Anna Roig gives the lecture “Fabricación e integración de nanomateriales en productos y dispositivos” today July 11th, at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, within the course “Nanotecnología: luces y sombras del control de la materia a escala atómica“ (Nanotechnology: lights and shadows of the control of matter at the atomic scale).
Pol Sallés received yesterday (July 4th) the award for the best Bachelor’s Final Project at the Welcome Ceremony of the Formula VIII conference, at Hotel Crowne Plaza, in Barcelona. Pol’s work was entitled “TiO2/Au nanoparticles on bacterial cellulose substrates for photocatalytic applications“, and was supervised by Anna Roig.
The prize, which consisted in 1000 € for the student and 500 € for the supervisor, to be spent in cultural activities/material, was delivered by Sergi Ruscalleda (CRODA), Miguel Burdeos (SPB) and Juan Lemmel (SEQC).
The Faraday Discussions Conference will take place in Glasgow, from July 4th-6th. The program of the event is found here. Speakers at the conference include:
Catherine J. Murphy, University of Illinois, United States
Younan Xia, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Eugenia Kumacheva, University of Toronto , Canada
Nicholas A. Kotov, University of Michigan, United States
Bernie Binks, University of Hull, United Kingdom
Steve Granick, IBS Center for Soft and Living Matter, South Korea
Jan Vermant, ETH Zurich, Czech Republic
Irene Yarovsky, RMIT University, Australia
Clement Sanchez, College de France, UPMC, CNRS, France
It is a great opportunity to discuss this work and other related topics with some of the top scientists on this field! We hope Anna brings back some new ideas to the N&N Group!
Laura González (ICMAB) has won the prize for the Best Oral Presentation at the 2nd Scientific Meeting of BNC-b Students (PhD meeting) for her talk “Evaluation of inorganic nanoparticles in the model organism C. elegans”.
The second prize for Oral Presentation has been for Daniel Grajales Garcia (ICN2) for his talk on “Bio-Hacking and Do-It-Yourself Biologist”. The two posters awards have been for Enelia Cristina (ICN2) (second prize) and Florind Merkoçi (ICN2) (first prize). The winners were determined through popular voting.
The aim of this conference is to give the opportunity to PhD, Master and Undergraduate students working in nanoscience at the UAB Campus to present their own scientific work in a 10-15 minutes presentation or in a poster (poster sessions). The meeting took place at the Facultat de Ciències i Biociències of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) on June 29th-30th.
The Poster Session of the 2nd Scientific Meeting of BNC-b Students (PhD Meeting) was a success. Here some members of the N&N group showing their posters at the Hall of the Facultat de Ciències i Biociències of the UAB: Iván, Adrià and Miquel, Irene, Deyaa and Qianzhe.
Iván Gómez: Adsorption of toxic metal ions onto magnetic graphene oxide
Adrià Gordillo and Miquel Torras: Magneto-plasmonic multimaterial nanoparticles
June 29th-30th are devoted to the “2nd Scientific Meeting of BNC-b Students”, which will take place at the Sala d’Actes of the Facultat de Ciències i Biociències (UAB). The meeting is aimed to present the work done by the PhD students of the Barcelona Nanotechnology Cluster – Bellaterra (ICMAB, ICN2, IMB-CNM, UAB, ALBA), promoting networking among all the students in an academic and scientific environment.
The N&N group will have a large participation in the event, both from PhD students and Master and Undergraduate students:
Laura González(PhD student) will give a talk on “Evaluation of Inorganic nanoparticles in the model organism C. elegans” (Session 2, June 29th, 12.15 h).
The following posters will be presented (Poster sessions: June 29th 10.45-12.00 h; June 30th 10.30-11.15 h):
Adsorption of toxic metal ions onto magnetic graphene oxide (Iván Gómez, Visiting PhD student)
Martí Gichand Qianzhe Zhang are attending the meeting: Martí will participate with a Keynote Lecture “Discovering new low-density polymorphs via negative pressure synthesis”, and Qianzhe with a Poster Presentation “Stabilization of expitaxial quartz on Si from amorphous silica films”.
For more information, please visit the conference website and the speakers program.
June 21st-22nd is Self-Assembly at ICMAB (SELF2016), the conference on self-assembly within the ICMAB. The topics covered include self-assembly of nanoparticles, nanostructures onto surfaces, and organic molecules, and theory and simulation of self-assembly, among others.
Figure: Snapshots from simulations of three different stages of protein adsorption. (a) Contact between BSA and the nanoparticle (t = 0.07 ns), (b) spreading of the BSA over the nanoparticle (t = 3 ns), and (c) relaxation of the adsorbed BSA protein (t = 9 ns). (From the recently published article: Siming Yu, et al.”Albumin-coated SPIONs: an experimental and theoretical evaluation of protein conformation, binding affinity and competition with serum proteins”, Nanoscale, 2016, Advance Article”)
Laura Asturias will give a talk at the 16th International Conference on Electroanalysis (ESEAC 2016), which will take place between 12th-16th June in Bath. 2016 represents the 30th Anniversary of the meeting, which brings together the most outstanding research in electroanalytical chemistry from across Europe and the world.
Laura will present “Carbon-gold nanoparticles thin-film electrode for the determination of mercury in sea water“, a project she has been working on within the Common Sense project at ICMAB.
For more information, please visit the conference website and the program.
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“.