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What Is Nanotechnology?

Is it nano-bots or something out of a science fiction story? Not exactly.

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Nanotech Faculty

Alissa Agnello, Department Chair
Alissa manages all of the components of SHINE and is the lead faculty member of the Nanotechnology program. She has been teaching nanotechnology, chemistry and materials science at North since 2007. Alissa can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Peter Peter Kazarinoff
Peter manages, repairs, and maintains all of the scientific instruments in the SHINE Nanotechnology Lab. Peter's prior experience in nanotechnology research includes the fabrication and testing of organic solar cells and field-effect transistors. He has been teaching nanotechnology and materials science at North since 2011. Peter can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Sarah McQuaide
Sarah teaches the lab portion of the Micro/Nanofabrication course in one of the University of Washington cleanrooms. Sarah is a research engineer at the University of Washington Genomation Lab.