Welcome Liviu Cosmin Cotet
We welcome Cosmin, who will spend two months in our group.
Interesting: PhD Thesis in nanocrystallization
We are looking for a highly motivated student with strong initiative holding a degree in Physics, Chemistry or Materials Science (or about to finish his/her studies) or having a Master Degree or willing to enroll in the Master Program of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (http://www.uab.es).Excellent qualifications (above 75 %) and a good command of English are essential. The research project aims at studying non-conventional mechanisms to control the crystallization of metastable structures at the nanoscale. For instance, the confinement in porous matrices and the application of tensile stresses are strategies that we want to explore.
The expected outcomes of the Thesis are very relevant at fundamental level and may have a strong impact in a wide range of application fields from information technologies to pharmaceutical sciences. We offer a 1 year part-time contract to initiate the research project within the Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites Group (http://www.icmab.es/nn/) at Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (http://www.icmab.es). Meanwhile, we will apply for governmental funding to pursue a PhD.
To join us send a short motivation email including a CV and a scan of your official academic records to mgich@icmab.es and roig@icmab.es
Nanoparticles: interactions in 3D environments with cells
Anna Laromaine will give a seminar at the Vall d´Hebron Hospital entitled “Nanoparticles: interactions in 3D enviroments with cells”.
Date: 7th February of 2012 at 3.30 pm.
Wonderful songs by Lisa Levander
Wonderful songs of a former member of the group, Lisa Levander.
El CSIC logra efectos ópticos “extraordinarios” en ópalos magnéticos artificiales
Una investigación del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) ha diseñado materiales con propiedades ópticas no convencionales gracias al desarrollo de cristales artificiales a base de ópalos magnéticos autoensamblados. Dichas estructuras “aumentan extraordinariamente” la actividad magneto‐óptica para ciertas frecuencias de la luz. El cristal opalino consta de una estructura perfectamente ordenada de esferas huecas de óxido de aluminio (Al2O3) y diámetro aproximado de 300 nanómetros.
El estudio, dirigido por los investigadores del CSIC en el Instituto de Ciencias de Materiales de Bacerlona, Gervasi Herranz y Anna Roig, demuestra que al atravesar estas estructuras se induce en la luz una rotación muy intensa de su plano de polarización para longitudes de onda cercanas al parámetro de red de los ópalos. Este fenómeno podría ser de utilidad para una nueva generación de dispositivos en comunicaciones ópticas.
MORE INFO:
Magnetophotonic Response of Three-Dimensional Opals. José Manuel Caicedo†, Oana Pascu†, Martín López-García‡, Víctor Canalejas‡, Álvaro Blanco‡, Cefe López‡, Josep Fontcuberta†, Anna Roig†*, and Gervasi Herranz†*(† Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, E08193, Bellaterra, Spain,‡ Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM-CSIC), Calle Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 3, Madrid 28049, Spain).ACS Nano, 2011, 5 (4), pp 2957–2963.DOI: 10.1021/nn1035872
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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