The production, preparation, and use of bacterial nanocellulose as corneal bandages could be the key to help delicate stem cells to migrate to the cornea and heal the eye from a range of ocular disorders.
Press Release, Top Science Results
Hey! I am David Medina from Mexico. I am a student of Europhotonics from the EMJMD+ program, that is currently working in the TFM with the Nanopto research group at ICMAB, under the supervision of Dr. Agustin Mihi. My main interest is the plasmonics field, and in this project I will continue working in the pursue of a metamaterial with a high Q-factor originated by plasmonic resonances enhanced by an array structure of plasmonic metamolecules and hopefully, apply it for the fabrication of a plasmon laser (spaser). I am looking forward to this experience and to meet the ICMAB community!
We would like to invite you to the following Online ICMAB Periodical Lecture:
Optical Emission Tuning of Single Photon Sources by Elastic Strain Engineering
by Javier Martín-Sánchez, Department of Physics, University of Oviedo (Spain)
Monday, 15 March 2020 @ 12 pm
Online Invited Seminar by Zoom. Register here to attend
Periodical Lectures & Invited Seminars
The annealing process is an important step common to epitaxial films prepared by chemical solution deposition methods. It is so because the final microstructure of the films can be severely affected by the precise features of the thermal processing. In this work we analyze the structural and magnetic properties of double perovskite La2CoMnO6 and La2NiMnO6 epitaxial thin films prepared by polymer-assisted deposition (PAD) and crystallized by rapid thermal annealing (RTA).
We are happy to announce that FECYT has selected the "Matheroes: Supermaterials, the heroes of the future" project to be part of the eighth edition of the catalog of "Innovative practices in scientific culture".
The "Innovative practices in scientific culture" catalog includes a selection of activities that FECYT (Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología) has considered as unique in science outreach and science communicatin. It includes innovative and high quality actions that highlight for some of their aspects: their new formats, the strategic objectives they pursue, the specific public they are aimed at, their high impact on the participants, the invomvement of scientific and non-scientific agents, to name a few.
ICMAB Awards, Breaking News, Outreach & Dissemination
Malignant gliomas are the most common malignant and aggressive primary brain tumors in adults, the prognosis being—especially for glioblastomas—extremely poor. There are no effective treatments yet. However, tyrosine kinase receptor (TKR) inhibitors and boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT), together, have been proposed as future therapeutic strategies. In this sense in our ongoing project of developing new anti-glioblastoma drugs, we identified a sunitinib-carborane hybrid agent, 1, with both in vitro selective cytotoxicity and excellent BNCT-behavior.
Do you know who is known as the "Queen of carbon", or who was the first woman to receive a salary as a scientist? Do you know since when we celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, or when did the CSIC launch the "Women and Science Committee"?
The ICMAB will be the host institution of four new postdoctoral researchers within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Individual Fellowships (IF) H2020 programme, granted by the European Commission.
New Projects, Breaking News, 2021
We would like to invite you to the following Online ICMAB Periodical Lecture of 2021:
Laser-Light for Epitaxy
by Hans Boschker, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany
Monday, 1 March 2020 @ 12 pm
Online Invited Seminar by Zoom. Register here to attend
Periodical Lectures & Invited Seminars
The spin–spin interactions between unpaired electrons in organic (poly)radicals, especially nitroxides, are largely investigated and are of crucial importance for their applications in areas such as organic magnetism, molecular charge transfer, or multiple spin labeling in structural biology. Recently, 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidinyloxyl and polymers functionalized with nitroxides have been described as successful redox mediators in several electrochemical applications; however, the study of spin–spin interaction effect in such an area is absent.
We received a total of 81 illustrations of real and imaginary women scientists and shared them on Twitter and Youtube.
Women in Science, Outreach & Dissemination
Self‐propelled particles and, in particular, those based on mesoporous silica, have raised considerable interest due to their potential applications in the environmental and biomedical fields thanks to their biocompatibility, tunable surface chemistry and large porosity. Although spherical particles have been widely used to fabricate nano‐ and micromotors, not much attention has been paid to other geometries, such as nanorods.
Doctor Zheng Ma from the Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites (NN) group at ICMAB, defended his PhD thesis titled "Synthesis and Characterization of ε-Fe2O3 Nanoparticles and Thin Films" on Tuesday, 9 February 2021 in an online session. Congrats!
The radio programme "Les dones i els dies" in Catalunya Radio, led by Montse Virgili, talked about the Matilda Effect with three scientists: Maria José Yzuel (UAB), Sònia Estradé (UB) and Arancha González (ICMAB).
The combination of light‐emitting diodes (LEDs) and rare earth (RE) phosphors as color‐converting layers comprises the basis of solid‐state lighting. Indeed, most LED lamps include a photoluminescent coating made of phosphor material, i.e., crystalline matrix suitably doped with RE elements, to produce white light from a blue or ultraviolet LED chip.
The program offers a mentor to PhD researchers to aid them during this part of their career.
New Projects, Breaking News, 2021
Hello there! My name is Rubén Ortigosa Robles. I am finishing the degree in Chemical of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. I am going to do my final degree project (TFG) at ICMAB, under the supervision of Dr. Mariano Campoy and Dr. Bernhard Dörling, relevant to thermoelectric devices composed of carbon nanotubes and polymers (PBTTT). I will be varying their concentrations and working temperatures, in some cases I will use dopants, to obtain the most optimal thermoelectric yield possible. In the future, I would like try combine thermoelectric cells with photovoltaic cells.
npj Quantum Mater. 5, 86 (2020)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41535-020-00289-z
Spin-spiral multiferroics exhibit a magnetoelectric coupling effects, leading to the formation of hybrid domains with inseparably entangled ferroelectric and antiferromagnetic order parameters. Due to this strong magnetoelectric coupling, conceptually advanced ways for controlling antiferromagnetism become possible and it has been reported that electric fields and laser pulses can reversibly switch the antiferromagnetic order.
A postdoctoral position is opening in the framework of the ERC CAMBAT project on "Calcium and magnesium metal anode based batteries" with ICMAB researcher Alexandre Ponrouch.
Doctor Ana Begoña Buades from the Inorganic Materials And Catalysis Lab (LMI) at ICMAB, defended her PhD thesis titled "Metallacarboranes: Synthesis of Boron-Heteroatom Derivatives and Applications in Energy and Magnetism" on Thursday, 28 January 2021 in an online session. Congrats!
The journal ChemNanoMat (Chemistry of Nanomaterials for Energy, Biology and More) published the cover of the article "Nanorods Based on Mesoporous Silica Containing Iron Oxide Nanoparticles as Catalytic Nanomotors: Study of Motion Dynamics".
Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 5027
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201905395
Doctor Camilla Dore from the Nanostructured Materials for Optoelectronics and Energy Harvesting (NANOPTO) group at ICMAB, defended her PhD thesis titled "Hydroxypropyl Cellulose as Enabling Material for the Nanofabrication of Photonic Architectures" on Friday, 29 January 2021 in an online session. Congrats!
Periodical Lectures & Invited Seminars, Women in Science
Doctor Rogger P. Palacios from the Physical Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces (SURFACES) group at ICMAB, defended his PhD thesis titled "Structure and Electronic Properties at Molecular Level of Organic Structures" on Wednesday, 27 January 2021 in an online session. Congrats!
We would like to invite you to the first Online ICMAB Periodical Lecture of 2021:
by Claudio Cazorla, Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona
Monday, 15 February 2020 @ 12 pm
Online Invited Seminar by Zoom. Register here to attend.
PostDoc Talks cycle
Periodical Lectures & Invited Seminars, 2020
In this study, researchers have demonstrated that by feeding machine-learning algorithms with high-throughput experimental datasets, it is possible to retrieve predictive models for the performance of organic solar cells.
Press Release, Top Science Results, Breaking News, 2021
Join the Smart4Fabry Final Workshop to learn from expert speakers how, why and for what the solution proposed by Smart4Fabry was conceived, a sign of cooperation at European level to boost nanomedicine development and translation to clinical stages.
Researchers have used a combination of cerium oxide nanoparticles and manganese metal organic precursor in the laser targets for the synthesis of a hybrid material. The used laser deposition technique allowed the versatile fabrication of high-performance supercapacitor electrodes.
Press Release, Top Science Results
This year, to celebrate the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we will have an inspiring talk about Emmy Noether by Dolors Herbera, UAB Professor in Mathematics.
Periodical Lectures & Invited Seminars, Women in Science
The online nanoGe Spring Meeting is a unique series of symposia focused on advanced materials preparation and fundamental properties and their applications, in fields such as renewable energy (photovoltaics, batteries), lighting, semiconductor quantum dots, 2-D materials synthesis and semiconductors fundamentals, bioimaging, etc.
Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 13935
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202002123
The TV programme "... i bona lletra!" from El 9 TV interviewed on 22 January 2021 Mariona Coll to talk about her new project on new materials for photovoltaics received by the BBVA Foundation Leonardo Grant programme.
The Societat Catalana de Química (SCQ) has been publishing the highlights in Chemical Research in Catalunya for the last two decades. Between the pages of the latest Edition we can find two publications by ICMAB Researchers who have made significant contributions to the field this year.
