Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon
Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon
Overview
The Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon (INA) is an interdisciplinary research institute located in the “Campus Río Ebro” at the University of Zaragoza (Spain).
INA is dedicated to R&D in nanoscience and nanotechnology. Its activities are based on manufacturing and processing micro and nanoscaled structures (10-6 m and 10-9 m respectively) and studying their applications, in collaboration with companies and technological institutes from different areas and countries.
INA has high-level experts of different disciplines: Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Biochemistry and Medicine, which allows the Institute to perform a multidisciplinary research using all branches of knowledge to address nanoscience. Almost 140 researchers (67PhDs and 18 qualified technicians) work at INA. In addition, there is a Transfer and Promotion Office that supports the R&D activity. The goal of this office is to forge links between companies and the Institute.
Mission and Vision of INA
The mission of the Institute of… Located within INA is the Advanced Microscopy Laboratory, LMA.
LMA is a unique initiative at national and international levels aimed at providing the Industrial and Scientific communities with the most advanced infrastructures in Nanofabrication, Local Probe and Electron Microscopy for the observation, characterization, nanopatterning and handling of materials at atomic and molecular scale.
All LMA instruments and the expertise of the scientists and technical staff involved are offered to researchers from other public and private research centers and also to professionals from industrial sectors at national and international levels.
The available infrastructures at LMA are divided in the following areas:
Dual Beam, SEM, XPS, and XRD areas
Infrastructures:
Cryogenic Dual Beam Nova 200
Dual Beam Helios Nanolab 600 and 650
Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope SEM-Quanta FEG 250, ESEM
Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope CSEM-FEG INSPECT 50
XRD: Bruker D8 Advance High…. INA-LMA offers its instruments and support to different industrial sectors. Some of the most representative industrial sectors for which LMA performs a variety of microscopic and analytical services are the followings:
Biotechnology, Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Industry
Characterization of functionalized nanoparticles.
Characterization of different types of biomaterials and biological samples.
Characterization of the plasmonic behavior for optical applications in biotechnology.
Contamination and particle identification. Particle sizing. Surface and interface analysis.
Chemical composition and structure of C/N/O based samples.
Shape memory alloys: brackets for dental and stents for medical applications.
Chemical Industry
Characterization of new materials.
Contaminant particle identification.
Characterization of nanopaints, adhesives and general coatings for a wide variety of industrial applications.
Characterization of thin films and surface…. Yes. service.