The publications represent research progress from fundamental properties of nano-objects (nanofibers, nanorods, nanowires, nanoparticles, quantum wells…), 2D materials and thin films to energy related applications, advanced devices, processing; several were ranked as highlights. Within this diversity, novel 2D materials and resist materials for higher resolution lithography in nanoelectronics are examples of frontier research. The Industrial Liaison Network (ILNet) offered to industry the added value of a multi-platform approach. More than 12% of applications were driven by industry. The JRAs have implemented prototypes that were added to the technical offer. A working data and metadata infrastructure (IDRP) was built and made available online to the users, including the administrative metadata relevant to the proposals. This development represents a successful evidence of the steps required to ease data interoperability and data reusability in a highly fragmented and complex scientific community like the nanoscience one. In JRA1, a Fast-scan module, optimized for use with STM (D6.1) and proved to be applicable also to AFM (D6.2) is now mature enough for commercial exploitation, with first licensing contracts for the background patent and contacts from perspective customers. Combining high-resolution imaging in X-ray microscopy and diffractive X-ray lenses by means of line-doubling (D6.3 D6.6 D6.7) Fresnel zone plates with a spatial resolution of 18 nm were commissioned and tested. Controlled and reproducible fabrication of structures has been pushed to structural sizes below 10 nm in JRA2. Upgrades of pump-probe setups and theory tools for ultrafast science have been put in place for users in JRA4, and modular nano-transfer routines to efficiently identify the nano-region of interest with nm precision, have been developed and tested in JRA5. The NA helped to create a positive distributed infrastructure dynamics and the training actions contributed to mature the next generation of researchers in nanoscience.
