ICN2 - official website www.icn2.cat - is an independent non-profit research organisation (with the legal status of a Private Foundation) based in Barcelona (Spain).

It is funded by the Regional government of Catalonia and the Spanish Research Council (CSIC). Its core activities are:

• Frontier Basic and Applied Research in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
• Technology Transfer
• Public Outreach.

ICN2's main research fields include:

• Biosensing and Bioelectronics
• Chemical Synthesis of Nanostructures
• Materials at the Nanoscale, Microscopy (AFM, SEM, TEM, STM, etc.)
• Nanoelectronics
• Nanofabrication (FIB) & Nanolithography
• Nanomagnetism
• Phononics and Photonics
• Theory and Simulation
• Spectroscopy (Raman, XRD, XPS, etc.)
• Spintronics
• Surface Properties.

Our research involves a wide variety of materials:

• Biomolecules (DNA, RNA, proteins, etc.)
• arbon nanotubes
• Graphene
• Ferroics
• Inorganic nanoparticles
• Inorganic thin films
• Metal-organic frameworks
• Organic polymers and O/I hybrids
• Semiconductors
• Thermoelectric materials
• Topological insulators.

ICN2 role in NFFA Europe:

ICN2 provides access to Growth and Synthesis; Theory and Simulation; Characterisation

ICN2 contributes to Joint Research on In-Operando and high throughput methods