The client needed to identify needs and opportunities where focused research and collaboration could deliver high-impact solutions to the fundamental challenges in nanomanufacturing across many industries.

This workshop report articulates the common issues identified during the workshop and establishes a path forward foraddressing them.

There are numerous cross-industry challenges related to nanomanufacturing that the involved parties can address through a concerted, integrated public-private effort. The following guiding concepts were identified:

• Enable cross-fertilization and identification of best practices
• Define collaborative research programs that cross industrial sectors, government agencies, and academic disciplines
• Identify challenges that are appropriate for federal and/or industrial funding, and lay foundation for formation of multi-organization consortia
• Establish a database of a variety of past work and fundamental research efforts