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Professor Sushanta Mitra, Executive Director of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN), received the prestigious Hind Rattan Award (Jewel of India) from the non-resident persons of Indian origin (NRI) Welfare Society of India on February 21^st. The Hind Rattan Award is one of the highest Indian diasporic awards.

“It is a great honour to be recognized by the NRI Welfare Society of India. It is a truly humbling experience,” said Dr. Mitra.

Today Dr. Sushanta Mitra, Executive Director of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN), officially signed a new funding agreement between WIN and Mitacs Inc. The research mobility program between WIN and selected Indian Institutes of Technology will provide research funding for up to five outbound and 10 inbound students.   

UW hires former AVP Research as new Executive Director of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN)

The University of Waterloo conducted a global search with the help of Odgers Berndtson to appoint the next Executive Director for the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN).

Interim WIN Director Dr. Kleinke (right) says good-bye and thanks to Wojciech Wegner, Ph.D. student from Warsaw (left).

Professor Zongwei Chen, Director of Collaborative Graduate Program in Nanotechnology and Canada Research Chair in Advanced Materials for Clean Energy, will be co-developing a new kind of lithium-ion battery that may be on the market in three to four years. It will be safer and cheaper than contemporary Li+ batteries and will allow an electric car to travel up to 500 km on a single charge.

Newtech Power Inc. has granted Dr. Chen $3 million in funding to further his work.

“I am pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Holger Kleinke as Interim Executive Director, WIN, for a one-year term beginning September 8, 2016,” wrote Vice-President, University Research D. George Dixon in a memo circulated last week.

University of Waterloo nanotechnology startup Suncayr has been named a James Dyson Award International Runner up for their innovative marker that signals users when it's time to reapply sunscreen.

Dr Raffi Budakian, an internationally renowned physicist, was awarded the University of Waterloo Endowed Chair in Nanotechnology in Superconductivity in Waterloo's Department of Physics and Astronomy in July 2014.

His research focuses on the development of experimental tools for ultra sensitive detection of electron and nuclear spins for applications in research programs ranging from biology to quantum information.

The state-of-the-art QNC MBE facility was formally inaugurated on June 4th, 2014. The facility houses a Veeco GEN10 MBE system that enables the production of nanomaterials such as sophisticated III/V semiconductors for devices of the future. The facility will support research programs in photonics to quantum computing.

Nano 101

Tiny titans – the future is nano

By Patricia Bow, University of Waterloo Magazine

Nanotechnology. It’s so hot it sizzles. Even distinguished scientists discussing the potential impact of this new technology sound like excited children on Christmas morning.

"Nanotechnology has given us the tools to play with the ultimate toy box of nature–atoms and molecules," says Nobel laureate Horst Stormer.

Everything is made from it. The possibilities to create new things appear limitless.