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Happy Holidays

🎄✨ We wish you happy holidays and a good start to a healthy, peaceful and happy new year!   Many thanks to all members and partners in our network. Thanks to your commitment, the SNI can perform research and services at the highest level,…
Title page December 2024

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SNI INSight December 2024

At the end of the year, there is a new issue of SNI INSight full of information about research by SNI members and activities of the last few months. It starts with an interview about the AI AlphaFold, whose developers have just been…
* Images that won the Nano Image Award

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Congratulations to the winners!

The nano and micro world is simply fascinating and beautiful! The winning images of this year’s Nano Image Award showcase this in an impressive way.  Congratulations to the winners and a big thank you to everyone who shared their view of…

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Nanostructures for better implants

Researchers from the SNI network investigated how nanostructured titanium surfaces can improve dental implants. The interdisciplinary team investigated the viability of osteoblasts and fibroblasts and controlled how different bacterial…

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A very special gingerbread house!

Raise the drawbridge! Who will come out of your gingerbread house? And take part in the raffle! We're giving away 14 of the mechanics for your gingerbread house dreams. If you want to bake and tinker with a gingerbread house with…
Researchers have created two types of synthetic protocells that can communicate with each other. (Image created with DALL-E by University of Basel)

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Synthetic cells emulate natural cellular communication

A research team from the University of Basel has succeeded in synthesizing simple, environmentally sensitive cells complete with artificial organelles. For the first time, the researchers have also been able to emulate natural cell-cell…

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Global Science Film Festival

Yesterday our short video about the invention of the AFM (Atomic Force Microscopy) was shown at the Global Science Film Festival in Basel! 🎥 We are proud that our contribution was screened at this inspiring festival - especially in…

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NanoTec Apéro 2024

On 30th October, the Swiss Nanoscience Institute's well-attended NanoTec Apéro took place at Park Innovaare. The event offered the approximately 70 participants an ideal opportunity to learn more about the applied research projects in the…
Magnetic field dependence of a strained chromium sulfur bromide ribbon

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Reversal of magnetism through stretching

Ribbons of the two-dimensional semiconductor chromium sulfur bromide (CrSBr) change their magnetization when stretched. Researchers from the SNI network recently published in the scientific journal Nano Letters how they selectively stretch…
Scheme of the experimental setup

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Strong coupling between Andreev qubits mediated by a microwave resonator

Physicists from the University of Basel have succeeded in coupling two Andreev qubits coherently over a macroscopic distance for the first time. They achieved this with the help of microwave photons generated in a narrow superconducting…