CBN Nano works with selected organizations to evaluate and develop applications of atomically precise fabrication. Engagements are structured around technical fit, measurable learning, and a credible path from feasibility to application impact.
Discuss a CollaborationThe right structure depends on the maturity of the challenge, the desired outcome, and how closely the work connects to CBN Nano's current platform.
Collaborative programs for universities, national laboratories, and mission-driven research organizations.
Focused technical programs for companies evaluating whether atomic precision can address a defined device, material, or process limitation.
Longer-horizon relationships for organizations seeking to shape future atomic manufacturing capabilities and scalable system architectures.
Define the structure, interface, process, or performance limitation that creates value.
Evaluate alignment with current tools, materials, workstations, and verification methods.
Establish scope, milestones, data requirements, IP terms, and decision points.
Use measured results to stop, refine, expand, or progress toward a pilot.
Explore structures and interfaces where atomic placement or defect control could influence device behaviour.
Evaluate whether designed atomic configurations can enable properties inaccessible to bulk processing.
Assess whether a target structure can be built and verified through available atomic operations.
Fabrication results can be assessed through STM rather than inferred only from bulk outcomes.
Tool chemistry can be connected directly to the intended fabrication challenge.
Atomistic models support interpretation, process design, and comparison with measured structures.
Chemistry, surface science, engineering, software, and operations work within one platform.
The starting point is an expanding set of completed hydrogen, silicon, and carbon operations.
Programs can begin narrowly and expand only when evidence supports the next investment.
Five independent molecular workstations run in parallel, so a single system down for service or upgrade never stalls a partner program — no single point of failure.
Our lab is housed within a high-security Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited manufacturing facility in Ottawa — with 24-hour on-site security, camera surveillance, and controlled card access protecting sensitive partner work and intellectual property.
Programs run on five independent molecular workstations in Ottawa — ultra-high-vacuum chambers, cryogenic scanning probe microscopy, and in situ characterization, purpose-built for atomically precise fabrication and operating in parallel so your program keeps moving even when one system is offline.
Tell us what you are trying to build, measure, or control. We will assess whether a focused collaboration is technically credible and strategically worthwhile.
We respond to partnership and research inquiries quickly. For pilot programs in quantum and advanced materials, use the form and we'll route your message to the right person.
