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Completely enthusiastic, surprised and eager to return, the 4th year students of the Juan Bautista Durán School visited the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CEDENNA).

After an introductory talk to the nano world, given by our CEDENNA researcher and Leader of the Nanosafety Laboratory, Dr. Mauricio Escudey, the students took an unforgettable tour of the Nanosafety, Nanoniomedicine, Nanomagnetism, Packaging and Electronic Microscopy laboratories, achieving way, create a huge link between students and nanotechnology.

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On Wednesday, October 11, in a hybrid public session, the Chilean Academy of Sciences welcomed Dr. Alejandro Valdivia, CEDENNA researcher and Full Professor in the Department of Physics of the University of Chile, as a corresponding member.

• Researchers from both institutions are already working together on the characterization and identification of rare earths, a project that they hope will obtain funding from Fondef.

Strengthening collaboration with different institutions that carry out cutting-edge research and technology is one of the objectives of the collaboration agreement signed between the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center Foundation (CEDENNA) and the Bernardo O “Higgins University (UBO).

On Friday, October 6, 30 3rd and 4th grade students from Colegio San Miguel de los Andes visited us. After a welcome and introductory talk about the nano world, given by the Director of CEDENNA, Dr. Juan Escrig, the students took a tour of different laboratories of the center, including Nanomedicine, Electronic Microscopy, Nanomagnetism, Packaging and Nanosafety.

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• On Saturday, October 7, visitors will be able to become scientists for a few minutes and make their own nanoparticles, at the stand of the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, CEDENNA.

With diverse and colorful experiences that include materials such as magic sands, balloons, aromas and microscopes, the stand of the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CEDENNA) has aroused special interest among students who visit the "Futurists, the Circus of Science" mounted in the Pueblito de Las Vizcachas, within the framework of the different activities ca

On September 28, the Exhibition "Images of the Nanoworld" was inaugurated at the Saucache Campus Library (Arica) of the University of Tarapacá (UTA), which brings together 12 images of nanoparticles of various materials, captured through electron microscopy by researchers from the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Center, CEDENNA, who then applied color and textures to amaze us with the beautiful photographs that give life to this original exhibition.

“Nanotechnology made in Chile” is the name of the talk given by the executive director of the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Dr. Juan Escrig Murúa, to students and academics from the University of Tarapacá (Arica), within the framework of his visit to the campus for the inauguration of the exhibition “Images of the Nanoworld” carried out by our research center and which the northern university house will host until October 15.

The clinical potential of his research on “Paralyzing shellfish toxins resulting from harmful algal blooms (red tide)” was addressed by Dr. Nelson Lagos in the talk he offered to researchers, academics and students in the REMS Research Centers Building Auditorium, from the University of Santiago.

With the objective of providing fundamentals of numerical simulations, developing skills in the use of molecular dynamics software and applying different techniques in practical problems at a basic and advanced level in science and engineering, on October 24 and 25 the “Workshop of Molecular Dynamics: Bringing Theory to Experiment”,

On Tuesday, September 5, 43 students from 1st to 4th grade from the San Pedro Poveda School in Maipú visited us.

After a welcome and introductory talk about the nano world, given by Dr. Mauricio Escudey, leader of CEDENNA's Nanosafety Line, the students took a tour of different laboratories at the center, including Nanomedicine, Electronic Microscopy, Nanomagnetism , Packaging, Nanosafety and Plant Biotechnology.