For the 20th time, Nano becomes visible in Finland
The Nanoscience Days 2024 is an international event on nanoscience and technology providing an interdisciplinary forum for researchers from biology, chemistry and physics. The idea is to gather together experts on the fast-evolving field of nanoscience to create new ideas for future trends. The conference hosts high-profile plenary speakers providing insightful lectures presenting overview of the field combined with recent results, thus suitable for a wide range of audience.
Nanoscience is the field of the future and has many practical applications. Nanotechnology is already present in everyday life, for example inside every mobile phone. One of the most famous inventions made in the Nanoscience Center, Jyväskylä, is nano-influenced skis where nano-sized particles make the base of the skis irregular and ensure smooth sliding combined with stickiness under pressure.
- Nanoscience has many applications in a wide range of fields from medicine to technology. In medicine, nano-sized precision medicines are being developed to treat different diseases. Minimising the amount of medicine allows more precise targeting. Nanotechnology has also made it possible to reduce energy consumption in lighting and has made cleaning easier. For example, nano-enhanced self-cleaning surfaces are very common already says the scientific Director of the Nanoscience Center Lotta-Riina Sundberg, who is the one of the main organisers of the Nanoscience Days.
High level research at the nanoscale
The Nanoscience Center at the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ is a unique cross-disciplinary research center where physicists, chemists and biologists collaborate to solve challenging problems that need strong multidisciplinary expertise. Nanoscience Center is one of the most eminent hallmarks of excellence in research at the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥. Its research projects span from fundamental investigations of processes in nanoscale structures to development of commercial products. Recent projects at the Nanoscience Centre have developed new types of anti-virus surfaces, novel self-assembling nanostructures, highly sensitive molecular electronics switches and detectors and quantum computer components.
- Our strength is that we host people from different areas, from practical biologists to theoretical physicists. An interdisciplinary research environment makes it possible to understand how physicists, chemists and biologists think, how people work together while everyone has their area of expertise and create new innovations and ideas, says Sundberg.
Nanoscience Days for the 20th time
The Nanoscience Center was founded 20 years ago. The initial opening ceremony involved many famous scientists and from that on the tradition has continued in the form of Nanoscience Days. The scientific programme consists of about 10 plenary lectures given by prominent scientists around the world. This year, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry Morten Meldal will be speaking at the Nanoscience Days. The best part of Nanoscience Days are the discussions and contacts.
- Everything cannot be learned from publications and some things are never published. Getting to know other people's thoughts and the opportunity for discussion and questions corresponds to the possibility of interaction offered by nanoscience days. One of our goals is to increase opportunities for younger researchers to discuss with more experienced experts and enable them to build their own network, explains Sundberg.
The Nanoscience Center (NSC) at the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ is the largest interdisciplinary research center in Finland. More than 140 researchers and 30 research groups work at the NSC.
