Nanoscience

deals with phenomena and properties that are characteristic of the nanosize regime. These may range from quantum size effects in semiconductors to localized surface plasmons or Coulomb blockade in metals, through a whole variety of exciting new effects that are characteristic of nanoscale materials. Nanocrystals are the basic units of Nanoscience and are often utilized as building blocks for the construction of nanostructured materials. These topics are advancing at an extremely fast rate and it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with the most recent and exciting discoveries.

NaNaX 5

is the fifth international conference specifically dedicated to discuss and share the most recent findings related to Nanoscience with Nanocrystals. Topics will include the fabrication of nanocrystals, the observation of novel phenomena, the assembly of nanocrystal building blocks, individual and collective properties, as well as applications arising from such novel materials and phenomena.

NaNax 5 will be organised by Luis Liz Marzan, Jesus de la Fuente and Wolfgang Parak

History of NaNaX
NaNaX was started in 2004 in Munich, Germany and was organized by Jochen Feldmann, Hermann Gaub, Wolfgang Parak, and Andrey Rogach. The series continued with NaNaX 2 which was held in 2006 in Grenoble, France and which had been organized by Peter Reiss and Andrey Rogach. NaNaX 3 took place in 2008 in Lecce, Italy and was organize by Roman Krahne, Liberato Manna, and Wolfgang Parak. The previous conference NaNaX 4 was in 2010 again in Munich, Germany, and was organized by Jochen Feldmann, Peter Reiss, and Andrey Rogach.

Sattelite meetings
NaNaX has a history of combining the general conference with sattelite meetings. NaNaX 1 was joint by the SFB 486 Manipulation of Mater at the Nanoscale programme from the German Research Foundation (DFG), headed by Hermann Gaub. NaNaX 3 was involving the project SA-Nano financed by the European Commission which was headed by Liberato Manna. NaNaX 4 included the Nanoinitiave Munich (NIM) founded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) with Jochen Feldmann as chairman. The present conference Nanax 5 will be joint by the Marie Curie Initial Training Network 'Herodot' funded by the European Commission and chaired by Daniel Vanmaekelbergh and Wilfried van Sark, the European Commission project Nanognostics, headed by Niko Hildebrandt, and by Dendreamers which is founded by the European Commission and headed by Jose L. Serrano.