Junior Nanotech Network (JNN)

The aim of the Junior Nanotech Network (JNN) is to exchange knowledge about world class nanoscience and nanobioscience between graduate students from different institutions wordwide. This network has been organized in 2006 and 2008 by junior nanoscientists from CeNS (Munich) together with their partners from McGill University (Montréal). The about 20 participants at each exchange were preselected based on excellence and compatibility of the proposed projects.

The JNN project takes advantage of local expertise and facilities and aims at initiating interchange between junior nano-researchers Germany and partner institutions abroad, linking the research efforts in the field of nanoscience of the two universities and fostering the interaction between the partnering countries.

In June 2006 the project started with a 3-weeks-visit of PhD students from CeNS in Montreal where they attended courses on nanosciences (1 week) and performed lab work under the guidance of their local partners (2 weeks). During this time, various experiments ranging from Ultra High Vacuum Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) to the synthesis of nanocrystals were carried out. In autumn 2006, the exchange students from Montréal came to Munich for hands-on experiments at CeNS labs and one week of lectures at the CeNS workshop "Emerging Nanosystems - From Quantum Manipulation to Nanobiomachines" in Venice.

In 2008, the successful JNN project was repeated with a new generation of PhD students from CeNS and McGill University, following the same organizational scheme as in 2006.

The JNN projects in 2006 and 2008 were financially supported by the cooperation "Bayern-Québec", hosted at the Bayerisch-Französisches Hochschulzentrum (BFHZ).

More information

JNN report 2008 (7 MB)
JNN report 2006 (3 MB)
JNN Poster - german (2 MB)