Helsinki University of Technology

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Email addresses in HUT: firstname.surname@helsinki.fi

Department of Automation and Systems Technology

• Microsystems and nanotechnology

Department of Chemical Technology

• Applications of ALD technology

• Coated magnetic nanoparticles
• Controlling surface energy and surface oxidation of small particles
• Supramolecular self-assembly of interfacial nanostructures

• Targeted organic synthesis
• Synthesis of structurally complex natural products
• Development of novel syntesis technologies
• Development of organometallic and organocatalytic chemistry for Green Chemistry applications
• Chemical biology: Understanding chemical recognition at molecular level: biological and artificial functions

• Polymer reaction engineering, polymerization catalysis
• Polymer blends and compatibilization
• Synthesis of biopolymers, bioactive composites

• Catalysts; preparation and characterization
• Tailoring of the surfaces of porous materials with the ALD technique

Department of Materials Science and Rock Engineering

• Nano-Silicon technology

• Processing of inorganic catalysts and composites

Department of Forest Products Technology

• Cellulose-based nanofibres and their functionalization

Department of Electrical and Communications Engineering

• Theoretical and computational study of nanomaterials and structures (http://www.lce.hut.fi/research/atomic/)
• Computational modelling of nano- and microsystems (http://www.lce.hut.fi/research/nanotech/)
• Theoretical and computational study of nanometerscale biostructures and processes (http://www.lce.hut.fi/research/polymer/)

• Semiconductor nanotechnology (Prof. Harri Lipsanen)
• Self-assembled nanostructures (Prof. Harri Lipsanen)
• Optoelectronics (Prof. Markku Sopanen)

• Silicon-based optoelectronics (Prof. Juha Sinkkonen)
• Silicon-based optoelectronics (Prof. Pekka Kuivalainen)
  • (Ga, Mn)As-based spintronics
  • Room temperature spintronics

Metrology Research Institute
http://metrology.hut.fi/cgi-bin/index.cgi

• Microtechnologies (Prof. Ilkka Tittonen)

• Microfabrication, microfluid components (Dr. Sami Franssila)

Department of Engineering Physics and Mathematics

• Computational Condensed Matter and Complex Materials Group (COMP) (Prof. Risto Nieminen)
• Experimental physics group (Prof. Pekka Hautojärvi)

• Production, processing and characterization of carbon nanotubes and nanoparticles

Laboratory of Optics and Molecular Materials
http://omm.hut.fi/

• Functional polymeric materials based on hierarchical self-assembly and supramolecular concepts
• Porous materials, electro- and photoactive polymers externally controllable properties, electrospun nanofibers

• Near-field optics and atom optics

Low Temperature Laboratory

Nano Group
(Prof. Pertti Hakonen)
http://boojum.hut.fi/nano/

• Fluctuations and noise in mesoscopic systems
• Quantum amplifiers
• Single Josephson junctions in electromagnetic environment
• Carbon nanotubes

• Quantized charge transport
• Electron cooling and non-equilibrium effects
• Macroscopic quantum tunnelling
• Noise and counting statistics in mesoscopic structures