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Hub Overview
Münster runs a focused nanotechnology profile with two distinct strengths. The Center for Nanotechnology, one of the first such institutes in Germany, anchors the city's long-standing work in nanobioanalytics, nanomedicine, and analytical tools, drawing on the University of Münster's chemistry, physics, and medicine. Alongside it, Münster has become one of Germany's foremost centers for battery research, built around the MEET battery research center and a national project to develop scalable battery cell production. The result is an unusual pairing of nano-bio analytics and electrochemical energy.
Activity concentrates around the university's science and medical campuses, where the nanotechnology center, the Center for Soft Nanoscience, and the battery institutes sit close together. Münster is smaller than Germany's semiconductor-heavy hubs, but it has carved out a clear position: analytical and biological nanotechnology on one side, and a fast-growing battery research and manufacturing cluster on the other, the latter now a national priority backed by major federal funding.
Research Map
Locations of nanotechnology research labs and companies across the Münster area. Click any marker for the institution’s profile and to find hotels nearby.
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Company
Key Institutions
University of Münster
3 nano groups
CeNTech Center for Nanotechnology
1 nano group
Fraunhofer Research Institution
1 nano group
Helmholtz Institute Münster
1 nano group
Research Labs & Groups
The following nanotechnology research groups and labs are based in the Münster area.
Lab
Münster
CeNTech was created as one of Germany's first centers for nanotechnology. Integrated into the densest network of universities in all over Europe in the German state of North Rhine-Westfalia (NRW), CeNTech provides the ideal environment to direct selected ideas and results of nanotechnological research into technical applications.
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Lab
Münster
Fraunhofer FFB develops and scales sustainable battery cell production technologies, bridging research and industrial-scale manufacturing in Muenster.
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Lab
Münster
Helmholtz Institute Muenster (HI MS), a Forschungszentrum Juelich institute run jointly with the University of Muenster and RWTH Aachen, researches new battery technologies based on innovative electrolytes.
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University
Münster
Researchers at the Center for Soft Nanoscience (SoN) prepare synthetic materials based on biological models such as addressable nanocontainers or materials that switch their function in response to an external trigger. Besides these fundamental investigations, the high-precision tools required to make and analyze these nanomaterials are developed at the SoN.
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University
Münster
MEET (Muenster Electrochemical Energy Technology) is the battery research center of the University of Muenster, developing materials, cells and electrochemistry for high-performance and sustainable batteries.
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University
Münster
The research of the Interface Physics Group is dedicated to the exploration of new nanoscale phenomena and their application to nanotechnology.
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Nanotech Companies
Commercial nanotechnology companies based in the Münster area.
Products
Münster
A system solution provider in microscopy the company develops and manufactures TEM, SEM and scanning probe tips using electro beams positioned with nano precision.
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Products
Münster
Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) integrated on photonic chips for quantum computing, secure communication and microscopy.
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Products
Münster
Develops nanofilm smart labels (the Open Monitor family) that visibly track time, temperature and humidity for product freshness and authentication.
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Services
Münster
Contract research providing nanoscale analysis of cell surfaces using atomic force microscopy and the patented nAnostic method.
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Services
Münster
A contract laboratory specializing in chemical surface analysis.
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