The National Interuniversity Consortium for Materials Science and Technology (INSTM) is a consortium of 52 Italian universities, essentially all those in which research on advanced materials and related technologies is conducted.
The number of afferents, more than 3,000 tenured professors, university researchers, research grant and fellowship holders and PhD students, is constantly increasing.
The Adolphe Merkle Institute (AMI) is a leading independent nanoscience competence center at the University of Fribourg that focuses on interdisciplinary research (polymers, physics, biology, biophysics, and materials) and education in the domain of soft nanomaterials.
