Anna May

Martí and Anna with their contributions at the NANOSELECT Annual Meeting 2016

Written by Anna May on June 10, 2016. Posted in Conferences, News.

The NANOSELECT Annual Meeting in Sant Feliu de Guíxols has ended.The meeting has been full of talks about different topics, such as functional oxides, ferromagnetic materials, superconductors (YBCO and others), semiconductors for water splitting, Nanocosmos, alternatives of Li-ion batteries, and many other interesting topics. The meeting was held in Eden Roc, a nice hotel in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, between 8th and 19th June.

Here you can find the contributions of the N&N Group, Martí Gich giving the talk “Ferroelectric domains and polarization switching ine-Fe₂O₃“, and the poster “Magnetic properties above room temperature in magnetoelectric e-Fe₂O₃“, and Anna May with the poster ““Photocatalytic hybrid nanocomposites of bacterial cellulose and Au/TiO₂ nanoparticles for hydrogen production“.

Martí Gich and Anna May at the NANOSELECT Annual Meeting 2016

Written by Anna May on June 7, 2016. Posted in Conferences, News.

The NANOSELECT (Advanced materials and NANOtechnologies for innovative electrical, ELECTronic and magnetoelectronic devices) celebrates its Annual Meeting on 8th-10th June 2016 in Sant Feliu de Guíxols (Girona). The Network of Excellence (NOE) NANOSELECT is a natural continuation of the corresponding Consolider Project which was focused in Functional Oxide Materials. The Meeting will be also supported by the Severo Ochoa Program.

Martí will give the talk on “Ferroelectric domains and polarization switching in e-Fe₂O₃“, and will present the poster “Magnetic properties above room temperature in magnetoelectric e-Fe₂O₃“, whereas Anna will present the poster on “Photocatalytic hybrid nanocomposites of bacterial cellulose and Au/TiO₂ nanoparticles for hydrogen production“.

The program of the meeting is found here: NANOSELECT NOE_06062016.

Poster Prize for Anna May at the “Functional hybrid materials” workshop and training school in Stockholm

Written by Anna May on May 28, 2016. Posted in Awards and scholarships, Conferences, News.

Poster Prize for Anna May at the workshop and training school “Functional hybrid materials: Structure elucidation from molecular to macro level”, within the “Trends in Inorganic Chemistry (TINC)” series.

Anna presented the poster “Photocatalytic hybrid nanocomposites of bacterial cellulose and Au/TiO₂ nanoparticles for hydrogen production”, a work in collaboration with the Institut de Tècniques Energètiques (INTE-UPC), and within the National Project Engineering Bacterial Cellulose (E-BCN).

This event, held in Stockholm University (May 25th-27th), was organized by the Division of Inorganic Chemistry of the Swedish Chemical Society, within the EU COST action MP1202 “Rational design of hybrid organic-inorganic interfaces: the next step towards advanced functional materials”. The Poster Prize was sponsored by the International Sol-Gel Society.

Jana Segmehl, from ETH Zurich, and who did an Internship in our group at ICMAB, also attended the workshop and presented the poster “Functional hybrid materials based on hierarchical structured cellulose scaffolds”, in which Anna Laromaine and Anna Roig are co-authors.

The program and speakers are available on the event website. A flyer of the event is found here.

Event website: http://tinc.nu/

Update 07/06/2016: The news appears on the International Sol-Gel Society webpage!

Update 06/10/2016: Picture of the participants in the HINT COST ACTION webpage!

Anna Roig invited to the Nano2016 conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Written by Anna May on May 9, 2016. Posted in Conferences, News.

Anna Roig is in Buenos Aires this week, to attend the Nano 2016 conference. The topic of the conference is “Surfaces and Nanostructured Materials”.

Anna will give a plenary lecture on Friday, May 13th (9:00 – 10:00 am), entitled “Bio-identity of protein-coated spions evaluated in cells and in vivo by the C. elegans model”.

Before the conference, there is a school for graduate students and young researchers, in which she will give a lecture on “Introduction to medical imaging techniques and their relationship with nanotechnology”. This will be on Monday, May 9th (9:00 – 11:30 am).

Apart from the conference, Anna will take the opportunity to give three seminars in three different centers:

Instituto de Química y Fisicoquímica Biológicas, IQUIFIB-CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
Instituto de Física La Plata – Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)
CIOp – Centro de Investigaciones Ópticas– CONICET, La Plata

Pol Sallés

Written by Anna May on May 6, 2016. Posted in Former Members, People.

Project Researcher
March – September 2016
Topic: Functionalizaitn of cotton fibers with nanoparticles by microwave synthesis.
Current position: M.Sc. student in Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion (Erasmus Mundus in Toulose, Krakow and Córdoba).

World day for safety and health at work 2016

Written by Anna May on April 28, 2016. Posted in Group activities, News.

Today, 28 April, is the World day for safety and health at work. This year, “Workplace Stress: a collective challenge” is the theme of the campaign.

In the N&N Group we are really aware of all the issues concerning lab safety, waste management, and health at work. That is why we would like to share 10 simple tips with you:

Never work alone in the lab. If working alone, leave the door open.
Work with labcoat, glasses and gloves.
Work under the fumehood when working with solvents and/or nanoparticles.
Be aware of what is happening around you in the lab.
Label all your samples and products, and leave a note if you leave an experiment running.
Be aware of the potential risks of the products you are using: corrosive, flammable, harmful for the environment, etc.
Separate well the residues generated.
Properly clean the glassware and equipment that you use and your workplace.
Before leaving the lab, make sure everything is in order.
Keep calm and work safe!

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Tomorrow (Friday, 11 am) there is a talk at ICMAB on “Waste generation and management in research centers and its committment with the environment”. We encourage you to go!

New course! Nanotechnology: lights and shadows of the control of matter at the atomic scale

Written by Anna May on April 27, 2016. Posted in Conferences, News.

Anna Roig will give a lecture in the new course of “Nanotechnology: lights and shadows of the control of matter at the atomic scale” organized by the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP), that will take place in Santander (Cantabria) between 11-15th July 2016. Anna’s lecture is entitled “Manufacture and integration of nanomaterials in products and devices”.

If you would like to attend the course, specially recommended for 3rd and 4th year students of scientific degrees (but open to everybody), or for more information about the speakers and the program, please visit the course website.

http://www.uimp.es/agenda-link.html?id_actividad=632Q&anyaca=2016-17

Martí Gich and Laura Asturias attended the 30-Month Meeting of the FP7 COMMON SENSE project at DCU, IRELAND

Written by Anna May on April 11, 2016. Posted in News, Projects News.

Martí Gich and Laura Asturias attended the 30-Month Meeting of the FP7 COMMON SENSE project at Dublin City University, in Ireland, on April 6^th – 7^th, 2016.

The COMMON SENSE project‘s title is “Cost-effective sensors, interoperable with international existing ocean observing systems, to meet EU policies requirements“, and the main topic of this meeting was Work Package 7: Sensors for in-situ monitoring of heavy metals. The COMMON SENSE project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (Ocean 2013-2) under the grant agreement n^o 614155.

Laura Asturias giving the presentation in the meeting.

Anna Laromaine gives a seminar on Nanomedicine in the 10alamenos9 festival

Written by Anna May on April 6, 2016. Posted in Conferences, News, Science outreach.

005_AL_mod Anna Laromaine gave a seminar yesterday April 5th at the Facultat de Ciències-UAB, as part of the activities organized during the Festival of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (10alamenos9), in which the ICMAB collaborated. The topic of the seminar was Nanomedicine, which, according to Anna, is “the use of the nanotechnology for medical applications”, such as diagnosis, medical therapies, drug delivery, tissue regeneration, and the understanding of cellular systems.

Other seminars during the festival included the following topics: Biosensors by Ma Isabel Pividori, Energy capture and thermoelectrics by Aitor Lopeandía (UAB), Nanoelectronics by Francesc Pérez-Murano (IMB-CNM), an Introduction to nanotechnology by Ma José Esplandiu (ICN2), and Nanotechnology and society by Jordi Pascual (UAB).

Author: Anna May