University of Copenhagen speeds up nanotechnology

Great perspectives for cooperations between the business world and the University when Minister for the Environment Connie Hedegaard opens new research division at the Nano-Science Center on Friday 30 March.

Environmental nanotechnology

The use of nanotechnology today is almost without limits. High-speed computers and improved materials that we use every day are just a few advancements of the technology.

The time has come to use nanotechnology for purposes that are increasingly important for the development of society and thus of interest to the Danish business community and product development.

For instance the handling of refuse-problems, securing clean drinking water, and developing new methods of extracting oil from e.g. the North Sea.

NanoGeoScience

University of Copenhagen’s Nano-Science Center has been expanded to include a number of brand-new research projects encompassing the above three themes. The group behind the new research area, NanoGeoScience, consists of 30-40 researchers, engineers and students.

The new division has received DKK 25.5 million from the High-Technology Foundation for a project ”to yield more oil from the lime”, which builds on basic research and the possibility of optimising oil extraction in the North Sea.

Since 2001, the University of Copenhagen’s Nano-Science Center has received app. DKK 250 million in funding from the EU and a number of public and private funds.

Official opening

Minister for the Environment Connie Hedegaard participates in the opening of the new division at the Nano-Science Center on Friday.

The press is welcomed at the opening on Friday 30 March from 14:15-17:00 at the Nano-Science Center.

University of Copenhagen
Universitetsparken 5
2100 København Ø.

More information: Susan Stipp, mobile phone:24 65 41 14
Head of centre, Professor Thomas Bjørnholm, phone: 35321835.

Posted 29 March 2007