Nanotechnology Research – Directory

CIVEN is an association between the University of Padova and the University Ca'Foscari of Venezia devoted to the promotion of research and training activities in the field of nanotechnology. Founded in March 2003, it is fully funded by the Government of the Veneto Region. CIVEN is part of Veneto Nanotech, the Italian high-tech cluster of nanotechnologies applied to materials.

A European project for the devolopment of an integrated platform to assess the risk of nanoparticles.

MAT-NANO is the device fabrication section of the 'Physical Technologies and New Materials' (FIM) department of ENEA, the Italian Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Environment.

The integrated project PACE will explore the utilization of the simplest technically feasible elementary living units to build evolvable complex information systems. The Center will create, analyse and investigate the applications of such systems that process information by self-organization starting at molecular scales. They will explore the collective properties of artificial cells and demonstrate that they are the right material for building nanoscale robot ecologies.

The goal of ECSIN is to carry out research and studies to evaluate whether and which could be the backlash upon human and environment health, due to the exposition to nanoparticles and/or nanomaterials.

The Institute is the Italian leading center for the growth and chemical-physical characterization of molecular thin films, and it is involved in several European Community Projects.

The main aim of CNR, based in Rome, is the study and fabrication of advanced devices for photonics, optoelectronics and electronics. Nanotechnologies play a prominent role in these research fields. The combined expertise in nanofabrication, materials and photonics creates a synergy able to compete in this very new and challenging field.

ICCOM consists of a head office and laboratories in Florence and two stations located in the Universities of Pisa and Bari. Reserach areas include fuel cells, nanostructured metal-based materials, high-tech polymeric materials, green chemistry, and molecules of pharmaceutical interest.

The laboratory merges and coordinates Centres of Excellence in the basic research related to the development of micro and nano-devices and sensors for genomics and post-genomics.

The lab research activity is devoted to the synthesis and characterization of nanostructured films and surfaces, clusters and nanostructures.

The Nanofab assists local business in the Veneto area with nanotechnology based innovation and product development.

An EC financed project to examine the role of micro and nanoparticles in inducing pathologies.

Nanotec IT (the Italian Centre for Nanotechnology) is an autonomous branch of AIRI (Italian Association for Industrial Research) whose primary objective is to become the national focal point for nanotechnology and contribute to make more effective the activities going on in the Country in this field so that these efforts could translate into a competitive advantage for the national industry.

NAST is a multidisciplinary research and training centre designed to promote research programs among engineers, materials and medical scientists at the farefront of Italian (bio-) nanotechnology.

The NEST-INFM initiative targets the creation of a world-class research centre where interdisciplinary teams of computational, experimental, and theoretical physicists together with molecular biologists and chemists can investigate key issues of nanoscale physics and exploit the new acquired knowledge to develop innovative nanobiotechnological tools, and nanoelectronic and photonic devices and architectures.