2. N S CN S C Nanoscience Center www.jyu.fi/nanoscience Nanoscience Center NSC was established 2004. Today it houses 14 professors and 150 researchers from the fields of biology, chemistry and physics. Jyväskylä London Paris Berlin Madrid Rome Athens FINLAND

3. N S CN S C Nanoscience Center www.jyu.fi/nanoscience FACULTY OF MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE Chemistry Physics Biological and Environmental Science NSC Steering group Scientific advisory board Industrial advisory board

4. N S CN S C Nanoscience Center www.jyu.fi/nanoscience Dynamics of nano-objects by using ultrafast spectroscopy Spectroscopic investigations of individual nano-objects Prof. Janne Ihalainen Dr. Andreas Johansson Prof. Mika Pettersson Dr. Jussi Toppari Spectroscopy of nanostructures

5. N S CN S C Nanoscience Center www.jyu.fi/nanoscience Organic Nanochemistry Prof. Maija Nissinen Prof. Petri Pihko Prof. Kari Rissanen Supramolecular synthetic and structural chemistry Nanoparticles and supramolecular systems in catalysis

6. N S CN S C Nanoscience Center www.jyu.fi/nanoscience Theoretical Nanoscience Nanostructures Nanocatalysis Modeling and simulations of materials and processes Quantum control and dynamics Transport of heat and electricity Dr. Gerrit Groenhof Prof. Tero Heikkilä Dr. Karoliina Honkala Prof. Hannu Häkkinen Dr. Pekka Koskinen Prof. Robert van Leeuwen Prof. Jussi Timonen

7. N S CN S C Nanoscience Center www.jyu.fi/nanoscience Experimental nanophysics Low-temperature physics and development of ultra-sensitive detection Fabrication and modification of nano and micro structures Quantum and molecular electronics, and plasmonics Prof. Markus Ahlskog Dr. Konstantin Arutyunov Prof. Ilari Maasilta Dr. Timo Sajavaara Dr. Jussi Toppari

8. N S CN S C Nanoscience Center www.jyu.fi/nanoscience Biological nanostructures Structural virology, evolution and functioning of viruses in animal cells Biological imaging, protein structures and interactions Analysis of cellular structures Prof. Jaana Bamford Dr. Leona Gilbert Prof. Janne Ihalainen Dr. Varpu Marjomäki Dr. Olli Pentikäinen Prof. Jussi Timonen Dr. Maija Vihinen-Ranta Prof. Jari Ylänne

9. N S CN S C Nanoscience Center www.jyu.fi/nanoscience Instrumentation for Production Atomic layer deposition (ALD) 3D laserlithography Electron beam lithography equipment (EBL) UV mask aligner Vacuum evaporators, HV and UHV Chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) Langmuir-Blodgett growth (LB) Reactive ion etching (RIE) Modeling and Visualization FGI-cluster, 672 CPU cores

10. N S CN S C Nanoscience Center www.jyu.fi/nanoscience Instrumentation for Characterization Scanning electron microscopes (SEM, SEM+EDS) Atomic force microscopes (AFM): standard, environmental Near-field optical microscope (SNOM) Transmission electron microscopes (TEM) Confocal microscopes X-ray microtomography (best resolution 50 nm) Single crystal X-ray diffraction NMR spectroscopy equipment Optical spectrometers (IR, vis-UV, CD, Raman, fluoresc.) Nano and femtosecond lasers (UV to IR, 20 fs) Cryo and vacuum instrumentation Ion beam analysis tools for elemental depth profiling (down to nm depth resolution)

11. N S CN S C Nanoscience Center www.jyu.fi/nanoscience Business co-operation at the NSC We offer services and solutions in the fields of: Analysis and characterization Applied R&D projects Fabrication of nanostructures Thesis projects (BSc, MSc)

12. N S CN S C Nanoscience Center www.jyu.fi/nanoscience Multidisciplinary Nanoscience Curriculum Objective is to give students strong education and a broad view about natural sciences  National graduate school in nanoscience, NGS-NANO, for PhD students  International Master’s Programme in Nanoscience  Bachelors degree in nanoscience

13. N S CN S C Nanoscience Center www.jyu.fi/nanoscience Studies in nanoscience Nanoscience BSc students have a major and two minors: physics, physical chemistry, organic chemistry, cell and molecular biology NSC has special nanoscience courses. MSc theses are prepared on cross-disciplinary topics Curriculum provides students a large toolbox of knowledge in natural science to serve science, industry and public sector

14. N S CN S C Nanoscience Center www.jyu.fi/nanoscience Publications Publications have appeared in international high- level peer-reviewed journals such as Nature, Nature Communications, Angewandte Chemie, Physical Review Letters, Nano Letters… # Publications/year # Citations/year

15. N S CN S C Nanoscience Center www.jyu.fi/nanoscience Research highlights: international cooperation Portable ultrasensitive superconducting X-ray spectrometer by prof. Ilari Maasilta and Dr. Kimmo Kinnunen How the gut gets its villi – Computational modelling by Dr. Tuomas Tallinen

16. N S CN S C Nanoscience Center www.jyu.fi/nanoscience Research highlights by NSC A new method to label enteroviruses with functionalized gold nanoclusters providing new tools for bioimaging  new information on virus trafficking in cells and tissues as well as on the mechanisms of virus opening inside cells  the method is expected to be useful for developing new antiviral vaccines based on virus-like particles.  Dr. T. Lahtinen, Dr. K. Salorinne, J. Koivisto, prof. M. Pettersson (Chemistry), prof. H. Häkkinen (chemistry/physics), Dr. S. Malola (physics), M. Martikainen and FT V. Marjomäki (biology)

17. N S CN S C Nanoscience Center www.jyu.fi/nanoscience Annual Events Nanoscience Days, October –High level speakers present new results, trends and perspectives in the field of nanoscience Business Day, March –Brings together researchers, students and business interested in nanosciences

18. N S CN S C Nanoscience Center www.jyu.fi/nanoscience Unique platform – 10-year Anniversary The cross-disciplinary approach with our modern research infrastructure has proved to be a successful idea and has resulted in top level research ranging from fundamental theory to commercial solutions