Nanotechnology Research – Initiatives, Networks and Associations

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.

EUCOR Nanoscience is a project to facilitate the mobility of students in the field of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. The current partners of this project are the University of Basel, the University of Freiburg, the University of Karlsruhe, the University of Strasbourg and the Université de Haute Alsace Mulhouse. The project is embedded into the interregional European organizsation EUCOR.

The purpose of the nanotechnology committee of the IEC is to deal with the relevant nanotechnological aspects in developing generic standards for electrical and electronic products and systems. Typically, these concern electronics, optics, magnetics and electromagnetics, electroacoustics, multimedia, telecommunication, and energy production and, more specifically, terminology and symbols, measurement and performance, reliability, design and development, electromagnetic compatibility.

An organization dedicated to the promotion of Nanotribology

ISO Committee TC 229 addresses standardization in the field of nanotechnologies. Specific tasks include developing standards for: terminology and nomenclature; metrology and instrumentation, including specifications for reference materials; test methodologies; modelling and simulations; and science-based health, safety, and environmental practices.

Run by the Swiss Innovation Society, the activities support their mission of assessing, communicating and reducing the environmental and health risks associated with nanotechnology in order to promote a safe and successful use of nanotechnology in the future. Contains a reports database: Safety and risks of nanotechnology.

Nano Cluster Bodensee is a nanotechnology interest group in the economic area around Lake Constance.

The main objectives of the NanoMesh project are to understand the self-assembly processes leading to this highly interesting and non-trivial nanostructure, to find routes for controlling the mesh parameters and for mass production, and to demonstrate its prospects for future applications as a oxygen- and carbon-free template for the production of nanocatalysts, nanomagnets and for functionalized surfaces.

The aim of the ESF program 'Nanotribology (NATRIBO)' is to improve the collaborations between experimentalists and theoreticians in the field of tribology on the nanometer scale.

The RADSAS project aims at developing efficient strategies for parallel, two-dimensional molecular self-assembly on surfaces, which we consider an indispensable prerequisite for the technical realization of supra-molecular design and engineering.