Welcome to Qianzhe Zhang as new member of the NN group
Qianzhe has secured a CSC scholarship and he has started a PhD thesis in our group under de supervision of Martí Gich.
Farewell to Siming
Last picts of Siming at the office with Laura. Siming is going back to China tomorrow. We will miss you a lot!!! BEST wishes from the NN Group.
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
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.
TUESDAY 8th, PhD DEFENSE of Si-Ming Yu
Si-Ming Yu will defend her PhD thesis entitled:
Microwave synthesis of inorganic nanocrystals and their evaluation in biological environments
The thesis has been supervised by Dr. Anna Laromaine and Dr. Anna Roig
Martí Gich secures funding with an EXPLORA PROJECT 2015
Congratulations Martí!
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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
🗞️New article!
During the last week, @AmandaMuoz2 and @muguruza_r participated in outreach events in Barcelona. They brought science to bars 🍻
Check out more about these events 👇
📸 Images of @muguruza_r participating yesterday on the last day of the 2024 @pintofscienceES. 🍻🔬
With "David vs. Goliath: because size does matter", he spoke about the battle against superbacteria.
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