nanoGUNE, the Basque Nanoscience Cooperative Research Center
Our mission is to carry out world-class nanoscience research for the competitive growth of the Basque Country.
Nanoscience is science at a very small scale: the nanoscale, ranging from 0.1 to 100 nanometers. A nanometer is one-millionth of a millimeter. The behavior of matter at the nanoscale is very special and scientists from very diverse disciplines are nowadays studing all these phenomena.
Our research is mainly focused on Quantum Nanoscience, Nanomaterials and Nanomedicine.
Research
State-of-the-art facilities
The nanoGUNE infrastructure is designed to fabricate nanoscale materials and characterize their properties on the nanometer scale and with sufficiently high sensitivity. Since the opening in 2009, new facilities have been fitted out and renewed progressively, including a 300 m2 cleanroom, electron microscopy laboratory, nanooptics laboratories, nanobio facilities, and advanced characterization and nanofabrication equipment.
CRYO Plasma FIB instrument, a new exciting tool, one of a few in Europe, reinforced the Basque Electron Microscopy infrastructure in 2024.
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SOMMa 2025: scientific excellence management comes to Donostia
Over 70 project management heads from centers accredited with the Severo Ochoa and María de Maeztu seals of excellence will be participating in this meeting. The meeting is being organized by the Basque Center on… Read more
NanoGUNE starts building the Quantum Tower
The Basque nanoscience and nanotechnology research center is reinforcing its commitment to quantum technologies with this 1,500 m²–expansion dedicated to the development of silicon-based quantum chips. The Quantum Tower… Read more
