CENTRO DI COMPETENZE SULLE NANOTECNOLOGIE
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The NEST Competence Centre on nanotechnologies (CCNEST) was funded in 2010 by the local government of the Tuscan region on a Scuola Normale Superiore proposal, as a service centre for local small and medium enterprises (SME).
It uses state-of-the-art instrumentation within a class ISO 6 clean room and it is located within the NEST laboratory of the Scuola Normale Superiore.
The NEST laboratory, the National Enterprise for nanoscience and Nanotechnology, is an interdisciplinary research and training centre for nanoscience where physicists, chemists and biologists (about 150 people) investigate scientific issues at the nanoscale.
This knowledge is exploited to develop innovative nanobiotechnological tools, nanoelectronic and photonic devices and architectures.
The NEST initiative comprises four distinct institutions: Scuola Normale Superiore, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. Although each institution has its own staff and administration (Laboratorio NEST of SNS, Centre for Nanotechnology Innovation of IIT, the Istituto Nanoscienze of CNR, and Nanoplant of SSSA) facilities and activities are closely coordinated and scientists team up for specific scientific objectives regardless of their affiliation.
Collaboration with SME at the NEST Competence Centre (CCNEST) is obtained through research contracts on nanoscience and nanotechnology topics. The synergy of the CCNEST with the NEST laboratory allows for the exploitation of both the skills of their technical-scientific staff and the equipment and tools available, and to put them at the service of the enterprise that wants to innovate.
