Farewell to Pengfei
Last pict of 
Pengfei and colleagues before flying tonight to US. He will start a post-doc at NIST in Washington DC. Best luck Pengfei, we will miss you
Author: Anna Roig
Paper Accepted in ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering
Protective effects of Bovine Serum Albumin on superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles evaluated in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
Laura Gonzalez-Moragas, Si-Ming Yu, Elisa Carenza, Anna Laromaine*, Anna Roig
Nanomaterials have unique biological reactivity that need to be thoroughly investigated. In this context, the use of simple in vivo models to biologically evaluate nanoparticles is currently in increasing demand as they offer low-cost and information-rich experiments. In this work, we evaluated how surface modification (citrate and protein-coated) of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles induces changes in their toxicological profile and biodistribution using the animal model Caenorhabditis elegans and combining techniques from materials science and biochemistry.
Pavel Levkin, ICMAB SEMINAR SERIES: 5th OCTOBER at 12:00 h, Conference room
Biofunctional polymer surfaces: from superhydrophobicity to high-throughput cell screening
Excellent cum laude for Pengfei Niu PhD thesis!
NN group members would like to congratulate Pengefei for his excellent work on the PhD defense!
Pengfei Thesis is entitled Carbon Xerogel Nanocomposite Materials for Electrochemical Devices: Application to Heavy Metal Detection and has been supervised by Martí Gich from the NN group and by César Fernández-Sánchez from Grup de Transductors Químics of the Microelectronics Institute.
Publication at Nanoscale: Magnetic gold nanotriangles by microwave-assisted polyol synthesis
Nanoscale, 2015,7, 14039-14046, DOI: 10.1039/C5NR03113C
Received 12 May 2015, Accepted 16 Jul 2015, First published online 21 Jul 2015
Simple approaches to synthesize hybrid nanoparticles with magnetic and plasmonic functionalities, with high control of their shape and avoiding cytotoxic reactants, to target biomedical applications remain a huge challenge. Here, we report a facile, fast and bio-friendly microwave-assisted polyol route for the synthesis of a complex multi-material consisting of monodisperse gold nanotriangles around 280 nm in size uniformly decorated by superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles of 5 nm. These nanotriangles are readily dispersible in water, display a strong magnetic response (10 wt% magnetic fraction) and exhibit a localized surface plasmon resonance band in the NIR region (800 nm). Moreover, these hybrid particles can be easily self-assembled at the liquid–airinterfaces.
Excel.lent cum laude for Siming PhD thesis!
n&n group members would like to congratulate Siming for his good work on the PhD defense.
Martí Gich secures funding with an EXPLORA PROJECT 2015
Congratulations Martí!
NN Group offers three projects under the framework of Marie Sklodowska- Curie Individual Fellowships
Marie Sklodowska- Curie Individual Fellowship (Call MSCA IF 2015) is open offering multiple opportunities to experienced researchers to return and reintegrate in Europe.
There are 8 scientific areas established for MSCA. Our group offers 3 interdisciplinar projects under this framework (see attachments)
1.Field of PHYSICS, Optoelectronics in room-temperature multiferroic iron oxide.
2. Field of CHEMISTRY, Engineering novel magnetic nano-biomaterials to address tissue repair guided by angiogenesis.
3.Field of LIFE SCIENCE, Assessing nanoparticles in 3D biological environments, from cell culture to C. elegans.
If you are interested, please contact us and we will assist you.
IMPORTANT, DEADLINE IS 10 SEPTEMBER 2015!!
Paper accepted in Chem. Eng. J.
We want to congratulate to Laura and Siming for the acceptance of the paper “Scale-up synthesis of iron oxide nanoparticles by microwave-assisted thermal decomposition” in Chemical Engineering Journal by Laura González-Moragas, SiMing Yu (equal contributors), Nerea Murillo, Anna Laromaine, Anna Roig.
Success in the HINT -BCN Workshop
Dr. Fernando Novio (ICN2) and Dr. Anna Laromaine (ICMAB) organized last 8-9th of June the HINT-BCN Workshop with success. Invited speakers and poster contributions were of great quality! From here, we would like to thank the group members for their help during the workshop!
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Address: ICMAB-CSIC Campus de la UAB, 08193 Bellaterra
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Phone: + 34 935 801 853 (CSIC)
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Fax: + 34 935 805 729
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Email: roig@icmab.es
The N&N group participates in the @NextGEM_eu project, for which we prepared this video explaining how we work with c.elegans. 🪱
👉 Dr. @PolAlonso1 explains how we use these nematodes and why they are useful for assessing biological effects.
#BioEM #5G
We are thrilled to announce that Dr. @AnnaRoig8 from the @NNgroupICMAB research group (@icmabCSIC, Barcelona, Spain) will be offering a talk on "Opportunities of bacterial nanocellulose in healthcare". This Wednesday at 12.15h at the BBT Weekly Meetings, at @EEBE_UPC