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automotive or medical remote monitoring can be ex- pected, courtesy of the e-BRAINS research results. By way of example, as a result of heterogeneous integra- tion with other subsystems, an intelligent gas sensor in the car will need only a thousandth of its original volume, while its efficiency will increase 20-fold and it will cost only a fraction of the original price.
The e-BRAINS project aims at sharpening the com- petitive edge of European companies by addressing a large variety of applications as medical, security and safety. The 19 technology partners of the research project are manufacturers with European production sites, Universities and Research institutes in Germa- ny, Norway, Austria, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Poland, Belgium and the UK. Infineon is responsible for the overall coordination of the e-BRAINS activi- ties.
The research project is scheduled for completion at the end of 2013. The total budget is approximate- ly 15.8 million Euros, of which 5.8 million Euros is financed by the partners from industry and research.
http://www.e-brains.org Red Light From Carbon Nanotubes
Launch of the Fourth Call for Proposals to EUMINAfab
The European Research Infrastructure EUMINAfab aims at facilitating the access to micro- and nano- technologies for small and medium-sized enterprises. Nine European research institutions have joined a virtual scientific infrastructure facility, offering the
The researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw contributed recently to the development of a relatively simple method allowing the nanotubes exposed to UV to emit red light.
The researchers involved in the international FINELUMEN project, coordinated by Dr. Nicola Armaroli from Italy’s Istituto per la Sintesi Orga-
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