Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center

In 2002, Professor of Physics Flemming Besenbacher founded the iNANO Center and in January 2002, the Danish Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Helge Sander, inaugurated the center, stressing the central role of advanced new technologies based on nanoscience in modern-day value creation.

[1] The iNANO center was established with the aim of fostering interdisciplinary research within the area of nanoscience and nanotechnology, i.e. promote synergistic interactions that cross traditional scientific boundaries.

iNANO provides a framework in which leading-edge expertise in physics, chemistry, molecular biology, biology, engineering and medicine are combined to create an interdisciplinary environment of international stature with regards to science and technology, and a regional and national power hub for enhancing industrial competitiveness.

[2][3] The educational programme in nanoscience consists of an interdisciplinary curriculum covering a broad spectrum of introductory, advanced, and specialized courses, which aim at providing the students with a sufficiently broad basis to conduct interdisciplinary research within nanoscience and at the same time achieve disciplinary depth and specialized skills in selected areas.

Since the official inauguration in 2002 iNANO has played an important role in setting up an increasing number of interdisciplinary projects.