Our work is grounded in a deep tradition of materials physics, strengthened by active international collaborations. We focus on the interplay between material building blocks to advance fundamental science and translate it into breakthrough functional innovations.

IRC NANO is pioneering a new paradigm in materials science – one built on the convergence of two fundamental states of matter: hard-bonded material systems, typically crystalline, with interatomic bond energies above 1 eV, and soft-bonded systems, where interatomic and intermolecular forces fall below 0.1 eV.