News

Welcome Aylin at ICMAB!

Nombre y apellidos: Aylin Aguirre Morán
Hello! My name is Aylin and I'm 22 years old. Actually I'm studying Geology at UAB, this is my last semester of university and I will do the TFG about sandstones with ICMAB. In my spare time I do yoga and I love do trekking. See you at ICMAB!

Spain

  • Hits: 866

Severo Ochoa School: Angle Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy #ARPES2023

Date : 2023-02-06

Welcome to ARPES 2023, our Severo Ochoa School on Angle Resolved Photoemision Spectroscopy (ARPES): from fundamentals to the heart of condensed matter.

A school on photoelectron spectroscopy for beginners, organized by ICMAB-CSIC with the collaboration of ALBA Synchrotron, on 6-7 February 2023. 

In the era of Quantum Technologies, understanding and mapping electronic excitations has proved to be instrumental to identify emerging properties of matter. Angle Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy (ARPES) is a major tool to inspect the intricate playground of charge-spin lattice interactions and how they affect the properties of the electronic degrees of freedom.

Courses and Workshops, Breaking News, timeline

  • Hits: 848
Miquel Nuez with supervisor Clara Viñas and PhD Committee | ICMAB, CSIC

Congratulations Doctor Miquel Nuez, new ICMAB PhD graduate!

Doctor Miquel Nuez Martínez from the Inorganic Materials & Catalysis (LMI) group at ICMAB-CSIC defended his PhD thesis titled "El paradigma dels metal·lacarborans: ús dels clústers en tractaments de càncer, contra bacteris resistents i en catàlisi verda" on Friday, 25 November 2022 at the UAB.    

PhD Congrats

  • Hits: 561

Boron-Based Functional Additives Enable Solid Electrolyte Interphase Engineering in Calcium Metal Battery

Título : Boron-Based Functional Additives Enable Solid Electrolyte Interphase Engineering in Calcium Metal Battery
Autores: Dr. Charlotte Bodin, Dr. Juan Forero Saboya, Dr. Piotr Jankowski, Dr. Kristian Radan, Dr. Dominique Foix, Dr. Cécile Courrèges, Dr. Ibraheem Yousef, Prof. Rémi Dedryvère, Dr. Carine Davoisne, Dr. Matic Lozinšek, Dr. Alexandre Ponrouch
Citation and DOI: Batteries & Supercaps 2022, e202200433.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/batt.202200433
PlumX: Boron-Based Functional Additives Enable Solid Electrolyte Interphase Engineering in Calcium Metal Battery
Calcium-metal batteries have received growing attention recently after several studies reporting successful metal plating and stripping with organic electrolytes. Given the low redox potential of metallic calcium, its surface is commonly covered by a passivation layer grown by the accumulation of electrolyte decomposition products.The presence of borate species in this layer has been shown to be a key parameter allowing for Ca2+ migration and favoring Ca electrodeposition. Here, boron-based additives are evaluated in order to tune the SEI composition, morphology, and properties.

Energy

  • Hits: 488
Xavier Obradors receiving the award | Ajuntament de Manresa

Xavier Obradors, Premi Bages de Cultura 2022 Òmnium Bages-Moianès

Press Links:
Xavier Obradors, ICMAB Director and Research Professor, received the Premi Bages de Cultura 2022 award, surrounded by friends, family and colleagues, in the Manresa City Council on Friday 25 Nov 2022. 

This year marks the 40th edition of an award that has the purpose to distinguish a person from the Bages culture for the dissemination work within a particular artistic and cultural sphere.

"Moltes gràcies a tots i desitjo un magnífic futur a l’impuls incansable de les iniciatives d’Òmnium Cultural, de la ciutat de Manresa, de la comarca del Bages i de tota la Catalunya interior" - Xavier Obradors.

Staff Awards, Press Release, Breaking News, timeline, Press Review

  • Hits: 5845

#25N “International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women”

On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the CSIC Women and Science Committee and the CSIC Delegate Committee for Equality have prepared the following joint communication. 

The ICMAB Gender Equality Committee at ICMAB works to ensure that there are no inequalities or discriminations for reasons of gender, race, age, nationality at ICMAB, is the main consultation point for anyone who has any issue regarding these topics, and makes available all the resources and tools (from CSIC, MCIN...) to the ICMAB staff and provides training in the matter, so they know what to do when something related to work or sexual harassment, inequalities, bias, or any other discrimination happens. 

Women in Science, Breaking News

  • Hits: 611

Temperature-induced polymorphism of a benzothiophene derivative: reversibility and impact on the thin film morphology

Título : Temperature-induced polymorphism of a benzothiophene derivative: reversibility and impact on the thin film morphology
Autores: Shunya Yan, Alba Cazorla, Adara Babuji, Eduardo Solano, Christian Ruzié, Yves H. Geerts, Carmen Ocal * and Esther Barrena *
Citation and DOI: Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2022,24, 24562-24569
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CP03467K
PlumX: Temperature-induced polymorphism of a benzothiophene derivative: reversibility and impact on the thin film morphology
The identification of polymorphs in organic semiconductors allows for establishing structure-property relationships and gaining understanding of microscopic charge transport physics. Thin films of 2,7-bis(octyloxy)[1]benzothieno[3,2-b]-benzothiophene (C8O–BTBT–OC8) exhibit a substrate-induced phase (SIP) that differs from the bulk structure, with important implications for the electrical performance in organic field effect transistors (OFETs).
  • Hits: 484

PS-b-P4VP block copolymer micelles as a soft template to grow openly porous nickel films for alkaline hydrogen evolution

Título : PS-b-P4VP block copolymer micelles as a soft template to grow openly porous nickel films for alkaline hydrogen evolution
Autores: Roberto Fagotto Clavijo, Marta Riba-Moliner, Arántzazu González-Campo, Jordi Sort, Eva Pellicer, Konrad Eilera
Citation and DOI: Catalysis Today Available online 30 September 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cattod.2022.09.022
PlumX: PS-b-P4VP block copolymer micelles as a soft template to grow openly porous nickel films for alkaline hydrogen evolution
Highly porous Ni films have been potentiostatically synthesised by micelle-assisted electrodeposition using custom-made PS-b-P4VP block copolymer micelles as a soft template. Two PS-b-P4VP block copolymers with PS/P4VP block ratios of 1:1 and 1:4 were used for the micelle-assisted electrodeposition, resulting in Ni films with large pores of diameters varying from 25 to 600 nm (1:1), and from 10 to 230 nm (1:4).

Molecular

  • Hits: 493

Welcome Sergio at ICMAB!

Nombre y apellidos: Sergio Mariscal
Hi there! i'm Sergio Mariscal. Actually i'm finishing chemistry degree in UAB and working on degree final proyect "Functional oxides for neuromorphic computing" with Anna Palau. I'm on Superconducting Materials and Nanostructure at Large Scale group.
On my free time i like to do exercise and read. See you around!

Spain

  • Hits: 858

Welcome Maia at ICMAB!

Nombre y apellidos: Maia Esteve Llorca
Hello everybody! My name is Maia and I am a student of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at UAB. I am going to do my bachelor's thesis at the Nanostructured interfaces for electrochemical energy storage group. I am looking forward to learn and make the most of this experience. See you around!

Spain

  • Hits: 966

Welcome Pol Alonso Pernas at ICMAB!

Nombre y apellidos: Pol Alonso Pernas
Hi! My name is Pol and I'm from Rubí, not very far from ICMAB. I studied my Biology degree and a Master in Microbiology at the UAB. Afterwards I moved to Germany to do my PhD and a postdoc. I started in November 2022 in the group of Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites. My project aims to put an answer the question: "will cellphones fry my brain?". For doing that we will expose C. elegans to electromagnetic fields.

In my free time I enjoy running, writing and reading stories and relaxing. See you around!

Spain

  • Hits: 1036

Welcome Àxel Cortés at ICMAB!

Nombre y apellidos: Àxel Cortés
I am a 21 years old guy that likes everything related to the mountains and nature, climbing among it, physics and fantastic literature. Always eager to learn new things.

Spain

  • Hits: 1098

Recyclable optical bioplastics platform for solid state red light harvesting via triplet–triplet annihilation photon upconversion

Título : Recyclable optical bioplastics platform for solid state red light harvesting via triplet–triplet annihilation photon upconversion
Autores: Pankaj Bharmoria, Fredrik Edhborg, Hakan Bildirir, Yoichi Sasaki, Shima Ghasemi, Anders Mårtensson, Nobuhiro Yanai, Nobuo Kimizuka, Bo Albinsson, Karl Börjesson and Kasper Moth-Poulsen
Citation and DOI: J. Mater. Chem. A, 2022,10, 21279-21290
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/D2TA04810H
PlumX: Recyclable optical bioplastics platform for solid state red light harvesting via triplet–triplet annihilation photon upconversion
Sustainable photonics applications of solid-state triplet–triplet annihilation photon upconversion (TTA-UC) are limited by a small UC spectral window, low UC efficiency in air, and non-recyclability of polymeric materials used. In a step to overcome these issues, we have developed new recyclable TTA-UC bioplastics by encapsulating TTA-UC chromophores liquid inside the semicrystalline gelatin films showing broad-spectrum upconversion (red/far-red to blue) with high UC efficiency in air.

Energy

  • Hits: 541

Leading research experts meet at the UAB campus for "Science and Entrepreneurship in Feminine"

Video URL: https://youtu.be/pyY9Vwv52uE
VIDEO Poster Frame:

On 18 November at 9:30 a.m. the UAB offices of the Vice Rector for Innovation and Strategic Projects and the Vice Rector for Students and Employability organise a "Science and Entrepreneurship in Feminine" seminar to raise awareness of women standing out in innovation and entrepreneurship at the UAB campus.

Outreach Videos, Women in Science, Breaking News

  • Hits: 561
Seed | Image by Joe en Pixabay

Two innovative LLAVOR (AGAUR) projects at ICMAB

Two ICMAB reserachers from the NN group have been granted LLAVOR projects to develop novel electromagnetic wireless power transfer technologies in medical devices, and to see the effect of millimeter waves on the reverse-magnetization of ε-Fe2O3 films.

New Projects, timeline

  • Hits: 732

Welcome Álvaro Lozano Roche at ICMAB!

Nombre y apellidos: Álvaro Lozano Roche
My name is Álvaro and I come from Pamplona. I obtained my Chemistry degree at the University of Zaragoza. During my undergraduate I took part in the Erasmus+ programme and spent the last year at the University of Cambridge, where I carried out a reasearch project under the supervision of Professor Dominic Wright. Then, I moved to the Autonomous University of Barcelona to obtain my Master's Degree, and in 2021 I started my PhD in Chemistry at the SelOxCat research group in 2021 under the supervision of Dr. X. Sala, Dr. J. García-Antón and Dr. L. Francàs.

Spain

  • Hits: 1014
Jinhui Hu (in the middle) with supervisors M. Isabel Alonso and Alejandro Goñi at the UAB | ICMAB, CSIC

Congratulations Dr. Jinhui Hu, new ICMAB PhD Graduate!

Doctor Jinhui Hu from the Nanostructured Materials for Optoelectronics and Energy Harvesting (NANOPTO) Group at ICMAB-CSIC, defended his PhD thesis titled "Plasmon-induced photocurrent generation in metal-semiconductor devices with nanofabricated inverted pyramid arrays" on Wednesday, 2 November 2022 at ICMAB.  

PhD Congrats

  • Hits: 600

Charge-Transfer Complexes in Organic Field-Effect Transistors: Superior Suitability for Surface Doping

Título : Charge-Transfer Complexes in Organic Field-Effect Transistors: Superior Suitability for Surface Doping
Autores: Adara Babuji, Alba Cazorla, Eduardo Solano, Carsten Habenicht, Hans Kleemann, Carmen Ocal, Karl Leo*, and Esther Barrena*
Citation and DOI:
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2022, 14, 39, 44632–44641
Publication Date:September 20, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c09168
PlumX: Charge-Transfer Complexes in Organic Field-Effect Transistors: Superior Suitability for Surface Doping
We demonstrate the key role of charge-transfer complexes in surface doping as a successful methodology for improving channel field-effect mobility and reducing the threshold voltage in organic field-effect transistors (OFETs), as well as raising the film conductivity. Demonstrated here for 2,7-dioctyl[1]benzothieno[3,2-b][1]benzothiophene (C8-BTBT) doped with 2,2′-(perfluoronaphthalene-2,6-diylidene)dimalononitrile (F6TCNNQ), channel doping by sequential deposition is consistently rationalized by the development of a cocrystalline structure that forms and evolves from the surface of the organic semiconductor film without trading the thin-film structure integrity.

Molecular

  • Hits: 553
Laura Fuentes with her PhD Thesis | ICMAB-CSIC

Congratulations Dr. Laura Fuentes, new ICMAB PhD graduate!

Doctor Laura Fuentes from the Solid State Chemistry (SSC) Group at ICMAB-CSIC and IMB-CNM-CSIC defended her PhD thesis titled "Electroquímica inalámbrica bipolar. Nuevos hitos y aplicaciones" on Wednesday, 9 November 2022 at ICMAB.  

PhD Congrats

  • Hits: 629

Continuous Carbon Channels Enable Full Na-Ion Accessibility for Superior Room-Temperature Na–S Batteries

Título : Continuous Carbon Channels Enable Full Na-Ion Accessibility for Superior Room-Temperature Na–S Batteries
Autores: Can Wu, Yaojie Lei, Laura Simonelli, Dino Tonti, Ashley Black, Xinxin Lu, Wei-Hong Lai, Xiaolan Cai, Yun-Xiao Wang, Qinfen Gu, Shu-Lei Chou, Hua-Kun Liu, Guoxiu Wang, Shi-Xue Dou
Citation and DOI: Adv. Mater. 202234, 2108363. 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202108363
PlumX: Continuous Carbon Channels Enable Full Na-Ion Accessibility for Superior Room-Temperature Na–S Batteries
Porous carbon has been widely used as an efficient host to encapsulate highly active molecular sulfur (S) in Li–S and Na–S batteries. However, for these sub-nanosized pores, it is a challenge to provide fully accessible sodium ions with unobstructed channels during cycling, particularly for high sulfur content. It is well recognized that solid interphase with full coverage over the designed architectures plays critical roles in promoting rapid charge transfer and stable conversion reactions in batteries, whereas constructing a high-ionic-conductivity solid interphase in the pores is very difficult.

Energy

  • Hits: 506
100xCiencia.6 SOMMa meeting at Palau Reial de Pedralbes | ICMAB, CSIC

Change in the presidency of the SOMMa alliance: María José Sanz replaces María Blasco

Press Links:

María José Sanz, director of the Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), takes over the presidency of the Alliance of Severo Ochoa Centers and María de Maeztu Units (SOMMa) replacing María Blasco, director of the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO).

Press Review, Institutional

  • Hits: 565

The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) meeting will be on 17-18 Nov 2022

Date : 2022-11-17
On 17-18 November 2022, the ICMAB Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) meeting will take place to evaluate the research lines and the overall performance of the Institute. 
 
The SAB is composed of 12 worldwide scientific experts in the areas of the targeted research of our Severo Ochoa project: Smart Functional Materials for a Better Future (FUNFUTURE) in the areas of Clean Energy, Sustainable Electronics and Smart Nanomedicine.

Meetings Organization, Breaking News

  • Hits: 1028

INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA DE MATERIALS DE BARCELONA, Copyright © 2020 ICMAB-CSIC | Privacy Policy | This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.