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The Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology focuses on theoretical, experimental and computational research in Condensed Matter Physics and applications. The majority of its members are professors of the Department of Physics of the University of Crete, a leading, research oriented Department in Greece. The Center aims at advancing individual and collective research, perform collabo ...

This program aims to increase our knowledge about the biology and biodiversity of ‘blue diatoms’, unique among microalgae by their ability to produce specific water-soluble bluish pigments. Up to now the terms ‘blue diatoms’ have referred exclusively to the pennate marine diatom Haslea ostrearia, and to its blue pigment, the so-called marennine, a polyphenolic molecule with biological activities, ...