Who are we?
PNU-NanoLab (officially named the Centre for Collective Use of Scientific Equipment ‘Nanotechnology Lab for Materials Science, Energy and Medicine’, but this name is too long) is part of the research infrastructure of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University.
What are the objectives of our work?
#1: Increase the efficiency of research by scientists in Western Ukraine (and beyond) in the field of physical materials science.
#2: Assist state-owned enterprises and businesses in addressing various applied problems.
#3: Facilitate the integration of Ukrainian scientists into the European Research Area by promoting Open Science practices and FAIR principles
How do we work?
- For Material Scientists:
PNU-NanoLab provides access to scientific equipment with opportunities for collaboration at various levels.
To request access, please fill out the form.
The PNU-NanoLab team will review the application and approve the work plan.
The work on scientists’ applications is provided free of charge. A mandatory condition for executing the work is proper acknowledgment of PNU-NanoLab when utilizing the obtained data.
A potential condition is that the data obtained, with the consent of the requesting scientist and while preserving their intellectual property rights, will be stored in the PNU-NanoLab repository, assigned a DOI, and made freely accessible to the scientific community.
There is also the opportunity for collaboration between the requesting scientist and members of the PNU-NanoLab team, resulting in a scientific publication where the team will contribute through data analysis and interpretation.
- For enterprises and businesses:
PNU-NanoLab offers services for determining the elemental and phase composition of material samples, providing a report that includes both the research results and their interpretation based on the technical task set by the customer. For commercial clients, we can address the following questions: ‘What is this?’, ‘How and from what was this object (part, structural element) made?’, and ‘What alternative materials could be used to create the same part (structural element)?’
- Promoting Open Science:
PNU-NanoLab will organise seminars and workshops to promote Open Science practices, the principles of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures, and the opportunities available through the European Open Science Cloud (Follow us for updates!)
What’s next?
In addition to PNU-NanoLab, the PNU research ecosystem in the field of modern materials science will soon include PNU-OpenLab (Advanced Materials Open Science Centre), PNU-FabLab (Laboratory for Prototyping, 3D Printing, and Design), and PNU-SimLab (Laboratory for Materials Modelling).
We are actively working toward becoming a part of the CERIC-ERIC system.