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EU-Projects
Toxic Acids // Tissue Engineering //
New Solvent Technologies to Replace Use of Harmful Toxic Acids MAGISTER Project Meeting
A
t the end of November 2009, the project The project can already come up with substantial
members of the EU project MAGISTER – progress regarding tissue engineering: For example,
MAGnetIc Scaffold for in vivo Tissue EngineeRing – the lattice substances developed by the involved
met at Research Center Dresden-Rossendorf (FZD), company FIN-CERAMICA are already in the test
Germany. The 20 research partners come from 10 phase.
European countries. The Institute for Nanostructured
Materials Studies CNR in Bologna, Italy, coordinates Contact: Dr. Thomas Herrmannsdörfer, Research Center
the project. It is funded EUR8.2 million. Dresden-Rossendorf (FZD), High Magnetic Field Labora-
tory Dresden, Germany, Phone: +49 (0)351-260 3320:
http://www.magister-project.eu
Penning Trap //
Highly Charged Ion Trapping and Laser Spectroscopy
P
hysicists from the HITRAP project designed a The use of laser spectroscopy and the cooling of
set-up for studying Highly charged ions (HCIs). HCIs in Penning traps have helped to provide
The ions, such as hydrogen-like lead and lithium-like valuable insights for scientists. Physicists now have a
bismuth, were trapped and cooled, and measured much better understanding of how ions behave when
using laser spectrometry. The HCIs were trapped, confined in traps and subject to excitation by qua-
cooled and compressed into a small dense cloud in a drupole fields.
Penning trap. The trap was designed to give excellent
fluorescent rates, with the intention of measuring Contact: Richard Thompson, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial
ground state hyperfine splitting in the HCIs, using College London, U.K., Phone: +44-207-5947505:
laser spectroscopy. The researchers aimed to achie- http://qols.ph.ic.ac.uk/~rct/
ve an extremely high level of accuracy that would
be three orders of magnitude better than previous
results.
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