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Research at the Nanoscience Center

Nanoscience studies phenomena and structures in the nanometer size range in an interdisciplinary manner - using physics, chemistry and biology. The focus can be in materials and molecules, where the small size of the system brings out new phenomena.

Strength in collaboration

The Nanoscience Center is responsible for nanoscience research in JYU.

Nanoscience is a rapidly developing field that impacts the development of electronics and many other everyday things. The Nanoscience Center (NSC) conducts research that aims to respond to society's major challenges by combining expertise and methods from different disciplines that complement each other. For example, research related to health and well-being, sustainable development, and the second quantum revolution is carried out in NSC, in collaboration with different fields within the university, but also with other domestic and foreign universities. NSC is Finland's only truly interdisciplinary research unit focusing on nanoscience, and there are only a few similar ones worldwide. 

Nanoscience Center is a high-level research environment that provides diverse repertoire of research equipment for cross-disciplinary research combining expertise of physics, chemistry, and biology. 

Nanoscience is within of the JYU’s core fields (“Basic natural phenomena and mathematical thinking”), and it is one of the five core research areas of the JYU Faculty of Mathematics and Science: Multidisciplinary nanoscience. 

nanoscience center
Nanoscience Center is a high-level research environment that provides diverse of research for cross-disciplinary research combining expertise of physics, chemistry, and biology.

The focus areas of the research

The current research at Nanoscience Center can be divided in three focus areas.
Varpu Marjomäki laboratoriossa.

Health and well-being

The information of the research may be utilized for example in biomedical applications or in other technological systems.
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Sustainable society

The research focuses on the synthesis of novel nanostructures and assemblies, as well as their structural aspects.
Second quantum revolution

Second quantum revolution

The mission is to exploit the quantum properties of matter such as superposition, and entanglement to develop new functional tools and devices.

Facilities and Instruments

Nanoscience Center is a high-level research environment that provides diverse repertoire of research equipment for cross-disciplinary research combining expertise of physics, chemistry, and biology.
  • Laser laboratory: Laser processes are efficient methods that comply with sustainable development and that are used for several tasks. 
  • Imaging facility: It provides infrastructure for high-resolution imaging and image analysis  in biology, chemistry, physics and nanoscience.
  • Cleanroom facility: An environment that has a low level of particles such as dust. It is used in nanofabrication for scientific and industrial research.
  • Cryolabs: Sensitive electrical and thermal measurements are performed at cryogenic temperatures.
  • Viruslabs: The biosafety level 2 cell culturing facility and the virus lab are directly connected with fluorescence confocal microscopy setups including Leica SP8 Lightning confocal microscope for live cell imaging.
  • Computational facilities: The Faculty features extensive computational resources available for a wide range of applications
  • The X-ray Diffraction facility: X-ray diffraction systems give data on crystal structure, phase, crystal orientation, average grain and size.
  • Mass Spectrometry facility: Mass spectrometry is an analytical technique that ionizes chemical species and sorts the ions
  • NMR facilities: NMR spectroscopy is essential in many fields of chemistry, physics, biochemistry, and medicine.

Research groups and projects

Research group

Accelerator Based Materials Research

Accelerator based materials research group operates Ion Beam Analysis facilities located in the Accelerator Laboratory and for example ALD and HIM tools in the Nanoscience Center NSC. Research is covered from fundamental physics to detector development.
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Bacteriophages against antibiotic resistant bacteria

Bacteriophages – viruses that help when antibiotics fail
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Biomolecular NMR spectroscopy group

Our Lab works at the interface of structural biology, chemical biology and microbiology, trying to glean structural level understanding of host-pathogen interactions, or synthesis and remodeling of cell wall in multi-drug resistant bacteria
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Cell adhesion and cytoskeleton dynamics research group

Our research group is interested in the regulation of actin cytoskeleton. We combine structural biology, cell biology and developmental Biology.
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Complex Materials

Complex Materials group studies X-ray tomography, image analysis, and their applications.
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Computational and theoretical electrochemistry

The computational and theoretical electrochemistry group
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Computational Nanoscience

The Computational Nanoscience group at Nanoscience Center (NSC-comp) investigates physical, chemical, catalytic and biocompatible properties of various nanosystems with broad range of methods.
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Condensed matter theory group

Theoretical studies of quantum materials and phenomena, special focus on superconductivity, magnetism, and topological media
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Cougnon Group - Supramolecular Chemistry & Molecular Nanotopology

Synthesis and properties of entangled macromolecules; Self-assembly; Dynamic covalent chemistry
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Host-pathogen interactions - virus infection mechanisms and antiviral development

Marjomäki Virus Research group
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Hybrid Quantum Technologies in Silicon

We study silicon based quantum hybrid systems, concentrating on the interaction between spins, phonons and photons.
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Molecular electronics and plasmonics

Group studies nanoelectronics, -plasmonics, -photonics, and polaritonics; concentrating on phenomena in quantum level involving molecules as active components or building blocks.
Project

EQUSPACE - Enabling new quantum frontiers with spin acoustics in silicon

EQUSPACE is a four year long consortium project, led by the Ģֱ. It has been awarded 3.2 million euros from the European Innovation Council’s (EIC) Pathfinder Open funding programme to pioneer quantum technologies in silicon.
Project

GIN - Graphene-based Interfaces for Neuroapplications

GIN forms an interdisciplinary postdoc project consortium. It is part of the profiling spearheads within the Ģֱ.
Project

qSIME - Quantum simulations and measurements for nanotechnology

qSIME strengthens JYU's position within the Finnish quantum research scene by boosting our already strong research in quantum nanomaterials with quantum computing.