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INL Researcher Lifeng Liu awarded FCT Investigator Grant

In the 2014 FCT Investigator call, Lifeng Liu was awarded a “Development Grant” for his proposal entitled “Atomic Layer Deposition Enabled Nanostructure Surface and Interface Engineering for Energy Storage and Conversion”, ranking the 4th in the domain of “Engineering-Technology-Sciences” with an overall score of 9/9. The proposed project aims to use the emerging atomic layer deposition (ALD) technique to synthesize high-quality hybrid nanostructures and engineer the surface as well as the interface of nanomaterials; meanwhile usinge the obtained hybrid nanomaterials to fabricate energy conversion and storage devices such as lithium-ion batteries, supercapacitors, solid-state solar cells and water splitting cells. The main objectives of the project are to develop novel hybrid nanostructures that can offer remarkably improved performance when used in energy conversion and storage and to improve greatly the operational stability of water splitting cells and lithium-ion battery electrodes based on metal oxide nanostructures.

INL COFUND Fellowship Program for International Postdocs – NanoTRAINforGrowth

The International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) opened a 4th call for its COFUND fellowship program for Postdocs– The NanoTRAINforGrowth Program. INL´s international postdoctoral fellowship offers successful applicants the opportunity to perform their innovative scientific project in one of the four attractive Scientific fields pursued at INL: Nanomedicine, Environmental and food control, Nanoelectronics and Nanomanipulation. i) Nanomedicine: point of care diagnostics (lab on chip microsystems, microfluidic platforms), DNA, protein and cell chips, biomolecular labels, drug delivery solutions, imaging, neuroelectronics. ii) Environmental and food control: Nanotechnology applied to Food industry, food safety and environmental control. Water and Soil control, air pollution monitoring. Lab-on-a-chip technologies, Smart Packaging and labels, biosensing technologies, food process control. iii) Nanomanipulation: Single molecule/atom manipulation, molecular motors, nanotweezers, controlled self-assemby of building blocks for nanodevices. iv) Nanoelectronics: NEMS/MEMS, Spintronics, Photonics, Micro and Nanofluidics, integration of new technologies on CMOS. Development of support platforms for the health, environmental and food control, and energy areas. Researchers will have access our new state‐of‐the‐art facility and the opportunity to enhance their expertise via a research project, in a scientific topic of their choice that falls within INL´s strategic research and technological development areas. Eligibility_- INL´s NanoTRAINforGrowth Fellowships are available to researchers who have […]

The Arraiolos Group visited INL

INL received the visit of the Arraiolos Group that comprises the heads of state from nine countries of the European Union. During the visit, the heads of state of Germany, Austria, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Poland and Portugal, and also Bulgaria and Estonia, as special guests, attended a presentation of the INL project by the director general of INL, Lars Montelius. The brief visit also included a tour through the research facility to get to know several laboratories in more detail. The Presidents from Germany, Finland, Poland and the Spanish Ambassador had the opportunity to greet personaly researchers from their country. The Arraiolos Group gathered in Braga for their 10th meeting to debate energy issues, immigration and the role of research and innovation in promoting growth, competitiveness and job creation. The Group includes non-executive Presidents of European Union member states and its aim is to provide an open and informal discussion between the heads of state of these countries, notably on European issues.

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 […]

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

Doctoral Programme in Advanced Integrated Microsystems

INL is a partner in the Doctoral programme in Advanced Integrated Microsystems (AIM), together with the Universidade de Lisboa (www.ulisboa.pt) and the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (www.unl.pt). The programme offers advanced research-based training in the design and implementation of miniaturized multifunctional devices and systems fabricated using top-down and bottom-up micro and nanofabrication techniques. These systems will be applied to bioprocessing, biotechnology, biomedicine, pharmaceutical sciences, biosensing for biomedical, environmental and food safety, physical sensing – optical, magnetic, electronic, micromechanical. Detailed information is available here.

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.

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)

INL hosted Spinograph Kick-off meeting and 1st Spinograph School

INL hosted the kick-off meeting for the Spinograph – Spintronics in Graphene project, a Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN) providing state-of-the-art training for early-stage researchers (ESR) and Experienced Researchers (ER) in the field of Spintronics in Graphene. Seven partners from academia, including Nobel laureate Albert Fert, one of the discoverers of giant magnetoresistance, and three from the industry gathered in Braga (Portugal) to launch the 3,9M€ Project funded by the E.U. Marie Curie Actions and coordinated by INL. The kick-off meeting was followed by the first Spinograph School, providing training to the researchers hired through Spinograph as well as to a limited number of external students. Over 20 young researchers had the opportunity to attend lectures and interact with different experts in the fields of spintronics and graphene, coming from top research groups in US, UK, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Portugal. The topics included introductions to the electronic properties of graphene and graphene bilayers, and spin and pseudospin physics in graphene, the theory of Magnetism in graphene edges and defects, experimental techniques to probe magnetism and spin transport in graphene, Spin Hall physics as well as the properties of other two dimensional crystals.