Irene Anton

Jan defended his Master Thesis in Poland

Written by Irene Anton on July 31, 2017. Posted in Awards and scholarships, General News, Group activities.

Jan Grzelak defended his Master thesis at the University of Warsaw on the 27th of July 2017. His supervisors Anna Laromaine and Martí Gich came to Poland for the defence.

Jan was enrolled in a Master’s in Nanostructure Engineering and the title of the thesis was ‘Synthesis of supports for catalysis with palladium nanoparticles templated by bacterial cellulose’.

He got the highest mark (excellent) for the defence and the final mark from the whole studies was 4.88/5. He will receive a diploma with distinction! Next academic year Jan will be back to the N&N group to do his PhD with a grant from La Caixa.

Congratulations Jan!

High marks for our M.S. and Undegraduate Students!

Written by Irene Anton on July 28, 2017. Posted in General News, Projects News.

Congratulations to our students for their excellent marks in their Research Projects!

Ander Arbide
Undergraduate Student Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, UAB
Title: Thin film C/SiO2 electrodes: detection of heavy metals in water
Supervisor: Martí Gich and César Fernández
Mark: 9.1/10
Date of defense: July 7th, 2017

Miquel Torras

Master’s degree in Applied Materials Chemistry, UB

Title: Fast and simple microwave synthesis of functional multimaterial gold nanoparticles

Supervisor: Anna Roig

Mark: 9.6/10

Date of defense: July 4th, 2017

Olatz Arriaga

Undergraduate Student Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, UAB

Title: Synthesis of nanoparticles by microwave-assisted routes

Supervisor: Anna Roig

Mark: 8.6/10

Date of defense: July 12th, 2017

It has been very nice to work with you this year, the N&N group wishes you good luck with your next projects!

Anna Roig gets an Albus Grifols Scientific Award!

Written by Irene Anton on July 25, 2017. Posted in Awards and scholarships, General News.

Good news!

Anna Roig has been awarded with the Albus Award 2017, one of the Scientific Awards offered by Grifols, the pharmaceutical and chemical multinational company. The Award consists of 50,000 € to carry out the project “Albumin-iron oxide nanocages”.

The Albus Program is an annual international award focused on innovative ideas related to albumin and its role as a therapeutic product. The Program offers two awards of 50,000 € each year. The proposals are assessed by an independent review committee formed by world-wide recognized experts.

Anna’s “Albumin-iron oxide nanocages” project gets inspiration from the apoferritin nanoconstructs. It aims at investigating if albumin nanocages, consisting of a few units of albumin self-assembled and self-standing, can be formed by using inorganic iron oxide nanoparticles as semi-sacrificial templates. The albumin nanocages could then find application as a nanomedicinal product for imaging and drug delivery.

The winners will be given their Awards at a Ceremony that will take place on October 3rd, 2017 in Barcelona.

Two Frontier Interdisciplinary Projects for the N&N group!

Written by Irene Anton on July 21, 2017. Posted in Awards and scholarships, Projects News.

On the 19th of July of 2017, the second internal call of the Frontier Interdisciplinary Projects (FIP) within the FUNMAT Severo Ochoa program was resolved with very good news for the N&N group! Two researcher from the group, Anna Roig and Martí Gich, will participate in two of the eight awarded projects:

Gervasi HERRANZ / Martí GICH: “Enabling Multifunctional Plasmonics on Hybrid Artificial Si-Integrated Systems” (EMPHASIS)
Mariano CAMPOY / Anna ROIG: “Thermoelectric composites” (THERMOPAPER)

Congratulations!

Anna Laromaine invited to NyNA and RICI7

Written by Irene Anton on July 17, 2017. Posted in Conferences, Uncategorized.

Beginning of July was a very busy week for Anna Laromaine! She was invited to two conferences as speaker. fisrt at the VIII International Congress on Analytical Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (NyNA) 2017 held at the Casa Convalescencia in Barcelona from 3-5th of July. Then, from the 6-7th of July, she was invited at the VII Iberian Meeting on Colloids and Interfaces (RICI7) in Madrid. Anna Laromaine’s talks were related to our work on the use of bacterial cellulose and their composites with nanoparticles which were attended with great interest from the audience.

Good job Anna!

N&N members at NANOSELECT annual meeting 2017

Written by Irene Anton on July 13, 2017. Posted in Conferences.

The annual meeting 2017 of the Network of Excellence NANOSELECT (Advanced materials and NANOtechnologies for innovative electrical, ELECTronic and magnetoelectronic devices) took place from July 10th to July 12th 2017 in Sant Feliu de Guíxols (Girona).

Several members of the N&N group (Ma, Martí, Miquel, Anna May and Anna Roig) attended the meeting and participated with the following posters:

Pd nanoparticles on bacterial cellulose templated Al2O3 for catalysis (J. Grzelak, M. Gich and A. Laromaine)
Epitaxial stabilization of epsilon-Fe2O3 thin films without buffer layer (Z. Ma, J. Gàzquez, F. Sánchez and M. Gich)
Multimaterials-nanoparticles by facile microwave-assisted routes (M. Torras, O. Arriaga, P. Sallés, A. May and Anna Roig)

Miquel and Anna May with their shared poster contribution

Anna Roig, invited speaker at the Moscow International Symposium on Magnetism

Written by Irene Anton on July 10, 2017. Posted in Conferences, Uncategorized.

Last 3rd of July 2017, Anna Roig delivered the invited contribution “In-vitro and in-vivo screening of magnetic nanoparticles” at the Moscow International Symposium on Magnetism (MISM-2017). MISM Symposium is held every three years and it takes place at the Lomonosov Moscow State University. More the 1000 participants attended this edition where the communications addressed all aspects of magnetism. Anna Roig’s talk was included in the topic: Magnetism in Biology and Medicine.

The Lomonosov Moscow State Universitym where the MISM 2017 took place

Sole Roig attended BIENAL2017

Written by Irene Anton on June 30, 2017. Posted in Conferences.

From the 25th to the 29th of June of 2017, Sitges hosted the XXVI Biennial Meeting of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry. Soledad Roig, from the N&N group, attended this big congress and gave a talk entitled: Engineering Bacterial Cellulose. She presented her results on the creation of multi-functional materials combining layers of functionalized bacterial cellulose with diverse nanoparticles.

Sole presented her results at the session on “Polymers for a Sustainable Development”

Good job Sole!

Big succes of MATBIO2017!

Written by Irene Anton on June 26, 2017. Posted in Group activities, Science outreach.

Thursday 22nd of June of 2017 was the last day of the first edition of the Scientific School on Materials for Biomedical Applications organized by ICMAB (MATBIO2017). A large number of local and international students attended the school and participated actively on the debates, the science dating and the hands-on sessions. Almost all the participants would repeat this experience according to the surveys.

Anna Laromaine named on the top10 female academics and researchers in Spain!

Written by Irene Anton on June 23, 2017. Posted in Awards and scholarships.

On 21st of June of 2017 in Madrid, the list of the most influential women talents of Spain was published by the association Mujeres & Cía. This list includes athletes, businesswomen, politicians, journalists, and a researcher from the N&N group: Anna Laromaine!

Author: Irene Anton