About CeNTech

The Center for Nanotechnology (CeNTech) provides the infrastructure for direct and interdisciplinary collaborations involving faculties of the University of Münster (chemistry, physics, biology and medicine). Research at CeNTech keeps a strong relation to technological applications and shall result in patents for new nanotechnology based inventions which can be developed up to the product level.

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October 2019 - News & Press

Professor Fuchs highly awarded in China

For many years of scientific cooperation with China, Prof. Harald Fuchs received the "Chinese Government Friendship Award". Thus, the physicist of the University of Münster and CeNTech director is honored with the highest award, which the Chinese government awards to foreign experts - this year there are 100 award winners from 31 countries.

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September 2019 - News & Press

Step towards light-based, brain-like computing chip

CeNTech researcher Prof. Pernice and his colleagues from Oxford and Exeter (UK) developed a light-based hardware which can store and process information in a similar way to the human brain. The scientists managed to produce a chip containing network of artificial neurons that works with light and can imitate the behaviour of neurons and their synapses. The study was published in the NATURE journal.

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June 18, 2019 - News & Press

MATMED Management Meeting at CeNTech

The second management meeting of the NMW Interreg project MATMED took place at CeNTech (June 17/18 2019). Dr. Holger Winter (CeNTech) and Monique Bruns from the network Gesundheitswirtschaft Münsterland e.V. welcomed representatives from England, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands and Aachen in Münster. MATMED is funded by the EU as part of the structural and investment policy and supports the commercialization of advanced materials within the medical sector.

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