Counting all the ERC projects, since its very beginning, in 2007, Catalunya represents the 3.2 % of all the ERC grants awarded within the European Resarch Area (ERA), and gathers 52 % of the ERC grants ...

This year, the 17th edition of the "Fira Recerca en Directe", organized by the Parc Científic de Barcelona (PCB) in collaboration with Obra Social "la Caixa", will count with the participation of the "Superconduct ...

... er from the near city of Sabadell. "El físic sabadallenc ha aconseguit fons europeus per fer recerca en materials que permetran crear la nova generació de comunicació sense fils." (Núria Jar, Diar ...

... temperature superconducting layers, as stated in their website on December 12, 2018.  Progress in the scale-up of 2G-superconductors using inks Albert Calleja, CEO of Oxolutia, states: “First ...

Martí Gich, ICMAB reseracher at the Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites Group, has been awarded with a prestigious 2018 European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant (CoG) for his project entitled “Ferrites-by-design ...

The following article appeared in the ERC Newsletter on 26 October 2018. It is about the project #LasCientíficasCuentan, which explalins complex science through the voice of fifteen female ERC grantees ...

... manipulation of the superconducting to insulator phase transition in YBa2Cu3O7−δ thin films by electrochemical oxygen doping. Both normal state resistance and the superconducting critical temperature can ...

The Seminars and Training Committee kindly invites you to the following ICMAB Invited Lecture:  High temperature nanostructured superconductors: a tool for new technologies by Joffre GUTIÉRREZ ROYO,Institut ...

On Thursday 11 October 2018, the programme "Els Matins de TV3", directed by Lídia Heredia, interviewed researcher Teresa Puig about the superconducting materials, in their section devoted to science, an ...

Hello! My name is Mercè and I am from Barcelona. I am studying physics at the UAB, and as it is my final year I have to present the final degree project. That's why I will be the whole course in ICMAB workin ...

Watch here the video of the ULTRASUPERTAPE project, the ERC Advanced Grant project awarded to Teresa Puig, explained here in plain words for everyone to understand!  Video produced by FilmoCiencia ...

...  of women scientists who have been awarded with a ERC project during the past years. From the ICMAB, Marta Mas-Torrent (ERC-Starting Grant) and Teresa Puig (ERC-Advanced Grant) participate in the project ...

The Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden – in short IFW Dresden – wants to establish a new Junior Research Group in the field of applied superconductivity. The particular research ...

... Superconductors. This work forms part of a collaborative project funded by EPSRC between the University, the University of Oxford and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. More information: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/17298/ ...

A Palau, F Vallès, V Rouco, M Coll, Z Li, C Pop, B Mundet, J Gàzquez, R Guzman, J Gutierrez, X Obradors and T Puig. Superconductor Science and Technology, Volume 31, Number 3. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6668/aaa65e ...

 The XIX Edition of ExpoRecerca Jove 2018 took place between 22 and 24 March in La Salle, Barcelona. Anna May, from ICMAB, participated as member of the jury of the presented projects by the talented groups ...

Prof. Teresa Puig, from the SUMAN group (Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures) was invited to give a talk on superconducting materials at “Dissabtes de la Física” on Saturday, 24 February ...

On Friday, 16 March 2018, the secondary school INS Mercè Rodoreda (Hospitalet de Llobregat) celebrated their "IV Scientific Day" (IV Jornada Científica) with scientific activities for their students, fro ...

Join the18th International Conference on High Pressure Semiconductor Physics and the 2nd International Workshop on High Pressure Study of Superconductors (HPSP18 & WHS2) , that will be held at CosmoCaixa ...

Coma-ruga-2018 (Sunday, July1-6 2018) will be the 14th Workshop of the series "International Workshop on Magnetism & Superconductivity at the Nanoscale". Topics include all areas of nanomagnetic and superconductin ...

... Article ASAP DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b04406 A comparative study of the electrochemical intercalation of Ca2+ and Mg2+ in layered TiS2 using alkylcarbonate-based electrolytes is reported, and for ...

... Here, it is demonstrated that mercury cations, Hg2+, can be exploited to control doping levels at the top surface of a thin film of a p-type organic semiconductor blended with polystyrene. Electrolyte- ...

... by using neutral electrolytes and advanced cell designs is a promising strategy for the development of greener and safer supercapacitors. However, solvent decomposition and the oxidation of carbon electrodes ...

... as dopants and placed in contact with the organic semiconductor thin film. The results demonstrated that this was due to a favourable energy match between the organic semiconductor and mercury ions. Moreover, ...

... r Obradors and Prof. Teresa Puig explain some of the main features of the project:  "Un dels objectius del projecte és fer passar molt corrent per les cintes superconductores (poden fer passar 100 vega ...

This post features one of the articles published at CORDIS about the EUROTAPES project, which main goal is to develop superconducting tapes to improve energy efficiency in Europe. The SUMAN group, here ...

A large portion of the Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures (SUMAN) group are present at the European Conference of Applied Superconductivity (EUCAS) 2017 that takes place in Geneva ...

Avui, 21 de setembre, s’han reunit els màxims representants del conjunt d’universitats i centres de recerca de Catalunya (una seixantena d’institucions que representen prop del 90 % del sistema) per valorar ...

... Pierluigi Gargiani, Eric Pellegrin, Cesar Magén, Teresa Puig, Xavier Obradors. Adv. Electron. Mater. 2017, 1700037. DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201700037 High Tc superconductor–ferromagnetic heterostructures ...

... this work, the supercritical reactive crystallization route is used for the precipitation of diverse metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). 1D and 2D MOFs were obtained by reacting either bypyridil (two linking ...

The TV program Verd Primera, from betevé, has emitted on May 8th, a short video report on superconducting materials. Teresa Puig, from the "Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures" (SUMAN ...

The XVIII edition of Exporecerca Jove was held on 6, 7, 8 April 2017 at Campus La Salle, in Barcelona. Exporecerca Jove presents research projects from young students, between 12 to 18 years old. The main ...

The UAB-CIE (International Excellence Campus) Sphere celebrated the 10 years of the European Research Council (ERC) with the event “ERC: Challenges and Opportunities”, held at the CRAG Auditorium on March ...

El Consejo Europeo de Investigación (ERC, por sus siglas en inglés) cumplió 10 años el 24 de marzo de 2017. A lo largo de esta década de vida, se ha financiado a unos 7.000 investigadores, permitiendo ...

REGIO7 | 15/03/2017 El coordinador del projecte, Xavier Obradors, ha explicat que Eurotapes és un "projecte europeu de referència de superconductors", resultat de la col·laboració entre el món acadèmi ...

Els resultats d'Eurotapes es van presentar a Barcelona, en una roda de premsa que va comptar amb la participació del coordinador del projecte, Prof. Xavier Obradors; la responsable del departament de superconductivita ...

EL PERIÓDICO, DOMINGO, 12 DE FEBRERO DEL 2017 MICHELE CATANZARO El cambio primordial en un molino superconductor está en el generador. “En lugar de cobre y hierro en su interior hay cintas de segunda generación, ...

• The prototype is the first in the world to be used in medium-power wind turbines. • The use of Superconducting materials simplifies the system obtaining greater reliability and greater efficiency ...

... a les experiències sobretot catalanes (ICREA, programa Serra-Hunter, Doctorats Industrials, Centres CERCA, etc.) i va analitzar les claus de la investigació, així com les limitacions normatives de ser ...

... Puig, Xavier Obradors, Isabel Van Driessche. Advanced Electronic Materials. DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201600161 Although high temperature superconductors are promising for power applications, the production ...

• Three researchers  of the ICMAB-CSIC have achieved the ERC Consolidator Grant, two of them with projects dedicated to electronics and the third one with biomedical applications.  • With these three ...

... Using Superconducting Dots. Adv. Sci., 1600207. doi:10.1002/advs.201600207 A large manifold of nontrivial spin textures, including the stabilization of monopole-like fields, are generated by using ...

Observatori de la Recerca  ...

El premi nobèl de física ha reconegut el treball dels investigadors britànics David Thoules, Duncan Haldane i Michael Kosterlitz per la seva recerca sobre nous estats de la matèria. El premi reconeix ...

Dr. Alexandre Ponrouch from the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant and will receive 1.6 million € over the next five years in order to conduct ...

L'ICMAB es troba entre les institucions que han obtingut un projecte Les institucions catalanes que han obtingut un projecte en la convocatòria 2016 són les següents: – Barcelona Supercomputing Center ...

... Fe3+-based MOFs was attempted in this study by using a binary medium consisting of supercritical CO2 mixed with an ionic liquid (emimBF4 or emimBr). In comparison with conventional solvothermal and ionothermal ...

Research on superconductivity is showing promising results that will not only lead to the development of electrical highways across Europe, but also to higher energy efficiency and reduction of costs for ...

Ahir 25 d'abril es va celebrar una nova edició de “Cafè amb la Recerca”. Xavier Obradors, director de l’ICMAB-CSIC, va presentar l’oferta d’investigació de l'ICMAB davant directius de les empreses Cels ...

Barcelona, 22 d’abril de 2016.  L’Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), acollirà el pròxim dilluns 25 d’abril (16.30 h, Campus de la UAB; Bellaterra) un nou “Cafè amb la Recerca”, ...

... particularly in the presence of strong correlations. A paradigmatic case is the high-temperature superconductor YBa2Cu3O7-δ (Y123), in which nanoscale defects play an important role as they can immobilize ...

Hasta ahora se pensaba que la superconductividad y el magnetismo eran fenómenos excluyentes, pero investigadores del Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona y del Sincrotrón ALBA han encontrado ...

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Ciències experimentals i tecnologia: a Teresa Puig i Xavier Obradors "pel descobriment d’un procediment de producció de materials superconductors assequible i industrialitzable, basat en la cristal·litzaci ...

... October 2015, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.134510   We have studied the superconducting state of 2H−NbSe2 by scanning tunneling spectroscopy along two different crystal orientations, ...

... el Parc de Recerca UAB. Nuevo material para detectores de objetos lejanos El proyecto OISensing ha obtenido el segundo premio, dotado con 1.500 euros y tres meses de incubación en el edificio Eureka. ...

Pere Alemany and Enric Canadell; Inorg. Chem., 2015, 54 (16), pp 8029–8034 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b01207 The electronic structure of a new family of superconductors is examined through density ...

... (superconductor-insulator-superconductor tunneling spectra) and theoretical (density functional theory) study of the two-gap superconductor MgB2 is reported. The calculations confirm that the small gap ...

... using an eco-efficient method is reported here. This method is based exclusively on using supercritical CO2 as a solvent, without the addition of any other additive or co-solvent. Neutral acetylacetonate ...

The project is entitled “Ultrafast growth of ultrahigh performance superconducting tapes (ULTRASUPERTAPE)” and has been granted under the Panel PE8 “Products and Processing Engineering”.An unprecedented ...

El CSIC está presente en la edición 2015 del Saló de l’Ensenyament, con un estand ubicado en el ‘Espai Ciència’, una de las áreas especificas del Salón con la que se pretende acercar la investigación ...

Dr. Mariano Campoy-Quiles, from the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), has been awarded a 2014 ERC - Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council. His project is ...

... interface between LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 is the oxide quantum well (QW) par excellence, where superconductivity and magnetism emerge. In LaAlO3/SrTiO3 QWs electrons move in two dimensions forming a two-dimensional ...

La necessària multidisciplinarietat en les activitats de recerca i la importància de portar a terme una major promoció de l’R+D realitzada als centres científics entre el sector privat, van ser alguns ...

Dilluns 17 de novembre de 2014 Els nanomaterials de la tercera revolució industrial Xavier Obradors Totes les conferències tindran lloc a dos quarts de set del vespre, a la Sala d’Actes de ...

...  Council (ERC). This ‘top-up’ funding is designed to help researchers who already hold an ERC grant, to test the market potential of their frontier research. Links: | Proof of Concept 2014  | CSIC  ...

La Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació (FCRi) us convida el proper 30 de setembre, a les 17.00 hores, a la sessió "Cafè amb la Recerca". La sessió vol esdevenir un punt de trobada informa ...

La Fundación Foltra ha seleccionat com a millor treball de recerca sobre les teràpies per la regeneració cerebral després d'un dany adquirit el paper "In vitro angiogenic performance and in vivo brain targeti ...

... re-entrant mechanism in which HfNCl host layers transform to an alternative geometry and then revert to their original structure, has been discovered during the synthesis of superconducting Na0.5HfNCl ...

The paper titled “Regenerable solid CO 2 sorbents prepared by supercritical grafting of aminoalkoxysilane into low-cost mesoporous silica” P. López-Aranguren, J. Fraile, L.F. Vega, C. Domingo (Vol 85, ...

"Obtener materiales superconductores más baratos es el objetivo de Eurotapes, un ambicioso proyecto europeo dotado con 20 millones de euros, y liderado por el Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales d ...

G. Sánchez, D. Curiel, I. Ratera, A. Tárraga, J. Veciana, P. Molina; Dalton Trans., 2013,42, 6318-6326  DOI: 10.1039/c2dt32243a A novel dyed mesoporous silica material, in which a thiourea ...

Elisa Elizondo, Jaume Veciana & Nora Ventosa* Future Medicine, September 2012, Vol. 7, No. 9, Pages 1391-1408 doi:10.2217/nnm.12.110 The structuring of synthetic and biological therapeutic ...

... del Superconductor YBCO, obtingut en el Treball, levitant sobre nitrogen líquid Aquest treball, es va fer com a continuació d’una Estada Científica a l'ICMAB-CSIC dins del Programa Argó 2012. La recerc ...

A la investigadora de l'ICMAB Dra. Marta Mas-Torrent li ha sigut concedit un projecte ERC Starting Grant amb titol "Surface Self-assembled Molecular Electronic Devices: Logic Gates, Memories and Senso ...

La superconductivitat: de l'exotisme quàntic a la nanociència i el megawat, 100 anys després del seu descobriment       INFO: http://www.soparsambestrelles.com/ponents/la-superconductivitat Despré ...

... comerciales, ya que su uso permite repatentar fármacos cuya eficacia terapéutica está comprobada. Los sistemas de liberación controlada de fármacos más utilizados son las nano y micropartículas de matriz ...

S’han adjudicat les Càtedres de Transferència “Parc de Recerca UAB – Santander” 2008-2009 i una d’elles ha estat per a la investigadora de l’ICMAB Nora Ventosa. Les consideracions que s'han fet consta ...

2005 APRIL Bellaterra WEBSITE    

The Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures (SUMAN) Group offers three PhD fellow positions in the following topics: Ultrafast growth of thick superconducting epitaxial layers from transient ...

The PhD Researcher Laia Soler Bru from the Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures (SUMAN) Group at ICMAB will defend her PhD thesis on Friday, 1 March 2019, at 11 am at ICMAB-CSIC.   ...

...  are part of our day-to-day routine.In addition to offering services to industry as a Contract Research Organisation (CRO), we also develop various internal research programs which are later commercialise ...

...  the DOC-FAM project, presented the "High temperature superconductor coated conductors for the FCC-hh collider beam screen coating” Mayte Gómez Castaño, from the NANOPTO group presented “Metamateria ...

... ements IP: Laura Simonelli, ALBA, and Manuel Valiente, Roberto Boada and Mercè Llugany Ollé, UAB "In the future I would like to continue in the research field and to start the career in an interdisc ...

...  the magnetic coercivity and viscosity, the exchange coupling to improve the thermal stability of nanoparticles, the electric field effects in thin ferromagnetic films and in spintronics. Dominique wa ...

... (NEST) Project: European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant Involved researchers: Gerard Tobias (IP) The NEST project focuses on the preparation of radioactive nanomaterials, smaller than the ...

...  length scale) of the organization the only perceptible difference. Both processes are of key interest in science, but their quantitative prediction and understanding is still a challenge. Interestingly ...

...  systems, shifting towards non-lithium rechargeable batteries may open up effective ways to overcome such challenges. The rechargeable magnesium battery (RMB) constitutes a paradigmatic example of suc ...

... "Thanks to their nanoscale diameter and their few microns in length, carbon nanotubes allow, with very little quantity (in some cases up to 1 %), to obtain electrical percolation, i.e. a continuous pa ...

This next Thursday, 31 January 2019 at 7 pm, Susagna Ricart, researcher at the Superconducting and Large Scale Nanostructures (SUMAN) group, and also member of the "Madame Châtelet" cast, will give a tal ...

...  From history, a window to the future Davide Beretta, Neophytos Neophytou, James M.Hodges, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis, DarioNarducci, Marisol Martin-Gonzalez, Matt Beekman, Benjamin Balke, Giacomo Cerretti, Wolfgang Tremel, Alexandra Zevalkink ...

... g on renewable energies, superconducting materials and batteries. Now, Xavier Obradors, ICMAB Director, will give a talk on "Nanotechnology and energy transition" on February 4, 2019.  The main objecti ...

...  developed and used to interrogate biological systems.The same platform has been applied to two different applications in order to overcome present challenges when performing biological studies.  ...

...  del dia 12 fins al dia 22 de març de 2019. A qui va dirigit Poden beneficiar-se d’aquests ajuts les universitats, els centres de recerca i les fundacions hospitalàries que tinguin seu a Catalunya ...

...  Your research: Plasmonics; Magneto-optics; Multifunctional-systems Barcelona: Beautiful; Friendly; Overcrowded Your experience at ICMAB: Welcoming; Enriching; Busy PhD Thesis Abstract: I ...

... e in the programme. They are Marina Garrote, from the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM), and Maria Cabello, from the Institut de Microelectrònica de Barcelona (IMB-CNM-CSIC).  We will also have a photoca ...

...  Excellence in Materials Research.Moreover, and in order to complete the learning experience of the ESR, there are two main planned secondments. The first at MERCK (Chilworth, UK) to study the relationship be ...

... advancement of electrochemical energy storage systems.  Alexandre Ponrouch holds an ERC Starting Grant since 2017 for his research project on "Calcium and magnesium metal anode based batteries (CAMBAT)". CAMBA ...

...  systems. The same platform has been applied to two different applications in order to overcome present challenges when performing biological studies.  Supervisors: Dr. Imma Ratera, ICMAB-CSIC Ph ...

... òria, commemorada cada segon dimarts d’octubre. El cinema també ha divulgat l’aportació de Katherine Johnson, matemàtica que va calcular les trajectòries de vol del Projecte Mercury de la NASA i del ...

...  constants (Kox/Kred), which confirm that [COSAN]− interacts with DNA by an intercalative or electrostatic mode, depending on the ionic strength of the solution, were estimated. In addition, high bindin ...

... es Espinosa, E; Molins, E; Lecomte, C Chemical Physics Letters, 1998, 285, 3-4, 170-173. DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2614(98)00036-0 Total citations: 1459 Average citations per year: 69 4. Beyond Intercalation-Ba ...

... or counterclockwise rotated with respect to the Cu(100) directions depending on the enantiomer. The nucleation of molecular chains on top of the aligned square structure gives rise to a second layer exhibiting ...

...  songs, and then we had some Christmas finger food for all our staff. Xavier Lasauca, from the Direcció General de Recerca (GenCat), gave some insights in the use of twitter and blogs for resarchers ...

... ; Canadell, Enric; Tomic, Silvia; Pouget, Jean-Paul Crystals, 2018. 8, 4, 158. DOI: 10.3390/cryst8040158 Citations: 4 Electrochemical Intercalation of Calcium and Magnesium in TiS2: Fundamental Studi ...

...  physicist (UAB, 1988), currently works as Knowledge and Information Systems in R+D Manager in the Direcció General de Recerca (Secretary of Universities and Research, Department of Business and Knowledg ...

... superconductivity, biochemistry, etc. We have selected in this post the journals with the highest Impact Factor (IF) in which the researchers have published an article. Do you want to know which they are? ...

... to: Increase the national and international visibility of the SO and MM programme as an “interdisciplinary and interconnedted Spanish research ecosystem of excellence” Promote exchange of knowledge, ...

... energy conversion and storage systems RL2: Superconductors for power applications RL3: Oxide electronics RL4: Molecular electronics RL5: Multifunctional nanostructured biomaterials These 5 ...

... created READ MORE  2016 A new Scientific Advisory Board is nominated for ICMAB 30 years of ICMAB 4 more ERC Grants attributed to ICMAB to start in 2017 READ MORE 2015 ICMAB receives ...

Dr. Xavier Palmer Paricio from the Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures (SUMAN) group at ICMAB defended his PhD thesis last Tuesday, 13 November 2018. His thesis was about the synthesis ...

... such as metal–insulator transitions and greatly enhance superconductivity, thermoelectricity or optical nonlinearity. In correlated systems, spatially varying charge textures also amplify magnetoelectric ...

...  properties. Particularly, we show that this novel chemical route produces a higher natural ferroelectric domain size distribution and coercive field compared to similar BFO films grown by physical methods ...

... d Energie GmbH, Germany and Stefano Brivio, from the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR, National Research Council) – Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems (IMM) in the Unit of Agrate B ...

Dr. Jordi Martínez from the Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures (SUMAN) group at ICMAB, and the Chemistry Department at the UAB, successfully defended his PhD thesis on Wednesday, ...

...  in mathematics by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and director (from 2007 to 2015) of the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) Nora Ventosa, Doctor in chemical engineering and researcher a ...

... también está explorando el uso del calcio para el desarrollo de baterías más eficaces. En este caso utiliza el molibdeno como óxido para los cátodos de la batería y producir el intercambio de iones y electrones ...

Teresa Puig was on November 15, 2018, on the radio! The program "La Nit Estèrica" from Terrassa Digital (95.2 FM) interviewed Teresa Puig, ICMAB researcher from Terrassa. They talked about superconductin ...

...  celebrar el Congreso 100xCiencia.3: Tendiendo puentes entre ciencia y sociedad. En esta tercera edición -la primera tras la constitución de esta alianza, en octubre de 2017-, la jornada puso el foco e ...

...  regional level. The Nature Index is updated monthly, and a 12-month rolling window (1 August 2017 - 31 July 2018) of data is openly available at www.natureindex.com under a Creative Commons non-commercia ...

...  want to know more, continue reading! Un libro para descubrir la luz. ¿Qué encontraremos en él? Este libro recoge un acercamiento al fascinante mundo de la óptica y la fotónica a través de una complet ...

... of our researchers, workshops in our stand about superconducting materials, minerals, diffraction and photonic materials, and with the exhibition "Matheroes: Supermaterials, heroes of the future".  ...

... year's visit, three research lines were evaluated: RL2: Superconductors for power applications; RL4: Molecular electronics; and RL5: Multifunctional nanostructured biomaterials.  ...

...  facilities have been significally expanded to accommodate 500 m2 of laboratories and offices.　 ICMAB competitiveness can be inferred from the high percentage of our yearly budget raised from competitiv ...

...  to people. Check here the full program: http://www.fundaciorecerca.cat/setmanaciencia  ...

The PhD Researcher Xavier Palmer Paricio from the Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures (SUMAN) group at ICMAB will defend his PhD thesis on Tuesday, 13 November 2018, at 11 am at ICMAB-Sala ...

... iol Gasch Blasi, Consorci Hospitalari del Parc Taulí Dra. Cristina Garcia de la Maria, Hospital Clínic i Provincial de Barcelona - Fundació Clínic per a la Recerca Biomèdica Dra. Imma Ratera Bastardas, Inst ...

...  on surface, by the formation of molecular junctions based on the perchlorotriphenylmethyl radical and the carbon triple bond as anchoring group. On the other hand, two new molecular switches, a stilbenoi ...

... been back cover, and is performed in the framework of the ERC project FOREMAT from Dr. Mariano Campoy-Quiles Organic materials have huge potential as the main ingredient in cost-effective and low ...

...  the Science Week is an initiative coordinated by the Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació. The CSIC organizes and coordinates the Science Week in all the CSIC centers and institutions.  A ...

The PhD Researcher Jordi Martínez from the Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures (SUMAN) group at ICMAB, and the Chemistry Department at the UAB, will defend his PhD thesis on Wednesday, ...

... ICMAB researchers, participate in the organization of some symposia in the fields of "materials for energy" and "nano-functional materials": Batteries and supercapacitors: fundamentals, materials a ...

... ultra-thin films with excellent piezoelectric properties. Particularly, we show that this novel chemical route produces a higher natural ferroelectric domain size distribution and coercive field compared ...

Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures  ...

... os y otros más renuentes a los que se tiene que insistir. (A. Santos) El impacto que he percibido en los últimos años, sobre todo con el desarrollo del programa H2020, es un interés creciente y sólido  ...

The PhD Researcher Mengdi Qian from the Laboratory of Multifunctional Oxides and Complex Structures (MULFOX) will defend her PhD thesis on Friday, 16 November 2018, at 10 am at ICMAB.  Resistive switching ...

... will be organized on the afternoons of the biennial, one of them, co-organized by Teresa Puig,  and another one by Esther Barrena, from ICMAB-CSIC.  A. Superconducting Materials. Organized by Leni Bascones ...

Xavier Obradors, ICMAB Director and researcher at the Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures (SUMAN) group, inaugurated on Thursday, 18 October 2018, the academic year 2018-2019 of the ...

Postdoctoral researcher offer entitled: Atomic structure imaging and analyses of YBa2Cu3O7-x thin films and nanocomposites in the Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures (SUMAN) group.  ...

...  properties, and that this properties could be transformed into superpowers: superconductivity, fotoelectric effect, magnetic properties, nanoencapsulation, molecular switching...  Come and visit th ...

... Comunicació Científica), which they received last night, Monday, 15 October 2018, at the TNC.  We would also like to congratulate all the awardees: Roderic Guigó (Premi Nacional de Recerca), reseacher ...

...  optical microscopy to about 200 nm. Numerous techniques have been invented to overcome this barrier and allow visualization of biological structures at the sub-cellular level with unprecedented clarity ...

...  compounds based on polyyne molecular wires, and on surface, by the formation of molecular junctions based on the perchlorotriphenylmethyl radical and the carbon triple bond as anchoring group. On the othe ...

...  Since its first commercialization in the early 1990’s, the Li-ion batteries (LIB) technology has spurred the spread of portable electronics as well as enabled the realization of electrical vehicles wit ...

... l energy (electrochemical accumulators, superconductivity). In all cases, nanomaterials and devices are already described that already show that there is indeed a promising route to base the energy transiti ...

... 3 heterostructures.Supervisor: Jaume Gázquez, Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures (ICMAB) PhD Committee:  President: Francesca Peiró (UB) Secretary: Felip Sandiumen ...

... oste revolucionarán la tecnología fotovoltaica gracias a dispositivos más estables y eficientes" - Mariona Coll Bau.  The other awarded reserachers that had the opportunity to an article on their re ...

Watch here the video of the e-GAMES project, the ERC Starting Grant project awarded to Marta Mas-Torrent, explained here in plain words for everyone to understand!  Video produced by FilmoCiencia for ...

... promises to overcome some of the limitations that have kept these materials out of the "photonic arena" so far. The bandgap of hexagonal Ge is predicted to be direct bandgap, a fact that could have importan ...

... from around the world. The school was centered on the big topic "materials for energy" and focused materials for photovoltaics, batteries, supercapacitors, batteries and superconducting applications.   ...

...  the Library "Biblioteca Sagrada Família", Barcelona, at 1 pm, in the framework of the activities of the European Researchers' Night (Nit Europea de la Recerca), organised in Catalonia.  See the phot ...

On Friday, 28 September 2018, the ICMAB and most of the research centers in Catalonia, Spain and Europe, celebrated the 2018 European Researchers' Night (named "Nit Europea de la Recerca" in Catalonia) ...

... natural ferroelectric domain size distribution and coercive field compared to similar BFO films grown by physical methods. Moreover, we measured the d33 piezoelectric coefficient of 60 nm thick BFO films ...

... h areas are: sustainable energy, represented by "FotoEnergía", nanostructured biomaterials, represented by "BioNanoCápsula", molecular electronics, represented by "ElectroWoman", superconducting mater ...

The PhD Researcher Bernat Mundet from the Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures (SUMAN) group will defend his PhD thesis on Monday, 8 October 2018, at 4:30 pm at ICMAB.  Title: Atomic-scale ...

... to do research in Spain. Mariona Coll, a chemist from ICMAB, is one of them. Mariona Coll is a researcher at the Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures (SUMAN) group. Her current ...

... of high impact articles and citations and European research projects participation (9 ERC grants at present), with the strongest international leadership position in the specific domains of Functional ...

... stigación -seleccionados por el programa del European Research Council (ERC)- ante un público general y, a partir de ahí, entablar un debate ante las inquietas preguntas de los asistentes. Un reto a travé ...

...  de Barcelona, on s’ha dedicat a la recerca i a la docència. Durant molts anys ha fet recerca en teoria i fenomenologia de partícules elementals, especialment, en models de quarks i en interaccions electromagnètiq ...

... thod based on the matrix assisted pulsed laser evaporation (MAPLE) technique was used for the fabrication of graphene-based electrodes for application in supercapacitors. The simultaneous deposition a ...

...  family and colleagues! Congratulations!     Abstract: In order to transport large amounts of power, the YBCO superconducting films must be thick. However, to achieve high thickness i ...

... ve experience, both for the participants and the organizers.  About the Campus Gutenberg El Campus es un espacio de debate y de intercambio de ideas donde los profesionales de la comunicación científ ...

... de Física de Cantabria (centro mixto del CSIC y de la Universidad de Cantabria). Los directores de los dos primeros, Xavier Obradors y Matilde Barón, y la vicedirectora del tercero, Rocío Vilar, han mostrado ...

... in the development of materials with energy applications, such as photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, batteries or superconducting materials. Download the book of abstracts and the programme in the school ...

...  improved properties, e.g. for information storage and data processing. Oxides exhibit an exceptionally broad range of versatile functionalities (insulator to superconductor, ferroelectric, magnetic…) controllabl ...

The European Researchers' Night (Nit Europea de la Recerca) is celebrated throughout Europe on the last Friday of September, with the aim of bringing science, research and technology closer to the public. In ...

... optical properties, but also because they are high-quality building blocks for complex plasmonic architectures. Close-packed colloidal supercrystals not only serve for investigating the rich plasmonic ...

... que hoy ofrece el mercado En un mundo con cada vez más opciones de movilidad, hace falta mucha energía almacenada para garantizar autonomía y libertad de movimiento. Por eso grupos de investigación y ...

...  functionality. While creating complex memories for commercial applications, we also show bio-inspired performance with electronics with 10% of biological data.Hard wearables such as smart watches are no ...

... ferroelectric properties at room temperature. They present a remnant polarization around 20 μC/cm2 without the need of a wake-up process, a large coercive electric field of around 3 MV/cm, an extremely ...

... l Intercalation Layered Materials Dino Tonti Soft x-ray microscopy of lithium-rich layered-oxide cathode materials Ashley Phillip Black Serra On the strange case of divalent ions intercalation in V2 ...

...  out of molybdenum and gold (Mo/Au) bilayers, which have superconducting properties and work at cryogenic temperatures (100 mK). Other sensors like these ones can be made out of other materials, such a ...

The "Societat Catalana de Química" (SCQ-IEC) organizes every year the contest on the best research chemistry projects for secondary school students (Premis als Treballs de Recerca de Batxillerat dins l'Àmb ...

...  organic molecular electronics for low cost temperature and pressure sensors, oxides for spintronics and memory devices, superconductors for energy transport and wind turbines, nanoparticles for brain repair ...

... ks using sustainable CO2 technology  Anna Palau and Narcís Mestres: Reversible switching of superconductor-insulator transition for green electronic devices  Florencio Sánchez and Ignasi Fina: HfO2-ba ...

...  to do some research stays with some of our researchers, in the fields of spintronics, solar cells, superconducting materials, porous materials for energy, sustainable chemistry and crystallography.   ...

...  Ziliang!!     Ziliang Li, from China, spent four years working in his PhD thesis at the "Superconducting materials and large scale nanostructures" (SUMAN) research group, with the directi ...

...  of Ana M. López-Periago, from the ICMAB, who became second in the audience award, with her talk on "CO2: hero or villain?", in which she talked about the benefits of using supercritical CO2 in the preparati ...

... Dynamics of Supercooled Water Films: A High-Speed Optical Microscope Study Author(s): Pach, E (Pach, E.); Rodriguez, L (Rodriguez, L.); Verdaguer, A (Verdaguer, A.) Source: JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY ...

...  Large current-induced broadening of the superconducting transition in Mo/Au transition edge sensors Fabrega, L; Camon, A; Pobes, C; Strichovanec, P; Gonzalez-Arrabal, R SUPERCONDUCTOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY  ...

... ch award in the last two calls, with the subsequent mediatic repercussion and visibility of the center and of women in science Although the institute has been organizing for many years activities aro ...

... experimenting with superconductors. See you soon!    ...

... Alpes, CNRS, France Tuesday, 24 July 2018 @ 12 pm ICMAB - Sala d'Actes Carles Miravitlles Abstract: Applied superconductivity will soon celebrate its 60 years. It was linked to the emergence of conductor ...

... n (molecular materials), SuperConductor (superconducting materials) and Magnon (oxides and magnetic materials).  The participants are able to see first-hand the materials that are being developed current ...

... y of Sant Benet de Bages and the salt mines and the castle of Cardona. From quantum physics to nanotechnology: Xavier Obradors, ICMAB Director and researcher at the Superconducting Materials and Lar ...

... ion of oxide thin films (in the nanoscale).  The second prize of the Program, which consists of 1,500 euros and 6 months of incubation in the Eureka building, has been given to Cerclab, led by Marta Santama ...

Hi! My name is Queralt and I'm going to stay a few days with NANOMOL group. I won this experience thanks to "Societat Catalana de Química"'s "Treball de Recerca" prize. Next year, I will be studying Biotechno ...

... NPs). Promising candidates for this task are strongly miniaturized superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) – so-called nanoSQUIDs. A SQUID consists of a superconducting ring, intersected b ...

... molecules that are commercial or easy to synthesize in comparison with the cyclopentadiene derivatives needed for the Diels–Alder reaction, the latter reaction produces more homogeneous coverages under ...

... ). Gerard Tobias leads the research line “Nanoengineering of Carbon and Inorganic Materials” at the ICMAB. He holds a ERC Consolidator grant for his NEST project on "Nanoengineering of radioactive s ...

... recent publications include: Electrochemical Intercalation of Calcium and Magnesium in TiS2: Fundamental Studies Related to Multivalent Battery Applications. Chem. Mater., 2018, 30 (3), pp 847–856  ...

... by single‐crystal and powder X‐ray diffraction. Poor hydrogen bond acceptors such as MeOH, CHCl3 or supercritical CO2 induce such a 3D to 2D transformation. Remarkably, the transformation is reversible ...

...  phenomena (including spin transport and spin-orbit effects) in metals, insulators and novel two-dimensional materials. His pioneering studies on spin-charge interconversion in metals have led to an R+ ...

... logarithmic decay on the critical currents in superconductors, especially at high temperatures, in detriment of applications for high temperature superconductors. In this work, we present a novel methodology ...

... transformation is trigger not only by convectional organic solvents but also by green supercritical CO2, opening the way to sustainable processes” explains Ana López-Periago from the Supercritical Fluids ...

... a a tothom a participar i fer-se escoltar en el plantejament, els processos i els resultats de la recerca científica sota criteris com l’ètica, la transparència, la igualtat o l’accés obert al coneixemen ...

...  synthesis and preparation of new functional molecular materials for organic/molecular electronic devices, which is the topic of her research. Marta received an ERC Starting Grant in 2012 and an ERC Proof-of-Concep ...

... can exercise the following rights for free, by email to joan@icmab.es attaching a copy of your Identity card or equivalent document.The rights that can be exercised are: Access: Consultation of the ...

... on nanoparticles White chocolate thin films Superconducting sugar Flour powder Microstructured eggs Nanofluid cheese Composite butter Graphene mint leaves Raspberry crystals All the ingredie ...