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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Breaking Ohm’s Law: Nonlinear Currents Emerge in Symmetry-Broken Materials
The Nanodevices group at CIC nanoGUNE shows that breaking a material’s inversion symmetry can shatter Ohm’s law, unleashing powerful nonlinear phenomena. Their review, just published in… Read more
MindSens, early detection of Alzheimer’s with a drop of blood
MindSens wins the III Global Graphene Call with a breakthrough dementia diagnostic device: a portable, accurate, and affordable home-use diagnostic tool that could bring early dementia detection into homes and clinics around the world. The… Read more
