Year: 2012

New publication!

Written by JAGS on December 17, 2012. Posted in New publications, News.

Hot from the press-
New publication entitled 2D Magnetic Frames Obtained by the Microwave-Assisted Chemistry Approach by Oana Pascu, Martí Gich, Gervasi Herranz, and Anna Roig in Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201101244.

First 2013 publication by Nerea Murillo-Cremaes et al.

Written by JAGS on December 14, 2012. Posted in New publications, News.

The research on drug impregnation of different carriers using supercritical fluids and its in vitro release conducted by Nerea Murillo-Cremaes et al. has been published online in the first 2013 number of The Journal of Supercriticla Fluids as: “Nanostructured silica-based drug delivery vehicles for hydrophobic and moisture sensitive drugs” (Nerea Murillo-Cremaes, Ana M. López-Periago, Javier Saurina, Anna Roig, Concepción Domingo, The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, Volume 73, January 2013, Pages 34–42, doi:10.1016/j.supflu.2012.11.006).

Visit and Seminar of Dr. Kislon Voïtchovsky

Written by JAGS on November 6, 2012. Posted in General News.

Dr. Kislon Voïtchovsky from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) will visit our group and give a seminar at the ICMAB with the title: “Solid-liquid interfaces at the nanoscale: what can we learn from the liquid?“

19 Nov, 12:00, ICMAB

Visit and Seminar of Dr. Özge Akbulut

Written by JAGS on November 6, 2012. Posted in General News.

Dr. Özge Akbulut from Sabanci University (Turkey) will visit our group and give a seminar at ICMAB with the title:“Utilization of Multiphase systems (MuPSs) in separations of objects”.

16 Nov, 16:00, ICMAB

Website of Dr. Özge’s Group: http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/ozgeakbulut/index.html

Anna Laromaine will participate as invited speaker to the Rethinking Nano Workshop

Written by JAGS on October 18, 2012. Posted in Conferences, News, Science outreach.

This event will gather in Barcelona on November 8^th different experts in medicine, biology, electronics, energy, chemistry, physics and nanoregulation to crytically discuss about the truly revolutionary outcomes of the recent nanotechnology fever and forsee what makes sense to be developed in the near future.

Welcome to Si Ming Yu!

Written by JAGS on October 3, 2012. Posted in News, Welcome and farewell.

Si Ming has joined us for the next three years as a CSC fellow. He is a gradute in Food Engineering from the South China University of Technology in Guangzhou and will prepare a Ph.D. on the Interactions in Three-dimensional environments of Nanoparticles and Cells under the supervision of Anna Laromaine. We wish him a great success with his work and an enriching personal experience among us.

Welcome to Lijiao Hu!

Written by JAGS on October 3, 2012. Posted in General News.

Lijiao is a gradute from the Northwes A&F University in China and is currently a CSC fellow at the Nagoya University in Japan where he is preparing his PhD THesis doing research in Cooper Oxide nanoflowers. He is here in the framework of a Short Stay scheme financed by the japanese government. He will work under the supervision of Anna Roig in the synthesis of complex nanoparticles with microwaves.

Elena Taboada

Written by JAGS on October 2, 2012. Posted in Former Members.

Ph.D. Student
October 2004-November 2009
Thesis: Synthesis of gamma-Fe₂O₃-SiO₂ composite nanoparticles targeting magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic hyperthermia applications.
Current position: Departamento de I+D das-Nano S.L., Navarra, Spain

Welcome to Pengfei Niu!

Written by JAGS on September 27, 2012. Posted in News, Welcome and farewell.

Pengfei is a Master Graduate in Polymer Composites from the Univesity of Sichuan in Chengdu (China). He will spend 3 years with us thanks to the financial support of the China Scholarship Council to complete a Ph.D. working in the development of nanocomposite sensors prepared by Sol-Gel chemistry. We wish him plenty of scientific and personal success.

Welcome to Zeynep Ergonenc!

Written by JAGS on September 19, 2012. Posted in General News.

Zeynep is a master student at the University of Vienna and will be with us for a 6 month internship under the supervision of Anna Laromaine. We wish her a successful research and a pleasant stay at ICMAB.