Nanomagnetism

Nanomagnetism is a technology related area (data storage) with great potential in the science of materials. The activity of the network shall, based on basic research, generate impulses towards possible commercial applications. Through enhanced applied research local companies of different areas (electronic devices, semiconductors, sensor devices) shall be motivated to diffuse research results into practical applications.

Main research activities include:

• Magnetic alloys with memory effects
• Nano-porous materials, which have electrical changeable magnetic properties induced through fillings of ion-conductive fluids
• Magnetostrictive materials, whose efficiency can be enhanced by nano-structuring
• Ferrofluides for the use in mechanical engineering (i.e. magnetic bearing)
• Magnetic nanoparticles in medical technology for applications in cancer therapy and in magnetic resonance tomography