WEST LAFAYETTE, IN - Purdue University researchers have received a five-year $14.5 million National Science Foundation grant to expand the widely used nanoHUB.org online science and engineering gateway.

The Purdue-led Cyber Platform, a part of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN), will assist researchers across the globe by developing a virtual society that shares simulation software, data and other innovative content to provide engineers and scientists with the fundamental knowledge required to advance nanoscience into nanotechnology.