With the participation of 9 academic institutions and 2 industrial organisations in 6 countries, the SEPOMO European H2020 MSCA-ITN network is training 15 early-stage researchers during a 3-year period in the fields of Chemistry, Physics, Materials Science and Engineering for efficient photovoltaic devices based on organic molecules. Two of these fellows are supervised by ICMAB researchers: Francesco Silvestri, supervised by Esther Barrena, and Rana Adel Abdelaleim Mohammed, who is doing her research at Eurecat, co-supervised by Mariano Campoy-Quiles.
Resarchers from the NANOMOL group at the ICMAB-CSIC and from CIBER-BBN, led by Dr. Imma Ratera, have been awarded with a project from Fundació La Marató de TV3 for the coordinated-project about prevention of infections related with vascular catheters: "Prevenció d’infeccions relacionades amb els CATèters vasculars mitjançant la FUNcionalització de catèters impregnats d'hidrogels activables tèrmicament amb antimicrobians d’ampli espectre (FUNCATH)".
The paper Direct and converse piezoelectric responses at the nanoscale from epitaxial BiFeO3 thin films grown by polymer assisted deposition published this October in the Nanoscale journal, has received funding from the EU-H2020 research and innovation programme, having benefitted from the access provided by the ICMAB-CSIC in Barcelona, within the framework of the NFFA-Europe Transnational Access Activity.
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!
Dr. Lourdes Fàbrega, from the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), leads the development in Spain of a special type of sensors that can detect very small changes in temperature and that will be used in the forthcoming European space missions.
These sensors are extremely sensitive and miniaturized microcalorimeters, like small thermometers, that can detect even the energy of one single photon.
This year the ICMAB counted with 7 out of the 34 fellowships for Master students that the CSIC distributed among the five Severo Ochoa Centres of Excellence of the CSIC (Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas (ICMAT), Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB), Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), Instituto de Neurociencias (IN) and Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB); and the Structural Biology Unit of Excellence María de Maeztu. The 7 granted students will do their Master Thesis Project with one of our researchers during 5 months, and will receive 5,000 €.
Continuing the Strategic Vision for the Severo Ochoa programme FUNMAT ("Smart FUNctional MATerials for social grand challenges"), the ICMAB opened the call for the third edition of the Frontier Interdisciplinary Projects (FIP) earlier this year 2018. Out of all the proposals submitted, 9 projects in different fields have been granted.
The Comfuturo program (“Un Compromiso público privado con la ciencia y el Futuro”) has granted the research project "NANOingeniería de ÓXIdos para el mayor aprovechamiento de la energía SOLar usando rutas no convencionales (NANOXISOL)" (Oxides nanoengineering for improvement of photovoltaic efficiency using non-conventional routes) presented by Ignasi Fina in this second edition.
On April 5, 2018, the first CARBAT project meeting was celebrated. The meeting was held at the CARBAT coordinator's research institute, Prof. M. Rosa Palacín, the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) in Bellaterra. CARBAT is a FET Open research and innovation action in the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, funded over the H2020-FETOPEN-2016-2017 call, which started on October 2017.
A new European-funded project that started in February 2018 is enabling greater cooperation between SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) and research centres in the Spain-France border regions. Coordinated by the Basque company BihurCrystal, the ICMAB researcher Dr. Xavier Torrelles is contibuting to the project. Here we present the official press release.
The week 12-18 March 2018 is the Brain Awareness Week (BAW), a global campaign to increase public awareness of the progress and benefits of brain research. Every March, BAW unites the efforts of partner organizations worldwide in a celebration of the brain for people of all ages.
Bacterial cellulose biopolymer
Wounds in plants can be caused by several agents like weather events (hail, wind…), predators (herbivores, insects) or humans (pruning, grafting), among others.
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 at ICMAB, has actively participated in this European project, in a consortium that consists of 20 partners from 8 member states - 6 universities, 6 institutes, 1 technological center and 8 industrial companies.
ICMAB is one of the host institutions of the NFFA-Europe project for the synthesis and characterisation at the nanoscale across Europe, which started in 2015 and will last until the end of 2018.
The second internal call of the Frontier Interdisciplinary Projects (FIP) within the FUNMAT Severo Ochoa programme has been resolved: 8 projects have been granted, out of the 18 proposals submitted in the FIP Call 2017.
The Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB), in collaboration with the pharmaceutical company Almirall, and the Leitat Technology Center, will develop two types of nanocapsules with active principles for the treatment of inflammatory skin diseases such as acne and psoriasis.
The ICMAB spin-off Oxolutia and BSH Spain will collaborate to improve the performance of materials in the R & D phase.
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.
A sensor platform to detect heavy metals has been developed within the COMMON SENSE project and presented during its final event, last Friday 27th January. The partners that participated in the development of this sensor platform are Dublin City University (DCU), DropSens, National Center of Microelectronics (CNM-IMB) (CSIC), and the Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites Group (NN) at ICMAB (CSIC).
Los pasados 13 y 14 de octubre se llevó a cabo en Barcelona, en la Casa de Convalescència, una reunión de coordinación del desarrollo del detector europeo para el instrumento X-IFU, el espectrómetro de alta resolución espectral de ATHENA, el futuro telescopio de rayos X de la Agencia Europea del Espacio (ESA), que será lanzado en el 2028.
El “Combating Zika and Future Threats Grand Challenge” de USAID ha sido otorgado a un equipo de expertos liderado por Krijn Paaijmans, investigador de ISGlobal, para desarrollar prototipos funcionales de barreras eléctricas contra mosquitos (EMBs) que protegen contra picaduras de mosquitos transmisores de enfermedades como el dengue, chikungunya, zika y malaria.
Solo dos grupos de investigación del CSIC participarán en proyectos financiados por la primera convocatoria de Comunitats RIS3CAT de ACCIO. El Departamento Nanomol del ICMAB, que participa en el proyecto Nanonafres liderado por Leitat, es uno de ellos. El CSIC presentó 7 proyectos en 5 Comunidades
MOSQUITO MIST NETS FOR THE SURVEILLANCE OF DISEASE VECTORS: FROM THE LAB TO FIELD APPLICATION IN MOZAMBIQUE.
Researchers from the Nanomol group of the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) participate in the NANONAFRES project coordinated by the company Nanomol Technologies S.L, spin-off of the CSIC. The study is carried out within the framework of the RIS3CAT project of the TEC-SALUT Community.
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 renewable energy and global research projects such as CERN and ITER. In addition, the results could also be applied to a future all-electric airplane.
As part of the Strategic Vision for the Severo Ochoa programme FUNMAT ("Smart FUNctional MATerials for social grand challenges"), ICMAB-CSIC has just opened the 2016 call for Frontier Interdisciplinary Projects (FIP)
Els investigadors postdoctorals, provinents de 14 països diferents, s’incorporaran als centres de l’Esfera UAB-CEI en els propers mesos. El programa de contractació d’investigadors P-SPHERE obrirà una segona convocatòria la propera tardor.
El projecte NFFA Europe engega amb una jornada a Milà en la que presentarà les infraestructures més important a Europa per a la investigació en nanociència i explicarà els serveis i instal·lacions que ofereix a investigadors i empreses.
L'NFFA-Europe compta a més amb el Sincrotró ALBA i dos centres de recerca que han obtingut la menció Severo Ochoa a la excel·lència científica i gaudeixen de reconeixement internacional en la recerca de nanociència i nanotecnologia: l'Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2) i l'Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB), un altre centre del CSIC ubicat al campus de Bellaterra de la Universitat.
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El manresà Gerard Tobías, investigador de l'Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB), i la santvicentina Belén Ballesteros, de l'Institut de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2), han estat al capdavant del projecte RADDEL, en què han participat una quarantena d'investigadors d'onze universitats i centres europeus d'Alemanya, Itàlia, el Regne Unit i la República Txeca, entre d'altres.
