NN Group offers three projects under the framework of Marie Sklodowska- Curie Individual Fellowships

Written by Anna Roig on June 15, 2015. Posted in Awards and scholarships, Group activities, News, Projects News.

Marie Sklodowska- Curie Individual Fellowship (Call MSCA IF 2015) is open offering multiple opportunities to experienced researchers to return and reintegrate in Europe.

There are 8 scientific areas established for MSCA. Our group offers 3 interdisciplinar projects under this framework (see attachments)

1.Field of PHYSICS, Optoelectronics in room-temperature multiferroic iron oxide.

2. Field of CHEMISTRY, Engineering novel magnetic nano-biomaterials to address tissue repair guided by angiogenesis.

3.Field of LIFE SCIENCE, Assessing nanoparticles in 3D biological environments, from cell culture to C. elegans.

If you are interested, please contact us and we will assist you.

IMPORTANT, DEADLINE IS 10 SEPTEMBER 2015!!

300315_CSIC_ICMAB_Roig_CHE

300315_ICMAB_CSIC-MGich_PHY

270315_ICMAB_CSIC_Laromaine_LIF

Paper accepted in Chem. Eng. J.

Written by Anna Roig on June 13, 2015. Posted in New publications, News.

We want to congratulate to Laura and Siming for the acceptance of the paper “Scale-up synthesis of iron oxide nanoparticles by microwave-assisted thermal decomposition” in Chemical Engineering Journal by Laura González-Moragas, SiMing Yu (equal contributors), Nerea Murillo, Anna Laromaine, Anna Roig.

Success in the HINT -BCN Workshop

Written by Anna Roig on June 10, 2015. Posted in Conferences, Group activities, News.

Dr. Fernando Novio (ICN2) and Dr. Anna Laromaine (ICMAB) organized last 8-9th of June the HINT-BCN Workshop with success. Invited speakers and poster contributions were of great quality! From here, we would like to thank the group members for their help during the workshop!

N&N Group and Grup de Transductors Químics (CNM) Collaboration: new paper on heavy metals detection

Written by JAGS on March 19, 2015. Posted in New publications, News.

Electroanalytical Assessment of Heavy Metals in Waters with Bismuth Nanoparticle-Porous Carbon Paste Electrodes

The final version of the paper in Electrochimica Acta is on-line . It will be published in the journal in May. You can download it from the link. http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1QjGc_JcNCuYR The journal provides free access to the article for almost two months and the article can also be shared during this time.

Highlights

•A bismuth carbon nanocomposite material prepared by a one-pot sol-gel process.
•Application to the fabrication of a sensor for heavy metal detection in waters.
•Cd, Pb and Ni were measured at concentration levels below the MAC-EQS set by the EU.
•Thorough assessment of the sensor performance in water samples of different origin.

Anna Laromaine, Scientist of the Month in AMIT website

Written by JAGS on March 14, 2015. Posted in Awards and scholarships, News.

AMIT is the Asociación de Mújeres Investigadoras y Tecnólogas. Every month AMIT is highlighting the profile of a female resercher.

This month you can read about Anna Laromaine career http://www.amit-es.org/index.php?id=94

Well done Anna!

Large Participation of the N&N group members at the Fourth International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials

Written by JAGS on March 7, 2015. Posted in Conferences, Group activities, News.

Fourth International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials (Hybrid Materials 2015) in Sitges (near Barcelona), Spain | 9 – 13 March 2015

To know more about the group activities:

Tuesday 10 Symposium B1, 15:50‐16:10 [OB1.05.06] Versatility of supercritica fluids as reaction media for hybrid SPIONs‐silica‐polymer biomaterials, N. Murillo‐Cremaes, J. Saurina, P. Subra‐Paternault, C. Domingo* (presenter) , A. Roig
Tuesday 10 Symposium B1, 16:10‐16:30 [OB1.05.07] Bacterial cellulose films: Origami and scaffolds, M. Zeng, A. Roig, A. Laromaine* (presenter)
Wenesday 11 Symposium A 12:20‐12:40 [OA.07.04] Encapsulation of a growth factor in magnetic polymeric nanocapsules, E. Carenza, O. Jordan, P. Martínez‐San Segundo, R. Jirik4, Z. Starcuk jr., G. Borchard, A. Rosell, A. Roig* (presenter)
Wenesday 11 Symposium C 13:00‐13:20 [OC.07.06] Thin epitaxial quartz films with tunable textures on silicon, A. Carretero‐Genevrier, M. Gich* (presenter), L. Picas, J. Gazquez, G.L. Drisko, C. Boissiere, D. Grosso, J. Rodriguez‐Carvajal, C. Sanchez
Thursday 12 Symposium A 10:00‐10:20 [OA.08.03] C. elegans: a model to evaluate nanoparticles?, L. Gonzalez‐Moragas* (presenter), E. Carenza, S. Yu, A. Roig, A. Laromaine
A poster presented by M. Gich on Bismuth Carbon nanocomposites for heavy metal sensor detection

Laura González in the 5th Spanish Worm Meeting – Salamanca

Written by JAGS on March 6, 2015. Posted in Conferences, News.

This week, Laura gave an oral presentation at the 5th Spanish Worm Meeting – Salamanca. She presented the results of iron oxide nanoparticle assesment using C. elegans as an in vivo model.

ACCEPTED REVIEW! C. elegans as a tool for in vivo nanoparticle assessment

Written by JAGS on February 16, 2015. Posted in General News.

C. elegans as a tool for in vivo nanoparticle assessment

Laura Gonzalez-Moragas, Anna Roig, Anna Laromaine*

Advances in Colloid and Interface Science,

Available online 14 February 2015,doi:10.1016/j.cis.2015.02.001

Abstract, Characterization of the in vivo behavior of nanomaterials aims to optimize their design, to determine their biological effects, and to validate their application. The characteristics of the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) advocate this 1 mm long nematode as an ideal living system for the primary screening of engineered nanoparticles in a standard synthetic laboratory. This review describes some practicalities and advantages of working with C. elegans that will be of interest for chemists and materials scientists who would like to enter the “worm” community, anticipates some drawbacks, and offers relevant examples of nanoparticle assessment by using C. elegans.