The “International Symposium on Advances in Nanoscience” is the Inaugural Symposium for the new center for nanotechnology and nanomaterials (ZNN) at the TUM in Garching that was officially opened on July, 19th, 2010. After a fast planning phase and only one year of construction, the building is now almost fully operational. It offers 2000 square meters of offices and laboratory space with modern equipment for nanoscientists of various directions.

In the last few months, research groups have moved into the building and now start to work in several exciting areas of nanoscience, as they are also represented by the different sessions of this symposium – Quantum Nanosystems, Hybrid Nanosystems, Nano and Energy, and Bio-Nanoscience. These areas also represent the major research directions of the DFG funded Excellence Cluster “Nanosystems Initiative Munich“ (NIM), where the ZNN researchers are heavily involved.

The ZNN is an extension of the well-known Walter Schottky Institute (WSI) that was founded in Gar­ching over 20 years ago. The extremely successful activities of the WSI led to a continuous demand for more lab and office space, a trend that was considerably reinforced by the success of the Excellence Cluster NIM. This triggered the plan for a new building fully devoted to nanoscience. The concept for the new building was developed by Gerhard Abstreiter (WSI) and co-workers and was jointly funded by the Bavarian State and the Federal Government.

While the main focus of the WSI still lies in semiconductor materials technology, in the ZNN modern nanofabrication techniques and research at the nano/bio interface will be more prominent. The ground floor will host a modern clean room facility for micro- and nanofabrication, and also instrumentation for the characterization of nanomaterials. The first floor is devoted to cutting-edge optical and electronic experiments with solid state nanostructures, but also on hybrid nanosystems. The second floor contains “wet” labs and physical labs for research in bionanotechnology. Thus, the new building will be perfectly suited for internationally competitive, interdisciplinary research in nanoscience.

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