NANOC was created within LABEIN-Tecnalia, in 2002. It was conceived as a platform aimed at developing key technological capacities that will enable the Construction Industry to use Nanotechnology as a competitive tool.

As part of  TECNALIA Construction and as a Unit Associated to the CSIC, the NANOC team aims to generate knowledge in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology targeted towards the development of novel knowledge-based high performance materials for the construction sector.

NANOC mainly focuses on the generation of knowledge and on the exploitation of the resulting Intellectual Property Rigths (IPR), by securing patents and undertaking their licensing and other actions related to their commercialisation

NANOC´s main research objectives are:

  1. Development of ultra high performance materials for the Construction Sector
  2. Understanding of materials nano/microstructure. Nano-macro connection
  3. Multi-scale modelling and computational design of materials

Research staff in this team hold PhDs in a range of different disciplines.