News: Nanoscale cooling element
The research group of Prof. Bart van Wees has just published an article in Nature Nanotechnology, describing a nanoscale cooling element that can be controlled magnetically. The project was funded by FOM, the EU, and the Zernike Institute. See the FOM-press release for more details. The results mark the dawn of spin-caloritronics, the study of the role of the magnetic moment of electrons in heat transport.
News: New Roadmap Nanotechnology published
The research centres and industries active in nanotechnology in The Netherlands have jointly put together a new Roadmap Nanotechnology:
Nanotechnology in the topsectors [PDF]
. In January 2012, this document will be submitted to Parliament, as part of the Innovation Contract for High Tech Systems and Materials.
News: Top position of Zernike Institute confirmed
The excellent position of the Zernike Institute has recently been confirmed by Thomson Reuters' Research Analytics (publisher of the Web of Science), which ranks Groningen 4th by impact of its publications in the global Top-20, above Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Max Planck and other renowned institutes (Table 3, right-hand column in the Global Research Report of July 2011 on Materials Science and Technology [PDF]
).
