Nanosystems Initiative Munich

The role nano structures play in information technology and in life
sciences is growing continuously. While many individual building
blocks in the nanometer sector have been developed in the past few
years, relatively little is known to date about how these
components are integrated in complex systems. It is therefore one
of the principal objectives of the Nanosystems Initiative (NIM) to
create a broad range of artificial and multifunctional nanosystems,
to understand the way they function and ultimately to control them.
This is the only way to ensure their use in information technology
and in life sciences. In a total of 10 sub-areas the focus ranges,
for example, from quantum phenomena in nanosystems to
"lab-on-a-chip" applications. NIM brings together scientists of
international repute from various research facilities in Munich and
different disciplines such as physics, biophysics, physical
chemistry, biochemistry, pharmaceutics, biology, electrical
engineering and medicine to form one unique research association.
NIM has been established within the scope of the Excellence
Initiative, a Germany-wide competition to promote top-level
university research.