The Materials and Interface Nanotechnology Laboratory is a member of the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics at the University of Maryland. Faculty members affiliated with IREAP are drawn from a variety of disciplines including the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute for Physical Science and Technology (IPST), Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Geology, and the Department of Physics.

The Materials and Interface Nanotechnology Laboratory is led by Professor Oded Rabin of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics. The mission of the laboratory is to understand and exploit interactions between inorganic nanoscale objects and their chemical and physical environment. Its efforts involve chemical synthesis, materials characterization, and proof-of-principle devices fabrication.

Our central goal is to explore the new physics that emerges from shrinking the dimensions of materials to the nanoscale, and to identify the significance of the new science for an array of applied fields such as sensing, energy, and biomedicine. Current research projects: (1) directed self-assembly of silver nanocubes for SERS (Raman) sensing, (2) nanostructures as improved thermoelectric materials, and (3) nanoparticle formulations for x-ray tomography (medical imaging).