Wednesday, June 19th 2013, 13:00 - 17:30h, FHI, Leusden

Where do we find the right technology partner?
Pick up the technology for your company's future!

You are invited for the 'MicroNano 4FutureProfit' on Wednesday, June 19th to meet and network with innovation partners, OEMs and development companies. This event is organised in cooperation with NanoNextNL (see Cooperation).

During this afternoon, we aim to close the gap between requests for technology solutions and technology innovation and supply in the fields of microsystem and nano technology. The MinacNed members, all high tech companies and institutes among the fields of lab-on-a-chip, microfluidics, nano instrumentation, MEMS, sensors, deposition technology, nano coatings and more expose themselves, show their new development or products and build innovative leads with their knowledge and expertise. Dutch companies, from high-tech manufacturing industry, OEMs, first tier suppliers and especially the underlying links, who are searching for development capacity and innovation partners, are welcome to this inspiring afternoon.

Using a newly developed microscope, researchers at the FOM Institute AMOLF, King's College (London) and ICFO (Barcelona) have succeeded in imaging light at the true nanoscale. Normally the resolution of an optical microscope is limited by Abbe's law of diffraction, but the researchers were able to break this limit using a new technique 'angle-dependent cathodoluminescence imaging spectroscopy', which was developed and refined at AMOLF. The researchers used this technique to probe the inside of a photonic crystal and study the confinement of light with a spatial resolution more than ten times smaller than the diffraction limit for light. The angle-resolved cathodoluminescence imaging spectroscopy instrument is being commercialized by the start-up company Delmic, and will appear on the market in the fall of 2012.

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Tracking photocatalytic reactions can be done extremely accurate using an AFM microscope, whose needle also serves as a catalyst. For instance, this gives insight in efficient conversion of solar energy into solar fuel. At present, production of solar fuels is not economically viable, mainly due to lack of knowledge of the reaction mechanism. To picture that mechanism, Prof. Bert Weckhuysen and colleagues have developed the technique TERS: ‘tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy’.

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The government is willing to strengthen top sectors in which the Netherlands excels worldwide. Included are the top sectors Life Science, Agrofood and Horticulture. To achieve this, government, industry, universities and research centres cooperate in knowledge and innovation.

The agreements are recorded in innovation contracts, which were finalized last April 2012. These contracts contain actions, plans and agreements to reinforce the nine top sectors over the next years.

Calls concerning Responsible Innovation and Biobased Economy will be opened within the next months.
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Three German research institutes are keen to do business with Dutch technology companies and institutes. These German institutes are IMTEK (Department of Microsystems Engineering) in Freiburg, KIST (The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Europe) and Frauenhofer IMBT (Institute for Biomedical Engineering), both in Saarbrücken.

In spring 2013, the MinacNed businesscluster MicrofluidicsNL and TWA, Technical Scientific Attaché of the Dutch embassy in Berlin, are organizing a two-day microfluidic stronghold trip to these institutes for a group of Dutch companies and institutes.