Nanotechnology Research - Universities in Finland

This programme focuses strongly on researching and building hardware for these technologies, paving the way for a fluent shift towards a career in the industry or an academic postgraduate path.

ALD Center Finland is a national open-access platform for research and education in atomic-layer-level materials processing, especially Atomic Layer Deposition and Atomic Layer Etching. It provides ALD/ALEt reactors, in-situ and in-vacuo reaction-mechanism studies, process development and thin-film characterization services.

The group works on controlled drug release and delivery using modern methods and materials. They are studying bio- and nanomaterials such as liposomes and cellulose nanofibers, the use of new tools to track drug molecules and carriers, and tailored materials for pharmaceutical applications. They are particularly interested in using light to both monitor nanomaterial behaviour and to trigger e.g. drug release processes.

HelsinkiALD is a University of Helsinki research group working in inorganic materials chemistry. Its main research topic is Atomic Layer Deposition, with additional work on thin-film deposition and nanostructure preparation for applications such as integrated circuits, energy technologies, optics, surface engineering and biomaterials.

The Intracellular Drug Delivery research group aims to understand how nanoparticles deliver biological drugs inside cells and to use that understanding to develop nanomedicines for novel biotherapeutics. The group works at the interfaces of chemistry, biology and pharmaceutical sciences.

The Laboratory for Nanomaterials and Quantum Sensing at the University of Helsinki performs analysis and characterization of materials from the atomic to mesoscopic scale. Its techniques include ion implantation, SIMS, XPS, optically detected magnetic resonance, cryogen-free dilution refrigeration, furnaces for high-temperature annealing and terahertz spectroscopy for nanoelectronics, photonics, energy, catalysis and quantum technologies.

The Low Temperature Laboratory at Aalto University is one of the world centres in ultra-low-temperature physics and technology. Its research infrastructure includes sub-mK refrigerators and facilities for quantum, nanoelectronics and ultra-low-temperature experiments.

The Micro and Quantum Systems group is located in Micronova, the nanofabrication facility of Aalto University. Its research spans nanoscale transport phenomena, quantum technologies, nanotechnology-based green energy production, plasmonic nanoparticles, nanoscale thermal engineering, thermoelectrics and single-photon-counting applications.

Micronova is part of OtaNano, Finland's national research infrastructure for micro- and nanotechnology, jointly run by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Aalto University. Research at Micronova focuses on micro and nanotechnology, material and device physics, and optics, with facilities for micro- and nanoelectronic, micromechanical, photonic and fluidic devices.

Molecular Materials is a multidisciplinary research group developing functional materials based on supramolecular and supracolloidal self-assembly and hierarchical structures. The group uses polymers, conjugated polymers, polypeptides, liquid crystals, nanocellulose, metal nanoparticles, dendrimers, virus particles, carbon nanotubes and other carbon-based materials as structural and functional units.