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Nanotechnology in Helsinki Region Nanotechnology in Helsinki Region EXAMPLES OF NANOTECHNOLOGY RELATED RESEARCH ORGANISATIONS AND COMPANIES CULMINATUM LTD OY – HELSINKI REGION CENTRE OF EXPERTISE Content The Centre of Expertise Programme and nanotechnology in Helsinki Region . 4 Helsinki University of Technology TKK . 5. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland . 6. The Centre for Metrology and Accreditation MIKES . 6. University of Helsinki . 7. CSC The Finnish IT Center of Science . 8 KCL – Oy Keskuslaboratorio – Centrallaboratorium Ab . 8. Finnish Meteorological Institute FMI . 9. Finnish Institute of Occupational Health FIOH . 9. Beneq – Equipment and Technology for Functional Coatings . 9 Canatu – NanoBud™ Based Electronic and Optical Thin Film Components . 1. 0 Carbodeon – Superhard Nanomaterials . 1. 0 Enfucell – Thin Flexible SoftBatteries™ . .10 Genano – Air Purification Units . .10 Kemira – Chemical Group . .11 nLIGHT Corporation . 1. 1 nGlass – Glass Tiles . 1. 2 Nokia – Connecting People . .12 Okmetic – Silicon Solutions for Advanced Technologies . 1. 2 Orion Diagnostica – Biomedical Company . 1. 3 Panipol – Inherently Conductive Polymers . 1. 3 Picodeon – Surface Freedom™ – Making the Impossible Possible . .13 Picosun – The ALD Powerhouse . .14 Planar Systems – Display Solutions . 1. 4 Teknos – Paints and Coating . .14 Tikkurila – Decorate and Protect . .15 Vaisala – Electronic Measurement Systems . .15 VTI Technologies – Forerunner in Motion and Pressure Measurement . 1. 5 Nanotechnology in Helsinki Region 3 The Centre of Expertise Programme and nanotechnology in Helsinki Region The Centre of Expertise Programme is a fixed term (2007 – 2013) government programme promoting utiliza- tion of the highest international standard of knowledge and expertise . The 13 chosen strategic focus areas – nanotechnol- ogy among them – form Competence Clusters with nation- al coordination and a network of local Centres of Expertise . www .oske .net Nanotechnology Competence Cluster has local Centres of Expertise in Helsinki Region, Oulu, Kokkola, Jyväskylä, Mikkeli, Joensuu and Tampere . Together this nationwide network reaches more than 90% of Finnish nano- and microtech- nology related activities and stakeholders . The mission is to facilitate commercial utilization of new nanotechnology relat- ed know-how . The activities range from match making and focused information transfer to promoting and project build- up . The Cluster’s vision for 2013 reads: Finland has become one of the key EU centres of applied research and business related to nano- and microtechnologies and new materials Program Director, D Sc. (Tech ). Eeva Viinikka based on them . As the Nanotechnology Cluster Programme Tel +358 40 580 4982 is publicly funded, the services are free of charge if anything eeva .viinikka@culminatum .fi is not noticed . www .nanocluster .fi In Helsinki Region the Nanotechnology Centre of Expertise is carried out by Culminatum Ltd Oy, a non-profit seeking development company owned by academia, municipalities and business sector . The focus themes of the Centre are 1) Innovation and commercialization, 2) Particles and nanosafety, 3) Nanotechnology in living and building and 4) Nanotechnology in surfaces and coatings . www .culminatum .fi Helsinki Region plays a special role in Finnish nanotechnol- ogy, as more than half of all domestic nanotechnology relat- ed activities and stakeholders are located in this area . Even though there are numerous stakeholders acting in this field, Project Manager, Lic .Sc . (Tech .) Teija Laitinen the essential core is formed by the research organizations Tel . +358 40 529 5886 and companies developing and utilizing nanotechnology teija .laitinen@culminatum .fi – some of which are introduced in this leaflet . 4 Nanotechnology in Helsinki Region Helsinki University of Technology TKK Helsinki University of Technology, TKK, is the leading and most diversified university of technology and architecture in Finland . The key factors to success of TKK are its talent students, high-quality teaching and the attractive campus designed by Alvar Aalto . The university has 250 professors and 15 000 under- and postgraduate students . Circa 1 000 Master’s degrees and 160 doctorates are awarded each year . TKK offers 19 Master’s programs in Finnish and 11 Master’s programs in English in addition to three Erasmus Mundus programs and hundreds of courses are taught in English . TKK also offers doctoral programs and about 1 200 international students study annually at TKK . In Helsinki University of Technology there are around 20 research groups related to nanotechnology in the depart- ments of Advanced Energy Systems/New and Renewable Energy Systems, Automation and Systems Technology, Bio- technology and Chemical Technology, Communications and Networking, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Engineering Physics, Forest Products Technology, Materials Science and Engineering, and Micro and Nanosciences . Research topics include for instance nanoelectronics and nanophotonics, thin layers, integrated bionanosystems, nanoparticles and nanotubes and self-assembled polymeric nanostructures, and theoretical research and modeling . Micronova in Otaniemi, is a unique center around 2600 m2 clean-room and production facilities focusing on the design, development and fabrication of micro- and nanosystems . It is run jointly by the VTT Technical Research Centre of Fin- land and Helsinki University of Technology, TKK . Nano build- ing is a newly renovated building on the Otaniemi campus housing several research groups that study nanoscience and nanotechnology, including synthesis of functional materials based on self-assembly as well as synthesis of carbon nano- tubes and nanoparticles . The facilities include the new National Microscopy Centre of Finland . www .tkk .fi Nanotechnology in Helsinki Region 5 VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is the biggest con- tract research organisation in Northern Europe, offering R&D services that help its customers to create new products, pro- duction methods and services and generate new business through technology and innovation . VTT is a non-profit- making research organisation . VTT is able to combine large spectrum of interdisciplinary know-how and resources when developing new nanotech- no logies . It has modern facilities for processing micro and nanoelectronics, processing of nanocoatings and compounds, nanoparticle production, printed products, bionanotechnology and nanoparticle safety related research . VTT has a strong emphasis on the applied nano research aiming for industri- ally applicable results . Common property for the developed nanomaterials and structures is functionality, which brings new properties to the materials making them more suitable for their applications or enables them to replace more com- www .vtt .fi plicated structures . The Centre for Metrology and Accreditation MIKES The Centre for Metrology and Accreditation makes interna- tionally accepted measurement units and services . MIKES metrology realizes the SI system measurement units in Fin- land, performs high-level metrological research and develops measuring applications . The modern way of realizing the SI-units is based on nanoscale phenomena . Thus, reliable nanoscale measurements are connected with quantum metrology and constants of nature . Metrology is also ena- bling technique for developing technologies . IC-, litography and nanofabrication need accurate tools for nanoscale pro- duction and quality control . Traceability for nanoscale dimen- sional metrology is provided by MIKES advanced laser inter- ferometers, diffractometers and quantitative atomic force microscopes . MIKES is also developing traceable measure- ment applications at nanoscale range, with such techniques www .mikes .fi as Metrological Coulomb Blockade Thermometer . 6 Nanotechnology in Helsinki Region University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki concentrates on high-level scien- tific research and researcher education . The number of fac- ulties is eleven . There are around 39 000 degree students and 8 000 staff . The number of degrees taken each year is almost 4 300, of which 380 are doctorates . Kumpula campus The Kumpula campus is the largest centre of natural sciences in the Nordic countries . It houses the Departments of Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Statistics, Computer Science, Geology and Geography of the Faculty of Science of the Uni- versity of Helsinki . The Faculty strives to maintain top-level research and teaching standards in all its disciplines: space research, basic research in the environmental science, mate- rials- and nanoscience, computational science, data analy- sis, geoinformatics, teacher education, methodological disci- plines . The Kumpula Campus is one of the most significant nanotechnology research centres in Finland . There is top- level research for instance in aerosols and ALD applications . Viikki Campus The multidisciplinary Viikki Campus is a remarkable centre of biosciences at the European level . Viikki presents excel- lent opportunities for high-quality research and its practical applications . In addition to biosciences, the campus houses also a wide range of researchers in other areas of science: represented areas are for example environmental and veter- inary sciences, food technology and economics . The Facul- ties of Bioscience and Pharmacy, Institute of Biotechnology, Department of Biochemistry and Drug Discovery and Devel- opment Technology Center carry out nanotechnology
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