News
2 year Research Fellow position is available within the NANOMAT project. The announcement can be found here.
Dr Arturas Ulcinas has filled the first Research Fellow position made available within EU FP7 NANOMAT project. Arturas re-joins RCMN after four years at Professor Mervyn Miles group at University of Bristol and will continue to work on developing novel SPM methods and instrumentation.
RCMN has been awarded FP7 project NANOMAT (coordinator Professor Valentinas Snitka) aiming to build research capacity at RCMN and create a European Centre of Excellence in Nanostructured Materials. Project involves twinning partnerships with three leading European research institutions: Centre of Nanoscience and Quantum Information, University of Bristol, Micro and Nanosciences Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, and National Centre for Microelectronics, Barcelona. More about the project.
Overview
The Research Centre for Microsystems and Nanotechnology was established in 1998 to act as a base for interdisciplinary research into microsystems and nano-instrumentation through which new ideas for improved performance based on new materials and miniatiurization may be brought into industrial practice as innovations.
The Centre aims to stimulate nanoscience and microsystems technology activity in Lithuania and Baltic region by participating in European and global networks, research projects and by dissemination of information. The Centre coordinates Lithuanian Nanoscience and Nanotechnology network, National research priorities program "Functional materials and molecular mechanisms", has been a partner of EU FP6 projects Micro-NanoSystems European Network pursuing the integration of NMS and ACC in ERA, Improving the understanding of the impact of the nanoparticles on human health and environment, and recipient of NATO security programme grant "Optical nanosensors based on organic nanofibres". The RC Microsystems and Nanotechnology (RCMN) provides excellent imaging capabilities at KTU, with focus on soft matter nanoscale imaging. The RCMN anchors efforts to investigate the behaviour of single molecules and nanostructures, with an applications to nanomedicine, biology and materials science.
RCMN positions itself as a highly multidisciplinary institute working in overlapping fields of medicine, measurement and materials science, and engineering disciplines, and integrated into interdisciplinary campus, national and international networks. The RCMN, located in the KTU campus, provides researchers with state-of-the-art single molecule imaging and nanoscale characterization and manipulation tools, such as multi-cell and single cell electroporation and impedance measurement instrumentation, Scanning Near Field Optical Microscopy, wide-field single molecule fluorescence microscopy and photon counting, Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, a BioAFM (combined atomic force and optical microscopy), magnetic force and Kelvin probe microscopy, SPM nanolitography, and UV-VIS spectroscopy. Part of RCMN's objective is not only to provide cutting-edge technology and expertise in nanoscale imaging, but also to develop next generation techniques in this rapidly growing area.
RCMN focus includes the broad areas of:
- New SPM methods and development of next generation nanoscale imaging probes and instrumentation
- Biomimetics for nanomaterials and nanosensors
- Bionanotechnology and subcellular imaging
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