WELCOME to Carla Fernandez!
Carla has just finished the second year of Nanocience’s and Nanotechnology at the UAB. This summer she has joined our group for a summer project on Janus nanoparticles under the supervision of Dra. Anna Roig.
Muling Zheng attended the 2013 Chunhui Science Conference
Muling attended the 2013 Chunhui Science Conference (26th June – 2nd July, Dalian, China) (www.chinaocs.com). The conference was organized by the Science and Technology Ministry and Education Ministry of China. Its purpose is to introduce a number of advanced technologies and projects overseas of high-level talents to return China. 1,270 overseas students were selected. Muling was the only representative from Spain. 28 provinces and municipalities have been enrolled in this conference. China is offering a very strong economical support for students abroad.
COOPERATION PROJECT with the INSTITUT DE RECERCA DE LA VALL D’HEBRON. FIRST PAPER ACCEPTED!!
First paper accepted
In vitro Angiogenic Performance and in vivo Brain Targeting of Magnetized Endothelial Progenitor Cells for Neurorepair Therapies
Elisa Carenza, Verónica Barceló, Anna Morancho, Lisa Levander, Cristina Boada, Anna Laromaine, Joan Gibert, Anna Roig*, Joan Montaner, Anna Rosell*
Scholarship granted to Laura González
Assistència Sanitària has granted a scholarship to Laura that covers 50 % of the tuition fee of the course on “Sistemes de qualitat en la indústria i la investigació farmacèutica” that she attended before joining us. The diplomas will be presented to the grantees next 18th June at the Hospital of Barcelona.
Sunday 19th May 2013, EL PERIODICO, dark scenario for the Spanish R+D+i system
19th May Sunday issue of “EL PERIODICO”.
Michele Cantazaro described the difficult situation of the Spanish R&D system.
ICMAB researchers, Xavier Obradors, Mariano Campoy and Anna Roig answered to his questions.
Martí Gich has participated in a study published today in Science
In this study, authors demonstrate the formation of oriented piezoelectrically active α-quartz thin films directly on silicon. Films are prepared by dip-coating from alcohol/ water solutions of soluble silicic acid precursors plus surfactant or block copolymer structure-directing agents. Solvent evaporation drives the self-assembly of amorphous silica films composed of ordered arrays of pores. An appropriate thermal treatment results on epitaxial quartz films.
We congratulate the authors and specially our group member Martí Gich. You can read the full article
Soft-Chemistry–Based Routes to Epitaxial α-Quartz Thin Films with Tunable Textures
A. Carretero-Genevrier, M. Gich, L. Picas, J. Gazquez, G. L. Drisko, C. Boissiere, D. Grosso, J. Rodriguez-Carvajal, C. Sanchez
www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 340 17 MAY 2013, 827
You can also read a highlight written by Jeff Brinker in the same issue: Quartz on Silicon. The integration of quartz with silicon may provide a route to fabricate advanced piezoelectric devices. Jeffrey Brinker and Paul G. Clem.
PENGFEI and MULING PRESENTED THEIR PhD PROJECTS
Pengfei and Muling participated as speakers in the 1st Scietific Meeting of ICMAB-ICN-CIN2 students. Pengefei with a presentation entitled Porous Carbon / Bismuth Nanoparticles Composites for Sensitive Heavy Metals Detection and Muling with one under the tiltle Preparation and Characterization of Bacterial Cellulose Films. They both did a great job.
The rest of the group also attended and were very active putting forward lots of questions to young speakers. If you want to know more