Useful Links

Rice University:
    Department of Physics and Astronomy
    Rice Quantum Institute (RQI)
    Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology (INST)
    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Department of Chemistry
    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
    NSF Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology

Nanoscience science and condensed matter physics at Rice:
    Barron Group
    Colvin Group
    Hafner Lab
    Halas Group
    Kono Lab
    Link Lab
    Mittleman Group
    Pasquali Group
    Scuseria Group
    Smalley Group
    Tour Group
    Condensed Matter seminars

Cool physics-related sites:
    http://www.arxiv.org - Cornell e-print server - the latest hot results, but no peer review....
    http://nanoscale.blogspot.com - Natelson's condensed matter physics blog
    http://www.aip.org - American Institute of Physics
    http://www.aps.org - American Physical Society

    http://www.research.ibm.com/disciplines/physics.shtml - IBM Research - lots of neat topics
    http://www.bell-labs.com/org/physicalsciences/ - Bell Labs physical sciences
    http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/qsr/index.html - HP Labs nanoscience research
    http://jas2.eng.buffalo.edu/applets/index.html - Very cool java applets for solid state physics!
    http://solidstate.physics.sunysb.edu/teach/intlearn/ - More and different java applets for solid state physics.
    http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl - Another java-driven physics site, though at a lower level.
    http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/index.html - University of Oregon's "virtual lab", another collection of applets.

General Nano-links (far from complete):
    http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/feynman.html - Feynman's "Plenty of Room at the Bottom" lecture
    http://www.ftf.lth.se/nm/nm.html - Nanometer construction consortium
    http://itri.loyola.edu/nanobase/ - NSF-sponsored repository of nanoscale information
    http://www.foresight.org/ - Foresight Institute - a bit on the hypey side
    http://www.nanoscience.tudelft.nl - Delft University in the Netherlands - a very impressive group
    http://www.weizmann.ac.il/condmat/expgroups.html - Weizman Institute - also very impressive.
    http://www.its.caltech.edu/~nano/- Mike Roukes' group at CalTech
    http://www.iqcd.ucsb.edu/clelandgroup/- Andrew Cleland's group at UCSB
    http://www.physics.cornell.edu/profpages/Schwab.htm- Keith Schwab at Cornell
    http://rleweb.mit.edu/rlestaff/p-asho.htm  - Ray Ashoori at MIT
    http://web.mit.edu/kastner-group/index.html- Marc Kastner's group at CalTech
    http://marcuslab.harvard.edu - Charlie Marcus' group at Harvard
    http://meso.deas.harvard.edu/ - Bob Westervelt's group at Harvard
    http://cmliris.harvard.edu/ - Charlie Lieber's group at Harvard
    http://tinkham.physics.harvard.edu/ - Mike Tinkham's group at Harvard
    http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~hpark - Hongkun Park's group at Harvard
    http://www.its.caltech.edu/~heathgrp/  - Jim Heath at CalTech
    http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~jclarke2/ - John Clarke's group at Berkeley
    http://physics.berkeley.edu/research/zettl/ - Alex Zettl's group at Berkeley
    http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rimgroup/people.html- Alex Rimberg's group at Dartmouth
    http://uw.physics.wisc.edu/~eriksson/- Mark Eriksson's group at Wisconsin
    http://www.eng.yale.edu/rslab/- Rob Schoelkopf's group at Yale
    http://www.eng.yale.edu/qlab/- Michel Devoret's group at Yale
    http://www.yale.edu/proberlab/- Dan Prober's group at Yale
    http://www.eng.yale.edu/reedlab/- Mark Reed's group at Yale
    http://www.physics.upenn.edu/~drndic/group/- Marija Drndic's group at Penn
    http://www.lrsm.upenn.edu/~nanophys/- Charlie Johnson's group at Penn
    http://www.physics.umd.edu/mfuhrer/- Michael Fuhrer's group at Maryland
    http://physics.ucr.edu/~lau/index.html- Jeannie Lau's group at UC Riverside
    http://www.phy.duke.edu/research/nano/- Gleb Finkelstein's group at Duke
    http://nanoscale.caltech.edu/people/default.htm- Marc Bockrath's group at CalTech
    http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jpelab/- Jim Eisenstein's group at CalTech
    http://nanofab.caltech.edu/- Axel Scherer's group at CalTech
    http://daedalus.caltech.edu/- Harry Atwater's group at CalTech
    http://www.ee.psu.edu/microtech/ - Theresa Mayer's group at Penn State
    http://stm1.chem.psu.edu/ - Paul Weiss' group at Penn State
    http://dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu/~datta/  -  Supriyo Datta at Purdue
    http://www.physics.purdue.edu/nanophys/ - Ron Reifenberger's group at Purdue
    http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/lassp_data/mceuen/homepage/welcome.html - Paul McEuen at Cornell
    http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/lassp_data/ralph.html - Dan Ralph at Cornell
    http://chem.stanford.edu/group/dai/   - Hong Jie Die's group at Stanford
    http://www.stanford.edu/group/moler/ - Kam Moler's group at Stanford
    http://www.stanford.edu/group/GGG/ - David Goldhaber-Gordon's group at Stanford
    http://www.physics.uiuc.edu/People/Faculty/Profiles/Bezryadin/ - Alexey Bezryadin at UIUC
    http://www.physics.uiuc.edu/People/Mason/index.htm - Nadya Mason at UIUC
    http://www.chem.northwestern.edu/~todom/ - Teri Odom at Northwestern
    http://meso.phys.northwestern.edu/ - Venkat Chandrasekhar at Northwestern
    http://www.pa.msu.edu/cmp/birge-group/ - Norman Birge's group at Michigan State
    http://www.physics.gatech.edu/davidovic/ - Dragomir Davidovic's group at Georgia Tech
    http://www.physics.gatech.edu/npeg/index.html- Walt de Heer's group at Georgia Tech
    http://pico.phys.columbia.edu/- Philip Kim's group at Columbia
    http://www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry/fac-bios/brus/group/index.html- Louis Brus' group at Columbia
    http://faculty.washington.edu/cobden/ - David Cobden's group at Washington
    http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/nano/ - The UNC NanoManipulator page

Scan Probe Microscopy:
    http://www.almaden.ibm.com/vis/stm/gallery.html - Don Eigler's images at IBM
    http://www.stanford.edu/group/quate_group/ImageFrame.html - Cal Quate's group at Stanford
    http://mota.stanford.edu/ - Hari Manoharan group at Stanford
    http://www.chem.northwestern.edu/~mkngrp/ - Chad Mirkin's group at Northwestern
    http://green.la.asu.edu/- Stuart Lindsay's group at Arizona State
    http://wwwphy.princeton.edu/~yazdaniweb - Ali Yazdani at Princeton
    http://people.ccmr.cornell.edu/~jcdavis - Seamus Davis' group at Cornell

Useful vendors
    http://www.espi-metals.com/- ESPI
    http://www.cerac.com/- CERAC
    http://www.americanelements.com/- American Elements
    http://www.lakeshore.com/- Lakeshore
    http://www.janis.com/- Janis
    http://www.cryoindustries.com/- Cryo Industries
    http://www.attocube.de/- Attocube
    http://www.stencil.com/- Photo Etch Technology