Under the leadership of the Max Planck Institute for Metal Research in Stuttgart, 800 world-leading material scientists and engineers identified research trends and requirements in their contributions to the study.

We will only be able to meet the great challenges of our time – climate protection, future power supplies, the fight against illness and disease – if we bundle our forces in research more intensively and jointly engage in the search for the solutions that are so urgently needed. Nanomaterials, in particular, can play an important role in shaping our future. They supply building blocks for new technologies, thus enabling sustainable power supply concepts and transport systems, efficient health care and new information technologies. The creation of a European strategy for nanoknowledge and nanotechnologies that encompasses all the relevant scientific disciplines and involves not only universities and non-university research institutes but also partners from industry would be an important step towards the development of such tailor-made nanomaterials.

The GENNESYS study is a milestone in the nanosciences and nanotechnologies. Under the leadership of the Max Planck Institute for Metal Research in Stuttgart, scientists from different backgrounds and representatives of diverse branches of industry got together with the operators of European research infrastructures in order to draw up this reference document, which shows the direction that needs to be taken in the coming decades. In their contributions to the study, 800 world-leading material scientists and engineers identify research trends and requirements. And they indicate the challenges that we have to master so that Europe can maintain and expand its leading global position in the nanosciences and nanotechnologies.

GENNESYS shows that key technologies can come up with path-breaking innovations, whereby a decisive role is played by the European research infrastructure with its neutron-based and accelerator-based X-ray sources. Its unique analytical potential makes a new strategy for sustained growth in Europe possible.

Further information at:

http://www.mf.mpg.de/mpg/websiteMetallforschung/veroeffentlichungen/GENNESYS/index.html

Source: Federal Ministry of Education and Research