Avi Blizovsky
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About five million dollars were invested in innovative and advanced equipment intended to be used by the new nanocharacterization unit that will be inaugurated today, Monday, November 3, at the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The opening ceremony, which will be held today at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the Edmond Y. Safra campus in Givat Ram, will also mark the opening of a three-day conference on "Science and Applications of Nanostructures". The conference was sponsored by the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology of the Hebrew University and will be attended by leading scientists from Israel and abroad.
Prof. Oded Milo, the current chairman of the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, said today that the nanocharacterization unit - funded by the Research and Development Application Company of the Hebrew University and the Yeshaya Horowitz Association - has advanced equipment for performing nanometric analyzes of a wide variety of materials. Prof. Milo added that researchers from the fields of chemistry, physics and life sciences, as well as industry representatives, use the unit's services extensively.
Prof. Amir Sa'ar, head of the nanocharacterization unit, adds and says that "the equipment includes the latest versions of scanning electron microscopes that allow the examination and characterization of electronic and chemical structures with a resolution on a nanometer scale."
Avi Barak, CEO of the Research and Development Application Company - a company whose goal is to preserve, promote and commercialize the research at the Hebrew University - said that the industry in its various fields is currently showing great interest in the new developments in the nano field. Companies like IBM, General Electric, Intel, Samsung, Sony and other electronics giants are all working on the miniaturization of technologies. In recent years, an application company has managed to register a number of achievements in the nano field and to promote projects that have received great interest and financial support from the industry.
Barak believes that the nanocharacterization unit, being a service center for both scientists and industry, will be a catalyst for increased collaborations and fruitful interactions between academia and industry.
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