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The Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology (Institut Català de Nanotecnologia, ICN) is a non-profit research institute that was created in 2003 by the Spanish regional government (Generalitat) of Catalonia and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) to foster cutting-edge research in nanoscience and nanotechnology. It is located on the Bellaterra campus near Barcelona (50.000 students). Together with a local node of the Spanish research council CSIC it forms the Centre for research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CIN2, around 170 members). As of March 2011 ICN has 114 staff members representing 27 nationalities of which 83 are full-time researchers. The research fields cover new material properties resulting from their aggregation at the nanometre-scale, the development of methods for nanofabrication, growth, analysis, characterisation and manipulation of aggregates and structures of nanometric dimension, nanoelectronics, NEMS, spintronics, nanophotonics and nanophononics. ICN has recently set up a Nanofabrication Division, which will be fully operational in 2011-2012. Other Divisions are Electron Microscopy and Nanoscience Instrument Development. It is also establishing an associated Centre for Nanobiosecurity and Sustainability, which houses its nanometrology activities.
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http://www.icn.cat/
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