Shared Knowledge Base
Bring together SOPs, process notes, manuals, training materials, troubleshooting guides, equipment documentation, and data in one searchable knowledge base.
NanoKnow™
Where nanofab knowledge lives.
About NanoKnow™
An open AI and data-sharing platform for nanofabrication knowledge.
NanoKnow helps labs, researchers, students, and facility staff organize, discover, and reuse the knowledge and data needed to train users, operate tools, develop processes, troubleshoot problems, and support complex research.
Today, much of this knowledge is scattered across documents, websites, internal folders, staff experience, and informal conversations. NanoKnow brings it together in a structured, searchable, and AI-accessible form so that expertise can be preserved, shared, and reused across the broader nanofabrication community.
By connecting documentation, process data, training materials, troubleshooting insights, and community expertise, NanoKnow helps reduce duplicated effort, accelerate research, improve training, and support the path from academic discovery to real-world technology development.
What NanoKnow™ Does
Structured Metadata
Connect knowledge to tools, processes, materials, facilities, contributors, and context so information can be organized, attributed, and reused.
AI-Assisted Discovery
Use intelligent agentic search and retrieval to help users find relevant fabrication knowledge faster — with cited sources and clear provenance so results can be trusted and traced back to their origin.
Why NanoKnow™ ?
Turning scattered nanofabrication knowledge into shared progress.
Nanofabrication facilities generate enormous practical knowledge every day — how to train users, operate tools, develop processes, troubleshoot failures, and support complex research. But much of this knowledge remains local and difficult to find: scattered across internal documents, websites, folders, manuals, staff experience, and informal conversations.
Across the national nanofabrication ecosystem, many facilities face similar challenges. When knowledge is hard to access, even within a single facility, staff and researchers spend valuable time rebuilding documentation, repeating process development, and solving problems that others have already encountered.
NanoKnow helps change this by creating an open, AI-enabled platform for organizing and sharing fabrication knowledge across institutions. By making documentation, training resources, process expertise, and troubleshooting insight easier to discover and reuse, NanoKnow can help accelerate research, improve training, reduce duplicated effort, and support the transition from academic discovery to real-world technology development.
Participating Facilities
Partnering to advance nanofabrication knowledge.
The facilities shown here represent early collaborators and knowledge contributors helping demonstrate NanoKnow’s vision for shared nanofabrication knowledge. NanoKnow welcomes interest from additional facilities, institutions, researchers, staff, and community partners. To explore participation, contribute resources, or receive updates, please register your interest through the Join page at the link below.