The Center for Nanotechnology Innovation (CNI) is an interdisciplinary R&D center dedicated to the synthesis of new low-dimensional and nano materials, the exploration of their properties and their implementation in a variety of applications ranging from photonic and quantum technologies to biomedicine. The center is embedded in the NEST laboratories of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and is part of the network of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) whose headquarters are in Genova.