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Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Romania

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In spite of difficult working conditions and with very low financial support, many groups from Romania are involved in emerging fields, such as the nanoscale science and technology. Until the last years, this activity was developed without a central coordination and without many interactions between these research groups. In the year 2000, some of the institutes and universities active in the nanotechnology field in Romania founded the MICRONANOTECH network. The aim of this paper is to emphasize the main activities and results of the Romanian groups working in this novel domain. Most of the groups are deal with the nanomaterial technology and only few of them have activities in nanostructure science and engineering, in new concepts and device modeling and technology. This paper describes the nanotechnology research development in two of the most significant institutes from Romania: Centre for Nanotechnologies from National Institute for Research and Development in Microtehnologies (IMT-Bucharest) and from National Institute for Research and Development in Materials Physics (INCD-FM), Magurele. The Romanian research results in nanotechnology field were presented in numerous papers presented in international conferences or published in national and international journals. They are also presented in patents, international awards and fellowships. The research effort and financial support are outlined. Some future trends of the Romanian nanoscale science and technology research are also described.

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  1. National Institute for Research and Development in Microtehnologies (IMT-Bucharest), Str. Erou Iancu Nicolae 32B, 72996, Bucharest, Romania

    Dan Dascalu

  2. University ‘Politehnica’ of Bucharest Splaiul Independentei 313, 77206, Romania

    Dan Dascalu

  3. Development in Materials Physics (INCD-FM), National Institute for Research and, Str. Atomistilor 105 bis, Bucharest-Magurele, P.O. Box MG-7, 76900, Romania

    Vladimir Topa

  4. Centre for Nanotechnologies, National Institute for Research and Development in Microtehnologies (IMT-Bucharest), Str. Erou Iancu Nicolae 32B, 72996, Bucharest, Romania

    Irina Kleps

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Dascalu, D., Topa, V. & Kleps, I. Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Romania. Journal of Nanoparticle Research 3, 343–352 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012555023738

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