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The Kroto Innovation Centre is a £2M incubator facility, delivering technology acceleration, innovation and incubation programmes to start-up and existing businesses.
It is at the heart of North Campus - one of Europe's largest multidisciplinary research facilities - and keeps Sheffield at the forefront of research in emerging technologies, nanotechnology, and the convergence of the physical and biological sciences.
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- Conference Scheduled June 5-7 on Safe Use of Nanotechnology in Environmental Remediation
An increasing number of hazardous waste disposal sites are using nanotechnology and nanomaterials in their environmental remediation efforts, leaving open questions about the safety of such techniques... - Heinrich Rohrer dies at 79; a father of nanotechnology: With IBM colleague Gerd Binnig, Rohrer invented the scanning tunneling microscope, which can show individual atoms on a surface and move them around
The electron microscope revolutionized biology in the 1930s by providing magnifications thousands of times higher than that of light microscopes, allowing scientists to discern the inner workings of c...
Latest news
- Innovation Centres "graduate company" continues to grow
Magnomatics growth continues with new contracts totalling £15M - Siemens open Wind Power Research Centre
Cover of Siemens Wind Power Opening Day on Monday 14th December - Product development under the microscope?
Product development under the microscope? - Biotech start-up set to become world-leader in "Drug Interaction Profiling"
Exciting start up could attracting interest of big Pharma
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Sheffield awarded National Centre contract
A cutting-edge University of Sheffield research facility, which studies advances in semiconductors used in the internet, solar cells, DVD players and gas detection, has received a £10 million renewal contract, enabling academic experts throughout the UK to continue making technological breakthroughs. EPSRC National Centre for III-V Technologies, based in the University´s Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, is set to benefit from the cash over the next five years, to support research in III-V semiconductor materials and devices, which play a fundamental role in many of the technologies which transform everyday life. EPSRC National Centre for IIIV Technologies at Sheffield. The Centre has grown considerably from very modest facilities. It acts as a centre of excellence, with its primary role to supply a wide range of well characterised, state-of-the-art III-V epitaxial layers and a comprehensive range of prototype device fabrication services.
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