{"id":16,"date":"2025-11-26T21:04:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nesacbio\/wordpress\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2026-01-12T16:59:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:59:43","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nesacbio\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>NESAC\/BIO Mission Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NESAC\/BIO&#8217;s mission is to develop and apply new surface analysis technologies for surface characterization. Our surface analysis expertise combined with state-of-the-art instrumentation and data analysis methods allows us to expand the frontiers of surface analysis.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NESAC\/BIO provides expert and detailed information about surface properties (composition, structure, spatial distribution, and molecular orientation) needed by modern surface engineering. State-of-the-art instrumentation is coupled with specialized experimental protocols and data analysis methods to address a wide range of research and development issues. Combining our surface analysis expertise with collaborators\u2019 expertise provides the information needed to advance surface characterization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>New developments in materials science that make it possible to control surface chemistry on an increasingly smaller scale are placing increased demands on surface analysis techniques. These developments include:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>-Decreasing the lateral dimensions of controllable chemical variations<br>-Increasing the complexity of molecules being introduced at the surface<br>-Increasing the sophistication of surface manipulations<br><br><br>NESAC\/BIO\u2019s continuing work at the frontiers of surface analysis allows us to meet the challenges and opportunities presented by these new developments. Since starting as an ESCA center, NESAC\/BIO has evolved and now has an extensive suite of complementary, surface analysis techniques (ESCA, ToF-SIMS, SPM, NEXAFS, and SEM). Within each technique we are continually expanding the types of analyses available to provide a more detailed and comprehensive understanding of biomedical surfaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NESAC\/BIO Mission Statement NESAC\/BIO&#8217;s mission is to develop and apply new surface analysis technologies for surface characterization. Our surface analysis expertise combined with state-of-the-art instrumentation and data analysis methods allows us to expand the frontiers of surface analysis. NESAC\/BIO provides expert and detailed information about surface properties (composition, structure, spatial distribution, and molecular orientation) needed<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nesacbio\/about-us\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;About Us&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nesacbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nesacbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nesacbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nesacbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nesacbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nesacbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nesacbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/nesacbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}