Why Study Nanoscience and Nanotechnology?
Because you will become a multi-disciplinary
- the new study program "Masters of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" is a response to a large industrial demand for an academic-level degree that embraces more than one highly-specialized scientific discipline. The study leads to mastery of general principles in physics, biology and chemistry that play a role on the nanometer scale, insight into the materials and experimental techniques that can be used on the nanoscale and their limitations as well as skills in the field of theoretical analysis, simulation, and modeling;
- capable of understanding a wide variety of problems and able to formulate these at an abstract, academic level; able to integrate knowledge from separate scientific disciplines; able to generate a personal and independent opinion and to communicate this opinion;
- nanoscience will soon have an impact on virtually all technology sectors and ultimately on many aspects of our daily life. Research in nanotechnologies will lead to new developments in areas such as healthcare, food and environmental research, information technology, security, new materials and energy production and storage;
- by knowledge of the basic sciences as well as of the technologies and engineering aspects of their implementation;
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Analysts estimate that the market for nanotech-related products
is currently around 2.5 billion € but could rise to hundreds of billions
of € by 2010 and one trillion thereafter.*
With the prospect of obtaining greater performance with fewer raw materials, nanotechnology has the potential to reduce waste across the whole life-cycle of products, Thus it can contribute towards realising sustainable development and to the goals addressed in the European Union's "Agenda 21" and the Environmental Technology Action Plan.
