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- The second call of this program will allow 12 predoctoral researchers to start their PhD at the ICMAB-CSIC, the ICN2, the IMB-CNM-CSIC, the IREC and the ALBA Synchrotron
- In total the DOC-FAM program will enable 22 early stage researchers to conduct their PhD in the field of "Advanced Functional Materials" in these outstanding research institutions
- The DOC-FAM program, coordinated by the ICMAB, is the first MSCA COFUND coordinated by a CSIC center
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Naukas Bilbao is one of the greatest event in Science Communication in Spain. This year the 9th edition of Naukas will take place in Bilbao, from 19 to 22 September 2019, at the Palacio Euskalduna, which can host an audience of more than 2,000 people! This year, the Nanomol Group researcher Dolores Bueno, will give a talk about the project in which she is participating, Smart4Fabry. The talk is entitled "Share your rare!" and will be on Friday, 20 September, at 11:10 am. Good luck, Dolores!
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Hi, my name is Clemens Lindermeir from Wolfenbüttel, Germany. I am eighteen years old and joined the ICMAB to do an internship for a year. In Germany I study chemical engineering at the Clausthal University of Technology. Apart from that I enjoy being outdoors, riding motorcycle and playing my guitar. I am also a big fan of travelling. During my stay I`d like to learn Spanish (and maybe Catalan) fluently and I will keep looking for new experiences and friends to spend time with.
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Nadejda Davydova, Xavier R. Rodriguez, Carlos Blázquez, Andrés Gómez,* Igor Perevyazko, Judith Guasch,* Vladimir Sergeev, Elena Laukhina,* Imma Ratera and Jaume Veciana. RSC Adv., 2019,9, 15402-15409.
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The culture and science communication conference Campus Gutenberg-CosmoCaixa will present this year a programme with more than 50 science communication and outreach activities. The event will take place on 16-17 September at CosmoCaixa. One of the workshops, organized by science communicators of different research centers (including ICMAB) will challenge the participants to bring some research results to the TV: “Del laboratori al prime time: com aconseguir que la recerca accedeixi un plató de televisió”. Are you ready?
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Mathieu Mirjolet, Hari Babu Vasili, LLuís López‐Conesa, Sònia Estradé, Francesca Peiró, José Santiso, Florencio Sánchez, Pamela Machado, Pierluigi Gargiani, Manuel Valvidares, Josep Fontcuberta. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2019, 1904238.
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The FCRi organizes a contest of scientific monologues in Catalan for the Science Week (8-17 November 2019). The first prize is awarded for 1,000 €. Are you ready to participate? Deadline: 14 October 2019.
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The PhD Researcher Abhishek Saini from the Inorganic Materials and Catalysis Laboratory at ICMAB will defend his PhD thesis on Friday, 20 September 2019, at 11 am at the ICMAB-CSIC.
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Carlos Moya, Remei Escudero, David C. Malaspina, Maria de la Mata, Jesús Hernández-Saz, Jordi Faraudo, Anna Roig*. ACS Appl. Bio Mater.2019273084-3094. Publication Date:June 19, 2019
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The PhD Researcher Jike Lyu from the Laboratory of Multifunctional Oxides and Complex Structures (MULFOX) at ICMAB will defend his PhD thesis on Thursday, 12 September 2019, at 11 am at ICMAB-CSIC.
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Andrés Gómez,* Qiong Wang,* Alejandro R. Goñi, Mariano Campoy-Quiles and Antonio Abate*. Energy Environ. Sci., 2019, Advance Article.
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Fontcuberta, J., Vasili, H. B., Gàzquez, J., Casanova, F., Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2019, 1900475.
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Saul Estandía, Nico Dix, Jaume Gàzquez, Ignasi Fina, Jike Lyu, Matthew F. Chisholm, Josep Fontcuberta, Florencio Sanchez. ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 2019.
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X. Torrelles, G. Cantele, G. M. De Luca, R. Di Capua, J. Drnec, R. Felici, D. Ninno, G. Herranz, and M. Salluzzo. Phys. Rev. B 99, 205421.
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- The future circular collider (FCC), with a 100 km circumference ring, will extend the research currently being conducted at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the search for new physics.
- High-temperature superconductors, such as YBCO, are being studied to be used as coating for the FCC ring instead of copper. Researchers have found that these materials outperform copper by a factor of 40, which would greatly enhance the FCC efficiency and provide big energy savings.
- The Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures (SUMAN) group at the ICMAB-CSIC participates in this study as part of a consortium with the ALBA Synchrotron, the IFAE and the UPC.
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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'Àmbit de la Química). The award for the finalist students is a two-week scientific internship in a Catalan research center or university during July 2018. This year, at the ICMAB we had Nerea and Helena, who spent two weeks with us!
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Researchers of the Nanomol group of the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), together with the company Nanomol Technologies S.L. have begun a consultation process with the Spanish Association of Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) to try and enter a new treatment in a clinical studies stage, to fight against venous ulcers in lower extremities. The study is carried out within the framework of the RIS3CAT NANONAFRES project.
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Marta De Luca, Claudia Fasolato, Marcel A. Verheijen, Yizhen Ren, Milo Y. Swinkels, Sebastian Kölling, Erik P.A.M. Bakkers, Riccardo Rurali*, Xavier Cartoixà, Ilaria Zardo*. Nano Lett.2019. 2019.
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Dr. Isabel Fuentes from the Inorganic Materials & Catalysis at ICMAB successfully defended her PhD thesis "Aplicaciones de los metalacarboranos en el campo de la biomedicina y de la energía" supervised by Francesc Teixidor, on Tuesday, 16 July 2019.
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Dr. Andrea Schiaffino from the Theory and Simulations Group at ICMAB succesfully defended his PhD thesis on "First-principles theory of flexoelectricity: methods and applications" supervised by ICREA Research Professor at ICMAB-CSIC, Massimiliano Stengel, on Tuesday, 2 July 2019.
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Researchers from the ICMAB-CSIC and ALBA Synchrotron have led a collaborative research, together with the iCN2, the Dept. of Electronics and Biomedical Engineering (UB) and CIC nanoGUNE (Donostia), where they have exploited X-ray absorption spectroscopy at the BOREAS beamline of ALBA for unveiling the optical and spin transport properties of transition metal oxides for photovoltaics and spintronics applications.
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Jose Luis García-Muñoz, Javier Blasco, Xiaodong Zhang, and Oscar Fabelo. Phys. Rev. B 99, 184444 – Published 29 May 2019.
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The newspaper "El Mundo" published on 17 July 2019 a report on the new materials "that will revolutionize the world". The ICMAB appears in the article, together with other research centers working in nanomaterials and materials science.
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The CSIC Annual Report 2018 is now online. You can find information about the 120 research centers and units, 1,597 research groups, and 10,642 total staff. The ICMAB article "Hydroxypropyl cellulose photonic architectures by soft nanoimprinting lithography" (Nature Photonics 12, 343 (2018)) appears as one of the highlights in the Materials Science and Technology area.
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The 10th edition of the "Ideas Generation Program" (Programa Generació d'Idees) is special since it is part of a broader initiative to solve smart food challenges. Innovations can be implemented in the production, processing, packaging or consumption of the whole food industry. Any ideas? Registration is open until October 1, 2019.
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Hi! I'm Alper, a PhD student from Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. I will be working as a guest researcher with Prof. Carmen Ocal's group, Physical Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces, on synthesis and characterization of organic semiconductor thin films. Cheers!
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The Seminars and Training Committee kindly invites you to the following ICMAB Invited Seminar:
Dye Molecules studied by Scanning Probe Microscopy
by Dr. Thilo Glatzel, Department of Physics, University of Basel
Friday, 20 September 2019 @ 12 pm
ICMAB - Sala d'Actes MATGAS
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The Plant Nanohealing Technology, jointly developed by CRAG and ICMAB-CSIC researchers, is currently being tested by the company Forestal Catalana.
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The opening conference of the 2019-2020 course of the Catalan Physics Society (SCF - Societat Catalana de Física) will take place on Wednesday, 18 September, at the Sala Nicolau d'Owler (Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Carrer del Carme, 47) at 7 pm. The conference will be given by Dr. Àngels Ramos, Professor in the area of Atomic and Nuclear Physics at the University of Barcelona.
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The Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites (NN) Group at the ICMAB offers one PhD position in the framework of the project "Rising the Impact of Selected Engineered Bacterial Cellulose composites" (RISE). The PhD thesis will aim at developing complex bacterial cellulose scaffolds for dermal cell cultures. Deadline for applications: 15 October 2019.
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C. Ramírez, E. García. E. Barrena, A. De Pablos, M. Belmonte, M.I. Osendi, P. Miranzo, C. Ocal. Carbon, Volume 153, November 2019, Pages 417-427.
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The PhD Researcher Fangchang Tan from the Inorganic Materials and Catalysis Laboratory at ICMAB will defend her PhD thesis on Monday, 16 September 2019, at 11 am at the ICN2.
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The PhD Researcher Arpita Saha from the Inorganic Materials and Catalysis Laboratory at ICMAB will defend her PhD thesis on Thursday, 12 September 2019, at 11 am at the Seminar Hall at ICN2.
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Hi, I'm Shima Fasahat from Iran and Isfahan city. I came to the ICMAB for a summer research internship in the field of nanocarbon supercapacitors. This was a great chance for me to learn many new things. Currently I am an undergraduate physics student at university of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran. I am interested in learning new languages and at the moment I know English and French in addition to my mother tongue which is Persian. I'm going to learn Spanish for the third foreign language. I also do fitness as my sport time and hobby
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The 1st EUSMI/NFFA-Europe Joint School on Data Management will take place in Trieste, Italy, on 10-11 December 2019. The course is in the framework of the NFFA-Europe project, which integrates 20 partners, including the ICMAB.
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Hi! I am Núria, a student from the UB.
I am going to spend the summer at the ICMAB doing my my TFG in the SUMAN group and I am looking forward to learn everything I can from this experience!
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Elena Oleshkevich, Anna Morancho, Arpita Saha, Koen M.O. Galenkamp, Alba Grayston, Simonetta Geninatti Crich, Diego Alberti, Nicoletta Protti, Joan X. Comella, Francesc Teixidor, Anna Rosell, Clara Viñas. Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine. Volume 20, August 2019, 101986.
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Teresa Puig, Patrick Krkotic, Artur Romanov, Joan O'Callaghan, Danilo Andrea Zanin, Holger Neupert, Pedro Costa Pinto, Pierre Demolon, Ângelo Rafael Granadeiro Costa, Mauro Taborelli, Francis Perez, Montse Pont, Joffre Gutierrez and Sergio Calatroni. Superconductor Science and Technology
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Francisco-López, A., Han, B., Lagarde, D., Marie, X., Urbaszek, B., Robert, C., & Goñi, A. (2019). Papers in Physics, 11, 110005.
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Se‐Woong Baek,
Pau Molet,
Min‐Jae Choi,
Margherita Biondi,
Olivier Ouellette,
James Fan,
Sjoerd Hoogland,
F. Pelayo García de Arquer,
Agustín Mihi, Edward H. Sargent.
Adv. Mater. 2019, 1901745.
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This year the ICMAB hosted three (3) students from the program "Joves i Ciència" from Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera: Carla París, Teresa Echevarría and Benet Fité. They came to our Institute to do some research stays with some of our researchers, in the fields of superconducting materials, solar cells, and metal-organic-frameworks (MOFs). And they dit SUCH a great job!
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The Seminars and Training Committee kindly invites you to the following ICMAB Periodical Lecture:
Quantum disruption
by José Ignacio LATORRE, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona
Monday, 16 September 2019 @ 12 pm
ICMAB - Sala d'Actes Carles Miravitlles
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The first review meeting of the KardiaTool project, a project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, was organised onMarch 2019. The project involves fourteen partners from nine European countries and one non-European country (United States). The consortium is formd by five universities, five research centres, including the CSIC, two SMEs and two industry partners.
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- Teresa Puig, group leader of the Superconducting Materials and Large Scale Nanostructures (SUMAN) group, is among the awardees for a project to scale-up a new manufacturing process of high-temperature superconductors.
- The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded top-funding totalling 9.3 M€ to 62 ERC grant holders via its Proof of Concept Grants. They are meant to explore the commercial or societal potential of their research.
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The poster "The theatre as a tool to spotlight the relevance of women in the history of science", which explains the project "Madame Châtelet and her Instagram followers" has received the Poster Prize at the Biennial of Physics (XXXVII Reunión Bienal de la Real Sociedad Española de Física). Carmen Ocal, one of the founders of the project, presented the poster at the "Women and Physics" symposium, on 16 July 2019. Many ICMAB researchers were present at the #BienalRSEF presenting posters and oral communications. This is a great meeting for physicists in Spain!
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Jose Giner was interviewed in Onda Cero Vigo, in the program "La Mirilla" with Raquel Sánchez, for the nanotransformers discovery, the MOFs that can reversible go from 2D to 3D structures. If you want to discover what these materials are, listen to the podcast! Jose Giner is "el chef de los nanomateriales"!
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Elies Molins participated in the creation of the exhibition "Energía: origen y final del todo", which was exhibited at Laboratorium Museum in Bergara (Basque Country) from January to May 2019. The curators and designers were Carlota Oliver, Javier Tejada (Universitat de Barcelona) and Elies Molins (ICMAB-CSIC).
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The 33rd issue of the electronic journal of the CSIC Library Network "Enredadera", entitled Ciencia Abierta y la Red de Bibliotecas y Archivos del CSIC, is now available. The section En directo contains the article Toda ciencia es abierta, a collaboration by Alejandro Santos, librarian and documentalist of the Library Manuel Cardona at ICMAB-CSIC.
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