Un grupo de científicos, entre ellos varios físicos y químicos del Instituto de Ciencia de los Materiales de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), han puesto en duda un artículo publicado en 2012 en la revista Nature por el premio Nobel de Química, J. Fraser Stoddart.

Ya se encuentra publicada la resolución de concesión de las becas colaboración Severo Ochoa y María de Maeztu 2017-2018 en la web de la convocatoria. La fecha tope de envío de aceptación de las ayudas es el 25 de julio.

The Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB) has become a new member of the European network of science centres and museums ECSITE, which was created more than 25 years ago to foster creativity and critical thinking in European society, emboldening citizens to engage with science. 

Dr. Enric Canadell, Dr. Anna Laromaine, Dr. Jaume Veciana and Dr. Clara Viñas, awarded during 2016-2017 by external institutions for their Scientific Merits, have been acknowledged by the CSIC on July 5, 2017, at the CSIC Auditorium in Madrid. 

Hello! I'm Daniel from Bacelona. I'm at ICMAB to learn how to make efficient solar cells as a part of a scientific program called Youth and Science. During this month I will be using materials such as oxide perovskites, which have interesting properties.

Jordi Faraudo, from the Theory and Simulation Group, is an invited researcher at the Earth Life Science Institute (ELSI) inTokyo (Japan). There he will work together with international and local researchers to investigate the fomation of complex molecules from simple molecules with selfassembly models. The news appeared in La Vanguardia and in El Periódico:

La sisena edició del Programa de Generació d’Idees donarà suport a projectes del sector de la biotecnologia industrial i la biomedicina. El proper dijous 29 de juny a les 12 h es presentarà el projecte pels investigadors de l'ICMAB.

At the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) Board of Trustees meeting, which took place on June 26 in Barcelona and was chaired by Andreu Mas-Colell, Gabriel M. Silberman was appointed new General Director. The incorporation of the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) as a new member of the Foundation was also approved.

Elena Bartolomé, Pablo Cayado, Eduardo Solano,Cristian Mocuta, Susagna Ricart, Bernat Mundet, Marionna Coll, Jaume Gázquez, Alexander Meledin, Gustaaf van Tendeloo, Manuel Valvidares, Javier Herrero-Martín, Pierluigi Gargiani, Eric Pellegrin, Cesar Magén, Teresa Puig, Xavier Obradors. Adv. Electron. Mater. 2017, 1700037. DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201700037

ICMAB hosted its first International Summer School on Materials for Biomedical Application (MATBIO2017) with four days full of lectures and hands-on activities, and with over 45 students of 21 different institutions and more than 8 different countries. 

The Revista de Física, from the Real Sociedad Española de Física - RSEF, includes in its second number of 2017 an article about the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB), within the section "Nodos de la Física".

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The PhD Researcher Elena Oleshkevich from the Inorganic Materials and Catalysis Laboratory will defend his PhD thesis:

Bojos per la Física és un curs d'un any de durada dirigit als estudiants del primer any de batxillerat de la modalitat de Ciències i Tecnologia amb especial interès i talent per la Física.

L’objectiu bàsic d’aquest projecte és fomentar la vocació científica d’aquests joves i en especial el seu entusiasme per la física.

The PhD Researcher Elena Marchante, from the NANOMOL group will defend his PhD thesis:

Dr. Bernhard Dörling graduated with a thesis in "Conjugated Materials for Thermoelectrics and Photovoltaics" in the NANOPTO group, supervised by Dr. Mariano Campoy-Quiles and Dr. Miquel Garriga Bacardí. 

P. Cayado, C. F. Sánchez-Valdés,  A. Stangl,  M. Coll,  P. Roura,  A. Palau,  T. Puig  and  X. Obradors*. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017,19, 14129-14140. DOI: 0.1039/C7CP01855J0.1039/C7CP01855J

This week, Rosa Palacín, Roberta Verrelli and Enrique Irisarri, from the Solid State Chemistry group, participate in the H2020 NAIADES Project Meeting & Summer School on "Sodium-ion Batteries: Fundamentals & Applications”, which takes place at Charlmers University, in Gothenburg.

Liang Ye, Arántzazu González-Campo, Tibor Kudernac, Rosario Núñez, Michel de Jong, Wilfred G. van der Wiel, and Jurriaan Huskens*. Langmuir, 2017, 33 (15), pp 3635–3638. DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b0015710.1021/acs.langmuir.7b00157

Last night, on May 24, Xavier Obradors received the Ambassador Award from the Regió 7 daily journal. Neus Munté, Minister of Presidency and government spokesperson, delivered the award. 

The 2017 E-MRS (European-Materials Research Society) Spring Meeting and Exhibit will be held from May 22nd to 26th in the Convention Centre of Strasbourg (France).

The PhD Researcher Bernhard Dörling, from the NANOPTO group will defend his PhD thesis:

Since 1985, the Societat Catalana de Física (SCF) and the Institut Menorquí d’Estudis (IME) organize the "Trobades Científiques de la Mediterrània" (TCM - Scientific Meetings of the Mediterranean) with the support of several institutions. The main goal of the meetings is to provide an environment for the exchange among scientists of a specific subject in the field of Physics.

Changyong Lu,* Stefania Sandoval, Teresa Puig, Xavier Obradors, Gerard Tobias, Josep Rosa and Susagna Ricart. RSC Adv., 2017, 7, 24690. DOI: 10.1039/c7ra04080f

The Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) celebrated its XXXVI Biennial Meeting in Sitges from 25 to 29 June 2017. "The Biennial" (La Bienal) as it is known by the Spanish Chemical community, is the forum which shows the vitality and the vigor of the Spanish chemistry, and ICMAB didn't want to miss this great event!

Dr. José M. Muñoz and Dr. Francesca Leonardi, from the NANOMOL group, have been granted with a Juan de la Cierva Fellowship to continue their postdoctoral research under the supervision of Dr. Marta Mas-Torrent.

J A Silva-Guillén, E Canadell, P Ordejón, F Guinea, and R Roldán, 2D Materials, Volume 4, Number 2

Manuel Souto has won the first runner-up doctorate NANOMOLMAT 2016 award, granted by the Specialized Group in Nanoscience and Molecular Materials (NANOMATMOL) from the RSEQ and RSEF, to the best PhD theses of 2016.

Hendrik Ohldag, IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2017, visited our Institute on June 27 and delivered the talk on "Ultrafast and Very Small: Discover Nanoscale Magnetism With Picosecond Time Resolution Using X-Rays". 

The ICMAB hosts this year six students from the UAB Argó Program. They will be with us during the mornings, from June 26 until July 13.

We welcome Hendrik Ohldag, IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2017, who will visit our Institute on June 27 (at 10 am) and will deliver the talk on "Ultrafast and Very Small: Discover Nanoscale Magnetism With Picosecond Time Resolution Using X-Rays". 

The association Mujeres & Cía has revealed, on June 21 in Madrid, the list of the most influential women talents of Spain. Among them there are athletes, businesswomen, politicians, journalists, and a researcher from ICMAB: Anna Laromaine.

The ICMAB spin-off Oxolutia and BSH Spain will collaborate to improve the performance of materials in the R & D phase.

Dr. Ashley Black graduated with a thesis in "New oxynitride materials with luminescent, magnetic and catalytic properties" in the Solid State Chemistry group, supervised by Dr. Amparo Fuertes.

Sergi Galindo, Adrián Tamayo, Francesca Leonardi, Marta Mas-Torrent. Adv. Funct. Materials. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201700526

Sergi Lendínez, Jinting Hang, Saül Vélez, Joan Manel Hernández, Dirk Backes, Andrew D. Kent, and Ferran Macià. Phys. Rev. Applied 7, 054027. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.7.054027

Dr. Elena Marchante graduated with a thesis in "Self-assembled monolayers of electroactive molecules for the preparation of memory devices" in the NANOMOL group, supervised by Dr. Marta Mas-Torrent and Dr. Núria Crivillers Clusella. 

Jordi Martínez, from the SUMAN group, has been awarded with the second prize for his poster, abstract and oral presentation entitled "Uncovering the surface chemistry of LnF3 nanoparticles" during the "Jornades Doctorals 2017" organized by the Chemistry Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB).

Imanol Landa-Medrano, Andrea Sorrentino, Lorenzo Stievano, Idoia Ruiz de Larramendi, Eva Pereiro, Luis Lezama, Teófilo Rojo, Dino Tonti. Nano Energy, Volume 37, July 2017, Pages 224–231 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.05.021

The Quantum Engineering Grenoble program from Université Grenoble-Alpes and the Grenoble Quantum Engineering  European COFUND program will offer 20 PhD positions over 3 calls (autumn 2017, spring 2018, autumn 2018).

Hello I am Saúl from Cantabria and I will be working on my PhD at ICMAB for the next years.

Last weekend, 27-28 May, the Ciutadella Park hosted the 2017 Barcelona Science Festival "Festa de la Ciència 2017". ICMAB participated giving some "microtalks" on solar cells and photonic crystals.

The PhD Researcher Ashley Black from the Solid State Chemistry group will defend his PhD thesis:

Last Friday 19 May, we had an exceptional day at ICMAB: there was the thesis defense of two PhD Researchers: Davide Blasi and Juan Carlos Gonzalez-Rosillo. 

Ana M. López-Periago, Nuria Portoles-Gil, Pedro López-Domínguez, Julio Fraile, Javier Saurina, Nuria Aliaga-Alcalde, Gerard Tobias, José A. Ayllón, and Concepcion Domingo*. Cryst. Growth Des., 2017, 17 (5), pp 2864–2872. DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.7b00378

The PhD Student Juan Carlos Gonzalez-Rosillo, from the SUMAN group will defend his PhD thesis: