Renovation of the North Pod Laboratory of Vivian Hall to Create the Center for Nanoscale Structure, Processes, and Materials

南加州大学是ARI资金的接受者，用于Vivian Hall的翻新，以创建纳米结构，工艺和材料中心。 该建筑建于1965年，以前是土木工程实验室和航空航天工程使用的消声室。 随着土木工程在另一座建筑中的巩固，维维安的北豆荚现在可以形成中心。四个实验室支持六名教授，25名研究生和八名博士后，其协同和多学科的研究和培训通过纳米粒子，纳米结构和纳米相材料的共同主题连接，将被重新安置。 四个实验室将搬迁到Vivian Hall的一楼：分子机器人实验室，工程纳米结构实验室，纳米结构光子器件化合物半导体实验室和纳米复合材料实验室。 目前的研究项目位于校园内的几座建筑物中，缺乏进行研究所需的支持基础设施。Vivian Hall的空间非常适合这种类型的研究，因为它提供了一个接近无振动的环境。 拥有一个高海湾地区将允许住宿的文书，超过八英尺高。建立该设施将使工程学院能够在新的多学科和跨学科重点领域走向更具创新性的研究和教育。

The University of Southern California is the recipient of ARI funds for the renovation of Vivian Hall to create the Center for Nanoscale Structure, Processes and Materials. Constructed in 1965, the building formerly housed the Civil Engineering Laboratory, and an Anechoic Chamber used by Aerospace Engineering. With the consolidation of Civil Engineering in another building, the North Pod of Vivian is now available to form the Center. Four laboratories supporting six professors, 25 graduate students, and eight post docs, whose synergistic and multidisciplinary research and training is connected through a common theme of nanoparticles, nanostructures, and nanophase materials, will be relocated. The four laboratories to be relocated on the ground floor of Vivian Hall are: the Laboratory for Molecular Robotics, Laboratory for Engineered Nanostructures, Compound Semiconductor Laboratory for Nanostructure Photonic Devices, and Laboratory for Nanoscale Composites. Current research programs are housed in several buildings on campus lacking supporting infrastructure necessary for conducting research. Space in Vivian Hall is ideally suited for this type of research because it provides a close to vibration-free environment. Possessing a high-bay area will permit the accommodation of instruments that are over eight feet tall. Establishing this facility will allow the School of Engineering to move towards more innovative research and education in new multi-and interdisciplinary focus fields.