Trans-Atlantic cooperation on nanotechnology
19 October 2000 - 19 October 2000
A joint European Union-National Science Foundation (US) workshop on nanotechnology will be held in Toulouse on 19 October with European Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin introducing a media briefing.
This will be followed by presentations from Professor H. Stormer (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1998; Lucent Technologies and Columbia University) and Professor P. Laggner (Austrian Academy of Sciences). Representatives of the European Commission and the National Science Foundation will then present the EU and US nanotechnology research programme.
The workshop is being held under the umbrella of the 'EU-US agreement on scientific and technological co-operation', and in particular, the implementation arrangement between the Commission and the NSF's for co-operative activities in the field of materials science. Its objectives are to increase awareness of existing activities in nano-scale science and engineering, and the opportunities that the agreement has created.
Nanotechnology is a multidisciplinary science, involving physicists, chemists and biologists studying, researching and engineering devices to measure size in millionths of a millimetre. Current applications incude new semiconductor lasers and random access memories based on giant magnetoresistance. Novel materials are already being marketed, such as sunburn lotions containing ultraviolet-absorbing nano-particles and spectacles with scratch-resistant nano-coating.
In the future, the development of biosensors and biomaterials will have an significant impact on medicine and human health, with increasingly sophisticated DNA-chips, precision drug delivery systems and biocompatible materials.
For registration and further information, please contact:
Stephen Gosden
Communication Unit
Research DG
E-mail: Stephen.Gosden@ec.europa.eu
Fax: +32-2-295 8220
For project-related information, please contact:
Ben Tubbing
Scientific Officer
Research DG
E-mail: Bernardus.Tubbing@ec.europa.eu
Fax: +32-2-296 5987
This will be followed by presentations from Professor H. Stormer (Nobel Prize in Physics, 1998; Lucent Technologies and Columbia University) and Professor P. Laggner (Austrian Academy of Sciences). Representatives of the European Commission and the National Science Foundation will then present the EU and US nanotechnology research programme.
The workshop is being held under the umbrella of the 'EU-US agreement on scientific and technological co-operation', and in particular, the implementation arrangement between the Commission and the NSF's for co-operative activities in the field of materials science. Its objectives are to increase awareness of existing activities in nano-scale science and engineering, and the opportunities that the agreement has created.
Nanotechnology is a multidisciplinary science, involving physicists, chemists and biologists studying, researching and engineering devices to measure size in millionths of a millimetre. Current applications incude new semiconductor lasers and random access memories based on giant magnetoresistance. Novel materials are already being marketed, such as sunburn lotions containing ultraviolet-absorbing nano-particles and spectacles with scratch-resistant nano-coating.
In the future, the development of biosensors and biomaterials will have an significant impact on medicine and human health, with increasingly sophisticated DNA-chips, precision drug delivery systems and biocompatible materials.
For registration and further information, please contact:
Stephen Gosden
Communication Unit
Research DG
E-mail: Stephen.Gosden@ec.europa.eu
Fax: +32-2-295 8220
For project-related information, please contact:
Ben Tubbing
Scientific Officer
Research DG
E-mail: Bernardus.Tubbing@ec.europa.eu
Fax: +32-2-296 5987