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Lars Montelius is the new Director of INL

Lars Montelius is the new Director of INL

Lars Montelius took up his appointment as Director-General of INL, on September 1st. The Swedish Professor of Physics has spent more than 25 years working in the Nanotechnology field will lead the Laboratory founded by Portugal and Spain for the next five years. Before his appointment to INL, Lars Montelius held several positions in academia, among them Dean of the Physics Department of Lund University, and director for the Swedish Danish Collaborations, the Öresund University and the Öresund Science Region, where he worked on the development of cross-regional collaborations. During the last few years, he got strongly involved in innovation on the border between academia and business. Lately, he has put much effort into the innovation system and has been engaged as a mentor for students exploring ideas of innovation as well as being responsible for development projects with direction towards establishing a working model and concept to interface academia and society. Parallel to his research and academic career, Montelius founded several successful nanotechnology-based companies, founded of the pioneering and groundbreaking work with his group in the field of nanoimprint lithography. «I am very excited about my new position here at INL and I am really looking forward to take […]

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Spin waves in bits observed for the first time

Spin waves in bits observed for the first time

Image STM image of two artificial bits of seven iron atoms each: one vertically oriented (top) and one diagonally oriented (bottom left) Every time a bit on your hard disk drive is flipped, for a very short period, countless waves will propagate through the bit. These waves are known as spin waves. How spin waves exactly influence the flipping process is hard to determine. In a joint effort, researchers at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) together with colleges at TU Delft (the Netherlands) have now succeeded for the first time in observing spin waves in a bit consisting of only six atoms. They report their findings in this month’s issue of Nature Materials, which devotes the cover to their work. Read Press Release here First full movie of the flip of a magnetic bit

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INL received the visit of the Moroccan Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research

INL received the visit of the Moroccan Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research

The Moroccan Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Lahcen Daoudi visited INL – The International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory. The main goal of the visit was to identify common research interests for future scientific cooperation in common nanotechnology areas of research.The Minister was accompanied by a group of representatives from Moroccan scientific and educational institutions. The Portuguese State Secretary for Higher Education, José Ferreira Gomes, and the Spanish State Secretary for Research, Development and Innovation, Carmen Vela, were also present during the visit. This visit will strengthen Moroccan, Portuguese and Spanish scientific cooperation.

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INL awarded with local merit prize

INL awarded with local merit prize

INL was awarded the local merit prize “A Nossa Terra” in the category “institution/organization”. The Director-general of INL, José Rivas, received the award last Friday evening, on behalf of the Laboratory, in a gala event that took place in the Parque de Exposições de Braga. The Gala “A Nossa Terra” is an annual event, organized by Director and it is meant to award personalities and organizations, in many different categories, that have had an important role during the previous year in the progress and development of the region of Braga. “INL is very honoured by the award. It reflects the positive perception the local community has of INL and its impact in the regional development”, said the director-general of INL. Here is a news article about the evening: http://www.correiodominho.com/noticias.php?id=78116 (Only in Portuguese)

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Portuguese Minister of Health visited INL

Portuguese Minister of Health visited INL

The Portuguese Minister of Health, Paulo Macedo, visited the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) to get to know the main research projects carried out in the area of nanomedicine. The full press release can be read here (only in Portuguese).

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Call for Expressions of Interest for Postdoctoral Research

Call for Expressions of Interest for Postdoctoral Research

The International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) is launching a Call for Expressions of Interest (EOI) for Postdoctoral Research fellow positions. The International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) is an institution with international legal status, registered at the United Nations created to foster interdisciplinary research in Nanotechnology and Nanosciences. INL is a global centre of excellence in applied nanotechnology research, aiming to attract the world’s best scientists and engineers. More information here.

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Theory Group Research on “Control of single-spin magnetic anisotropy by exchange coupling” published in Nature Nanotechnology

Theory Group Research on “Control of single-spin magnetic anisotropy by exchange coupling” published in Nature Nanotechnology

When directly on a metal surface, the magnetism (black arrows) of a single cobalt atom (orange circles) is screened by strong interactions with the surrounding metallic sea (blue). By moving these atoms towards the centre of an island of thin insulator material (white), we can gradually decrease that strength of that interaction, which results in a remarkable enhancement of the magnetic anisotropy. Image Credit: Alfaro Cuevas (http://alfarocuevas.blogspot.com/) The energy needed to change the magnetic orientation of a single atom can be modified by varying the atom’s electrical coupling to nearby metals. The capability to determine an atom’s magnetic orientation provides control over its magnetic stability and therefore its usefulness in a variety of future device applications. This striking result was published in the current edition of the journal Nature Nanotechnology by an international group of scientists working at International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (Portugal), the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL (UK), the University of Zaragoza (Spain), and the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics (Germany). Read more here. Journal link: Control of single-spin magnetic anisotropy by exchange coupling. doi: 10.1038/NNANO.2013.264

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10 research projects selected under INL-Brazil collaboration

10 research projects selected under INL-Brazil collaboration

10 nanotechnology research projects were selected within the INL-Brazil collaboration agreement (CAPES/INL call). The projects will be developed in Brazilian research centers in collaboration with the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory. This initiative arises from the Memorandum of Understanding signed at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), earlier this year, between the governments of Brazil, Portugal and Spain. The results of the 1st call launched by the Brazilian Ministry of Education (CAPES) can be found here. The collaboration agreement allows the access of Brazilian researchers and students to INL’s state of the art facilities and promotes increased awareness and mobility among the different centers. The main areas of cooperation are electronic nanodevices, nanostructures and nanoparticles for applications in nanomedicine, environment control and water and food quality monitoring.

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New PhD Student Positions

New PhD Student Positions

The International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) is launching 3 PhD student positions. The laboratory provides a high-tech research environment formed by state-of-the-art infrastructure equipped with the latest technologies, to address the major challenges in nanofabrication, nanocharacterization and other nanotechnologies applied to environmental & food control, nanomedicine and nanoelectronics. Successful candidates will work on (1) Microfluidic platforms for circulating cancer tumour cells separation and detection; (2) Synthesis of size-controlled Ag clusters by electrochemical methods: optimization and scaling up. Study of their catalytic and antimicrobian properties and (3) Magnetic Nanoparticles for enhanced contrast in MRI imagiology. A successful applicant must have a degree that will allow him/her to embark in a PhD programme. The applicant should have a strong enthusiasm for work and excellent communication skills. Interested applicants should submit, until October 31st 2013, their curriculum vitae and a cover letter describing motivation through INL’s recruitment website at: http://inl.int/job_offers under the “scholarship” section. More information here.

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