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Large participation of the N&N Group at the 2nd Scientific Meeting of BNC-b Students (PhD Meeting)

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.

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Martí Gich and Qianzhe Zhang at the “iPolymorphs: Novel routes to inorganic polymorphs” conference in Donostia

Qianzhe Zhang presenting his posterFrom June 22th to 24th, Donostia (Basque Country) will be the capital of Inorganic Polymorphs due to the organization of the conference “iPolymorphs: Novel routes to inorganic polymorphs“.

Martí Gich and 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.  

Anna Laromaine gives a talk at the “Self-Assembly at ICMAB” conference on June 21st

spion-albuminJune 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. 

Anna Laromaine will give a talk (Tuesday, June 21st, 12.00) on “Albumin self-assembled on iron oxide nanoparticles’ surfaces”. 

For more information about other topics, speakers and organizers, visit the conference website: http://congresses.icmab.es/self2016/

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”)

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Laura Asturias at the 16th International Conference on Electroanalysis, in Bath

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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. 

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

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“.

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Martí Gich and Anna May at the NANOSELECT Annual Meeting 2016

nanoselect-logoThe 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. 

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

Poster Prize Anna May-MasnouPoster 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.

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

Event website: http://tinc.nu/web-swedish logo

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!

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

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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:

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

uimpAnna 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