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Istituto Nanoscienze

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

ADVANCING FRONTIER RESEARCH AT THE NANOSCALE

An interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to nanoscience and nanotechnology at the frontier of basic and applied research. The emphasis in research is on cutting-edge experimental techniques and modelling tools, novel concepts, and close collaboration with academia.

Hunting for excitonic insulators

January 12, 2022

Cnr Nano researchers report evidence compatible with the long sought excitonic insulator in a monolayer two-dimensional material, WTe2. Their result, just published in Nature Physics, has been cited in a News and Views article focusing on topological excitons.

Ready for a new series of Nano Colloquia!

December 28, 2021

The 2022 first semester series of our Nano Colloquia is now planned. 13 lectures by our young researchers established to provide a platform for the exchange of knowledge and ideas.

MaX Centre of Excellence presents its booklet on online training on codes

December 22, 2021

The European Centre of Excellence in materials modelling, simulations and desing, coordinated by Cnr Nano, just published its booklet on online training on codes that resumes all the online events organized in 2021.

Women, Research, Transformations

Start date

January 21, 2022

The Associazione Donne e Scienza (Women and Science) organizes its annual conference to discuss the important changes in the relationship between women, research and society. The event is organized in collaboration with Cnr Nano.

Openness as a resource: Accessing new quantum states with dissipation

Start date

January 31, 2022

The agenda of this workshop is to address the following question: How can we grasp new class of quantum states by tuning dissipative mechanisms and simultaneously pushing quantum systems out of equilibrium?