The SNI lights a candle every Sunday in Advent. Each candle features one of the many experiments we have put together. If you recognize which experiment it stands for, enter our raffle. You might even win a powerbank and a little surprise. https://nanoscience.ch/de/ueber-uns/raetsel/ Did you find the moving cookies? Take a look at our other exciting […]

The winter issue of our electronic magazine SNI INSight is now online. The first part of this issue of SNI INSight is devoted entirely to enzymes – not the ones we find in the natural world, but the artificial enzymes promising to unlock new avenues for molecular synthesis studied by the research group under Thomas […]

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As part of a project at the SNI PhD School, Fabian Züger, Anna Marsano, Martino Poggio, and Maurizio Gullo have published a review paper on nanocomposites for tissue engineering. They summarize in Advanced NanoBioMed Research how conductive nanocomposites are currently used for the preparation of printable, electrophysiological tissues. In his PhD project, Fabian Züger focuses […]

University of Basel news: Solar energy plays an important role in the fight against climate change as a substitute for fossil fuels. Dye-sensitized solar cells promise to be a low-cost supplement to the photovoltaic systems we know today. Their key feature is the dye sensitizers attached to their surface. Researchers at the University of Basel […]

Dr. h.c. Peter Reimann, a long-time employee of the Department of Physics and the SNI, passed away unexpectedly on November 1, 2021. Peter had been employed at the Department of Physics at the University of Basel for more than 37 years, where he headed the Technology & Safety Group. He was an enthusiastic researcher and […]

After a short introduction to the work of the SNI and Omya, all participants were given an exciting guided tour of the Omya labs. The company mainly produces calcium carbonate and is researching a wide range of new applications for customers from very different sectors in excellently equipped laboratories. In the Nano-Argovia project KOKORO, for […]

Every year,  SNI members meet for their annual event in Lenzerheide. In 2021, the event was special because we were able to meet in person again after a long break. During the event, Prof. Dr. Henning Stahlberg (EPFL) was appointed as SNI honorary member. He has been very committed to nanoscience in general and to […]

The summer issue of our electronic magazine “SNI INSight” has been published. The main topic of this issue is nanomedicine. In addition, there are numerous news about the SNI. Enjoy browsing through it! Online version

University of Basel researchers have reached an important milestone in their quest to produce more sustainable luminescent materials and catalysts for converting sunlight into other forms of energy. Based on the cheap metal manganese, they have developed a new class of compounds with promising properties that until now have primarily been found in noble metal […]