Nokia and Cambridge Uni team up to research nanotechnology

The two research supremos have joined forces to use their combined brain power in the area of nanotechnology.



Experts from Nokia and the University of Cambridge have teamed up to work on long-term joint research projects, initially focusing on nanotechnology.
The mobile device giant's Nokia Research Centre (NRC) plans to set up a research facility, initially staffed by 10 people, on the university's west Cambridge campus and work closely with several academic departments.
The Nokia/Cambridge partnership is the third such alliance the mobile giant has formed in the past 18 months and aims to put the companies' collective brain power to good use to solve real world challenges using technology.
"Cambridge and Nokia share a common belief in the ability of nanotechnology to deliver products and applications of tangible value to people," said Professor Mark Welland, director of the Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) in Nanotechnology at Cambridge.
"The fact that we also share a common commitment to the responsible introduction of nanotechnology into the public arena adds a further unique dimension to this collaboration."
Dr. Tapani Ryhanen, who leads Nokia's global nanotechnology research efforts and will play the same role in the Cambridge union, added: "Nanotechnology long ago left science fiction movies for the laboratory and, more recently, we saw the first commercial applications.
"The techniques we are developing really bring us a toolkit for working with the processes of nature at a very basic level - the level of molecules - in a safe and controlled way."