Berkeley Lab Dedicates the Molecular Foundry
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At Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry, which was dedicated on March 24, 2006, a broad range of scientific disciplines will be integrated under one roof to make the dream of complex, molecular scale matter-processing a reality.
Traditionally, a foundry has been a place where molded objects are made. The term comes from “founding,” the act of pouring a liquid material into a mold and allowing it to solidify. Since the introduction of industrial foundries in the 17th century, the shape and size of the objects that can be made at a foundry has been limited only by the ability to liquefy a material and cast it in a mold. At a foundry where objects can be fashioned atom-by-atom or molecule-by-molecule, the potential shapes and sizes are virtually limitless. This is the promise of the Molecular Foundry that was officially dedicated at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) on March 24, 2006.
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