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Happy Holidays
We wish you happy holidays and a good start to an healthy, peaceful and prosperous 2024! In our short video, we show the Moiré effect, in which a new pattern with a larger period is created by superimposing two regular patterns of a…
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SNI INSight December 2023
A new issue of our electronic magazine SNI INSight is now online. Learn more about activities within our network and get an insight into the fascinating world of nanoscience./ News, Portraits
Who are the women in the nanosciences? Géraldine Guex, Professor for Oral Implantology at UZB
Géraldine Guex started studying nanosciences at the University of Basel 20 years ago. Now, as Straumann Assistant Professor at the University Center of Dental Medicine Basel (UZB), she is a new member of the SNI network. In the short video,…
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SNSF Starting Grant for Jonathan de Roo
The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has awarded another six Starting Grants to University of Basel researchers. The projects come from the fields of biomedicine, chemistry, environmental sciences history and urban studies. One of…
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Investigation of “magic” graphene
Researchers from the SNI network have used an atomic force microscope in pendulum mode to study a two-layer graphene device. In this bilayer graphene, the two layers of pure carbon were rotated by the “magic angle” of approximately 1.1°…
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Better classification with machine learning
Researchers from the SNI network have introduced a new machine learning technique specifically designed to enhance the analysis of protein unfolding using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) data. The team of Prof. Michael Nash (University of…
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Nano Image Award 2023
The winners of the Nano Image Award 2023 have been selected! Congratulations! And many thanks to everyone who submitted beautiful images of the micro and nano world to the Nano Image Award 2023!/ News, Portraits
Who are the women in nanoscience? Tamara Utzinger, University of Basel
Tamara Utzinger would definitely study nanosciences again, she tells us in an interview. She particularly liked the family atmosphere and the diversity of the program. She has just completed her Master's degree in nanosciences with a…
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Dominik Zumbühl elected American Physical Society Fellow for 2023
Prof. Dr. Dominik Zumbühl, SNI member and director of the NCCR Spin, receives the award “For quantum transport experiments in semiconductor nanostructures at low temperatures studying coherence, spins, and spin-orbit coupling including…