Australian National University - Nanotube group: producing boron nitride and carbon nanotubes using a new relatively low temperature milling process.

Washington University - Center for study and research in nanotechnology, offering cross disipline graduate courses in the field.

Northwestern University - Transportation Center: nanotechnology as applied to the transportation sector.

Cranfield University - Nanotechnology Group, Advanced Materials Department: Research, facilities and courses, including the MSc in Microsystems and Nanotechnology, the first nanotechnology degree course in Europe.

Cambridge University - Department of Engineering: Nanoscale Science Laboratory: nanotubes, nanomagnetics, nanowires, spin dependent transport, nanotribology, sensors, scanning probe microscopy, electron beam lithography, and an introduction to nanotechnology.

Birmingham University - Nanoscale Physics Research Laboratory: surface modification, cluster physics, sensors, scanning probe microscopy, nano-optics, and thin films.

Nottingham University - Nanoscience Group: "bottom up" approaches to nanotechnology, scanning probe microscopes, properties of fullerenes and derivatives.

California University - Department of Physics: Condensed Matter Physics: Zettl Research Group: research into the electronic, magnetic, and structural properties of novel materials, including nanostructures such as telescoping nanotube bearings. (Berkeley)

Northwestern University - Nanoscience and Technology Lab: synthesis and properties of carbon and boron nitride nanotubes and nanofibers, fullerenes, and how materials synthesis at the sub-micron scale can impact the biological sciences.

Texas University - Malcolm Brown's Nanopage: ongoing research in the structure and synthesis of nanostructures and high resolution transmission electron microscopy and specialized light microscopy.