On Wednesday 1th October 2014 the annual NanoDay of the Laboratory of Nano and Quantum Engineering took place in Hanover/Germany. In eight lectures and a poster session the latest research results from the interdisciplinary working groups in the field of nanotechnology were presented. The Poster prizes funded by Leibniz Universitätsgesellschaft e. V. were awarded this year to:

• „Silicone as Implant Material for the Application in the Middle Ear: Incorporation of Functionalized Nanoporous Silica Nanoparticles“
  Tanja Heemeier^1*, Mandy Jahns^1*, Songül Noyun^1*, Laura Doniga-Crivat², Silke Besdo², Peter Behrens^1*
  * Cluster of Excellence Hearing4all
  1 Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
  2 Institute for Continuum Mechanics, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany

• "Measuring spatially resolved transport on epitaxial graphene"
  F. Edler¹, C. Neumann², C. Stampfer², S. Forti³, U. Starke³ and C. Tegenkamp¹
  1 Institut für Festkörperphysik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Appelstraße 2, 30167 Hannover, Germany
  2 JARA-FIT and II. Institute of Physics A, RWTH Aachen University, 52074 Aachen, Germany
  3 Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstraße 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany

• „PL of strained Ge-layers at Room Temperature“
  A. Grimm^1,2, A. Katiyar³, S. K. Ray³, H. J. Osten^1,2,4 and T. F. Wietler^1,2,4
  1 Institut für Materialien und Bauelemente der Elektronik
  2 Hannover School for Nanotechnology
  3 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
  4 Laboratorium für Nano- und Quantenengineering

Congratulations and thank you to all lecturers and participants of the NanoDay 2014!

Lectures: Leibniz Universität Hannover, Appelstr. 4, 30167 Hanover, multimedia lecture hall, technical computer science (Building 3703)

Poster Session: Leibniz Universität Hannover, Schneiderberg 39, 30167 Hannover, Foyer, Laboratory of Nano and Quantum Engineering (Building 3430)

09:15 Greetings

09:15 - 10:45 Session I (in the multimedia lecture hall)

• “Tailoring titanium nanoparticles for photocatalysis“
  Armin Feldhoff
  Institut für Physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie 
• “Magnetic beads – Basics and Applications”
  Christine Ruffert
  Institut für Mikroproduktionstechnik
• “Tuning of disorder in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum wells”
  Eddy Patrick Rugeramigabo
  Institut für Festkörperphysik, Abteilung Nanostrukturen

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 - 12:15  Session II

• “Atominterferometer on chips“
  Ernst Rasel
  Institute of Quantum Optics & Centre for Quantum Engineering and Space-Time Research (QUEST)
• "Multi-scale modeling of biofilm growth"
  Meisam Soleimani
  MARIO - Multifunctional Active and Reactive Interfaces and Surfaces

12:20 Conference photo

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 - 15:00 Poster Session (in the LNQE research building)

15:00 – 15:15 Award ceremony of the poster prize (in the multimedia lecture hall)

15:15 – 16:45 Session III

• "Surface transport in strongly spin polarized systems"
  Philipp Kröger
  Institut für Festkörperphysik, Abteilung Atomare und Molekulare Strukturen
• “Ion implantation of elemental boron and boric molecules for silicon solar cells”
  Jan Krügener
  Institut für Materialien und Bauelemente der Elektronik
• "Understanding adsorption in Zr-organic frameworks: A computational study"
  Sebastian Lilienthal
  Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Arbeitskreis Behrens

Follow-up: Get-together in the LNQE-research building to conclude the NanoDay 2014.