New power centre for nanotechnology

This will happen with the opening of a joint consortium within nanoscience and nanotechnology between the University of Copenhagen and Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

The universities have invested large amounts in research infrastructure. Earlier this year, Mc-Kinney Møllers Fond for public purposes donated an amount of approximately EUR 13 million for development and purchase of the world’s most powerful microscope as well as five other microscopes for DTU.

Copenhagen and the Øresund Region are already well known as Medicon Valley and the drug and health industries will be able to develop many new forms of treatment with nanotechnology.

However, also other sectors within the region’s strongholds will be able to exploit the centre. The food industry would for example be able to limit bacterial problems within all links of the food production chain with nanotreated surfaces. And the development of the so-called hydrogen society is also to a large extent built on nanotechnology, which plays a central role in connection with both storage and incineration of hydrogen.

Source: COPENHAGEN CAPACITY