannot penetrate the space. Still other rooms have ultrasensitive temperature control. The building also houses a class 100 cleanroom, a room where the air is so efficiently filtered that fewer than 100 particles of dust a millionth of a meter in diameter or larger can be found in any cubic foot of air over a minute’s time.