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The big challenge of the little one

CICnanoGune will open its doors to become a benchmark in nanoscience and nanotechnology. Our cameras have visited this facility to know where and how the smallest technology will be investigated.

Today we begin our journey to the smallest component of matter, nanomundura, a journey that we will make with a visit to the CicNanogune research center that will be inaugurated in San Sebastian in two days.

CICnanoGune will open its doors to become a reference in nanoscience and nanotechnology, a goal to which high-level researchers from both the international and the Basque Country will work. Our cameras have visited this facility, where and how the smallest technology will be investigated ezagutzeko.Donostiako The research center CICnanoGune is

located in Avenida de Tolosa, in the campus of the university and near the Technology Park. In this building the smallest components of matter will be investigated, while the research of nanotechnology in the Basque Country hemendik.Esaten will be coordinated. Nanotechnology will be the technological revolution of the 21st century;

it is observed that it will have a great impact, especially in electronics, medicine and new materials. One might think that its only difference from conventional technology is its size, but in reality it has little in common with traditional technology. To understand what nanotechnology is, one must travel into matter. Nanotechnology is much smaller than what our eyes can see. A million times less than a millimeter. Much smaller than cells. In fact, the nanometer is a dimension of a different world in which matter behaves differently. This is the secret of nanotechnology: it allows the manipulation of atoms one by one.

JOSE MARIA PITARKE; CICnanoGune: When we descend to the nano scale it’s not just a matter of miniaturization, it’s not just as it happens in microtechnology. The properties also change: the properties are new, they are new, and the opening of this new framework opens new doors for basic research—because a new world opens up there—and also from a technical point of view, from which different applications can emerge.

Nanotechnology research requires a special building that meets very stringent technical requirements. In fact, in order to guarantee the work of scientists, it is essential to ensure adequate environmental conditions and to avoid any vibration, electromagnetic interference, noise or dirt from the outside. This is how the building was designed. The laboratories will be located in the basement on a concrete slab with a thickness of one and a half meters and an area of one thousand five hundred square meters; the supports of this slab are piles with a geometric positioning to avoid vibrations. The doors and walls between the rooms have also been designed to avoid acoustic and electromagnetic interference.

In this white room, electron nanolithography will be performed, which is the printing that is carried out by emitting electrons, in which an accuracy of up to five nanometers can be obtained. For this, it is necessary to completely control impurities, temperature, humidity and pressure, and the air filtration fans will be constantly working in the corridor teknikoetatik.Gizakiaren hands,

nanotechnology is an incredible tool for the design of chips and very complex tools. In the electronics industry, for example, smaller and smaller chips are being made. Already, electronic circuits of a few nanometers are made: in a very small size, huge amounts of information fit in this way

.JOSE MARIA PITARKE; CICnanoGune: It’s not that “we come up with an app and then we need to improve the technology to get that app.” No; we make the creation of knowledge. And we do not know where the creation of knowledge will lead us: so is research.

The challenge now is to get the nanoscience out of the lab and make it useful to society, with its many applications. Esaterako, merkatuan dagoeneko badaude nanoteknologian oinarriturik dauden produktuak: ura uxatzen duten materialak, superisolatzaileak,urraduren aurkako estaldurak …JOSE

MARIA PITARKE; CICnanoGune: It seems that this will bring new things, and that is why such centers and initiatives are being launched in all parts of the world—or at least in the most advanced parts of the world. And if we don’t want to be left behind, that’s where dugu.Nanoteknologiaren predicts

the greatest growth potential in the world, which is already evident: the market for nanotechnology products and services currently has a volume of $100 billion in the world. The challenge of the little one is great: we will notice the applications of nanotechnology in all areas of life, because there is no sector that will not benefit from this technology.