DAS-NANO SL

Their core work

DAS-NANO SL is a Spanish deep-tech SME specializing in nano-scale sensing and inspection technologies, with demonstrated capability in both advanced materials characterization and industrial energy applications. Their early work centered on graphene and thin film inspection systems — the kind of precision optical or surface-analysis tools used in quality control for advanced materials manufacturing. By 2018 they had pivoted this sensor expertise toward the wind energy sector, developing a solution aimed at one of wind power's core engineering problems — most likely structural health monitoring, blade condition assessment, or vibration/fatigue sensing using nano-enabled transducers. Operating exclusively through the EU SME Instrument, they function as an independent technology developer rather than a subcontractor, taking full ownership of their R&D roadmap.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

DAS-NANO began their H2020 journey as a materials-inspection company, focusing on graphene and thin film characterization — a niche within advanced manufacturing quality control. By their second project they had made a significant sectoral leap into renewable energy, specifically wind power, suggesting their core inspection or sensing technology found a compelling application in monitoring wind turbine components. This trajectory — nano-instrumentation to energy infrastructure — is consistent with a company that built a platform technology and then searched for the highest-value industrial problem it could solve.

DAS-NANO appears to be moving from materials-science instrumentation toward applied energy technology, suggesting future work will likely remain in renewables or industrial monitoring rather than returning to pure materials characterization.

How they like to work

DAS-NANO exclusively leads projects — both H2020 grants were coordinated by them with no recorded consortium partners, which is characteristic of the SME Instrument design where a single company drives its own innovation agenda. This means they are not experienced consortium builders or network hubs; they operate as self-sufficient technology developers. A partner should expect to work with them as a customer, licensee, or integration partner rather than as a co-developer in a multi-partner consortium.

DAS-NANO's recorded H2020 network is effectively zero — no external consortium partners appear in the data, consistent with sole-beneficiary SME Instrument grants. Their collaboration footprint is entirely self-contained within their own company.

What sets them apart

DAS-NANO occupies an unusual niche as a nano-instrumentation company that successfully transitioned its technology into the wind energy sector, a combination rare among Spanish SMEs. Their ability to win a EUR 1.4M Phase 2 SME Instrument grant — one of the most competitive EU funding mechanisms — signals that their wind power solution was assessed as commercially viable by independent evaluators. For a consortium or business partner, they bring proprietary deep-tech with validated market potential rather than generic R&D services.

Highlights from their portfolio

• NOTUS
  At EUR 1.4M under the highly competitive SME Instrument Phase 2, NOTUS represents a fully validated commercial-stage technology aimed at solving a structural challenge in wind power — the largest and most credentialed project in their portfolio.
• ONYX
  As their first H2020 project, ONYX established DAS-NANO's technical identity — graphene and thin film inspection — and laid the instrumentation foundation that appears to underpin their later wind energy work.