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Erciyes University Nanotechnology Application and Research Center, generally shortened as ERNAM, is an institution with a focus on fundamental research on nanotechnology and its application. It is one of the several research centers of the Erciyes University, located in the Talas district of Kayseri, a large central Anatolian city.

Construction of the ERNAM building was started with a groundbreaking ceremony held on April 11th, 2011, with the participation of Abdullah Gül, the 11th president of Turkey and a Kayseri local. Initial funding of 1 million Turkish lira, equal to about 630,000 USD, was provided by a local businessman Fevzi Mercan, and his family.

ERNAM features a state-of-the-art clean room that houses various nanofabrication equipment, including a maskless lithography system, a photolithography machine, a plasma-assisted deposition system, and a physical vapor deposition system. Besides, several wet chemistry labs located inside ERNAM can be used for material synthesis and preparation. These facilities supplement special ones like the polymer preparation lab, the battery fabrication lab, and the biomaterials lab. ERNAM has one well-equipped characterization and analysis lab that hosts scanning electron microscopy, profilometer, optical and fluorescence microscope, Raman microscope, FTIR microscope, and ellipsometer.

The current director of ERNAM is Prof. Dr. Mustafa Serdar ÖNSES, who obtained his Ph.D. in material science from University of Wisconsin. Other researchers include Associate Professor Erkan YILMAZ, Professor Ertuğrul ŞAHMETLİOĞLU, Associate Professor Yavuz Nuri Ertaş, Associate Professor ÖMER AYDIN,and others. These scientists and their teams actively conduct their research in areas such as nanofabrication, chemical sensors, superhydrophobic surfaces, encoding materials, photocatalysis, separation science, batteries and supercapacitors, biomaterials, and tissue engineering.