UMK Day 2010 attracted some 80 researchers from Aalto University and also some representatives from our collaborators to Micronova on April 22 to find out the recent research outcomes in Materials Science in Aalto University as well as to understand the challenges of making inventions presented by UMK researcher's and innovation developer's.






Most of the presentations can be found at the end of this piece of news.




The audience had the possibility to vote for the best pitcing - the best research selling talk. All the six ten minute talks were well prepared and inspiring. Dr. Hele Savin from the Electron Physics Group won the competition with the presentation on "Removal of Light Induced Degradation in Silicon", and received a black box which she will share with her group members.







Professor Olli Ikkala had the honour to choose the best poster among 30 posters shown at the poster exhibition. The winning poster was Päivi Törmä's and her group's poster on "High Speed Carbon Nanotube Memory Elements". The group received a white box for winning the competition.

A lively discussion was going on during the Spanish way buffet and poster session. The main message from the participants was that Aalto's research groups need more UMK Day like networking events. The first UMK Day was arranged in spring 2009. UMK Day will be again organized in spring 2011.


PRESENTATIONS OF THE UMK DAY 2010

Welcoming words
Runar Törnqvist, Director, UMK Center for New Materials

Research Strategy of Aalto University
Heikki Mannila, Vice President of Academic Affairs - Research and Education,
Aalto University

New Bioactive Material and Professor´s Vsion to Inventions
Jukka Seppälä, Professor, Department of Biotechnology and Chemical
Winner of the Material Technology Award 2009

Material Research and Inventions from an Entrepreuner´s Point of View
Jukka Kolehmainen, Managing Director, Diarc - Shortly introduced by Runar Törnqvist in the absence of Jukka Kolehmainen

More Valuable Inventions from Academic Research?
Matti Kuusisto, Senior Consultant, Spinverse, www.spinverse.fi

Pitching of important research results within UMK, which contain elements of inventions and potential for commercial utilization - Best pitch will be awarded!

• Large-Area, Lightweight and Thick Biomimetic Composites with Superior Material Properties via Fast, Economic, and Green Pathways, Dr. Anders Walther, Molecular Materials Group, Aalto University - Presented by Professor Olli Ikkala in the absence of Dr. Walther

• Removal of Light Induced Degradation in Silicon, Dr. Hele Savin, Docent in Electron Physics Group, Aalto University - PRESENTATION NOT AVAILABLE

• Droplet Control on Smart Surfaces , Dr. Lauri Sainiemi, Microfabrication Group, Aalto University

• Inhalable Drug Powders of Premium Performance, Dr. Janne Raula, Senior Research Fellow, Teicos Pharma, www.teicospharma.com

• Towards Industrial Preparation of Monodisperse Cobalt Nanoparticles
Christoffer Johans, Postdoctoral researcher, Physical Chemistry, Aalto University

• Glass Embedded Ag-nanoparticles for Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering
Ya Chen, Research Scientis, Photonics Group, Aalto University

UMK Center for New Materials has 32 members from twelve Departments and all four Faculties in the Aalto University School of Science and Technology. See the member list: http://www.umk.fi/en/activities_members.html