Nanotechnology Research – Initiatives, Networks & Associations

New nanostructures, nanodevices, and nanocircuits are the goal of FORNEL. The Research Cooperation conducts research and development on new materials and deposition techniques for ultra-thin layers as well as for nanoimprint, an alternative lithography technique.

The Bay Area Nanotechnology Forum is a group of stakeholders in the economic future of the San Francisco Bay Area organized by the Northern California Nanotechnology Initiative.

The Berkeley Nanotechnology Club fosters and promotes information exchange and entrepreneurship opportunities for Berkeley students and alumni in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Until now, there has been no single organisation providing a seamless concept-to-market route for the emerging bio-nanotechnology sector. The UK's new Bio Nano Centre takes the lead by leveraging £50M of new investment in the London Centre for Nanotechnology and the Imperial Institute for Biomedical Engineering coupled to London's vast medical research complex to deliver rapid lab-to-prototype development services. The Bio Nano Centre completes the value chain for companies seeking to rapidly develop, prototype and commercialise new biomedical products by providing a range of high-value infrastructure and capabilities.

The vision of BIODOT is a hybrid bio-organic technology for transduction of dynamical phenomena of biosystems in-vitro. The device that will be developed is based on organic ultra thin film transistors integrated with microfluidics.

This EU project seeks to provide Europe with a major time advantage over their main international competitors by developing a bionanotechnological device that can be used as a nanoactuator/biosensor, which also provides a novel interface between the Biological and Silicon Worlds.

BioNanoNet is a bionanotechnology network in Austria that carries out innovative interdisciplinary research in the field of drug development. Within this network new agents, action and application strategies are being developed by using techniques of nanotechnology. Research efforts are aimed at finding new agents and new treatment strategies for chronic degenerative and infectious diseases.

BBSRC is the UK's leading funding agency for academic research and training in the non-clinical life sciences. It supports several Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations (IRC) in nanotechnology.

The BIOTEX project aims at developing dedicated biochemical-sensing techniques compatible with integration into textile. The consortium includes two research institutes in the field of micro and nanotechnology.