Prof. Luisa de Cola visits us (19th Feb)

luisa da colaMartí Gich invited Prof. de Cola to visit the ICMAB and to give seminar. We were delighted to listen to her latest research. She also had the opportunity to talk with several other groups.

Luisa De Cola is full Professor at the Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (I.S.I.S.), Université de Strasbourg, chair of Supramolecular and (bio)Materials Chemistry. She is also part-time scientist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Nanotechnology.

Attendance to the International Magnifyco 2013 Workshop

MagnifycoLarge N&N Group attendance (Siming Yu, Muling Zeng, Nerea Murillo, Anna Laromaine and Anna Roig) at the Workshop organized in Barcelona (20-22 Feb) by the EC-NMP Project MAGNIFYCO.
Activities of our group were exposed as an invited lecture, an oral communication and a poster. We learnt a lot and set the grounds for new collaborations.

 

New publication!

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Hot from the press-
New publication entitled 2D Magnetic Frames Obtained by the Microwave-Assisted Chemistry Approach by Oana Pascu, Martí Gich, Gervasi Herranz, and Anna Roig in Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. DOI: 10.1002/ejic.201101244.

First 2013 publication by Nerea Murillo-Cremaes et al.

GA_Nerea_2013The research on drug impregnation of different carriers using supercritical fluids and its in vitro release conducted by Nerea Murillo-Cremaes et al. has been published online in the first 2013 number of The Journal of Supercriticla Fluids as: “Nanostructured silica-based drug delivery vehicles for hydrophobic and moisture sensitive drugs” (Nerea Murillo-Cremaes, Ana M. López-Periago, Javier Saurina, Anna RoigConcepción Domingo, The Journal of Supercritical Fluids, Volume 73, January 2013, Pages 34–42, doi:10.1016/j.supflu.2012.11.006).

Welcome to Si Ming Yu!

South_China_University_of_Technology_logoSi Ming has joined us for the next three years as a CSC fellow. He is a gradute in Food Engineering from the South China University of Technology in Guangzhou and will  prepare a Ph.D. on the Interactions in Three-dimensional environments of Nanoparticles and Cells under the supervision of Anna Laromaine. We wish him  a great success with his work and an enriching personal experience among us.

Welcome to Lijiao Hu!

Lijiao is a gradute from the Northwes A&F University in China and is currently a CSC fellow at the Nagoya University in Japan where he is preparing his PhD THesis doing research in Cooper Oxide nanoflowers. He is here in the framework of a Short Stay scheme financed by the japanese government. He will work under the supervision of Anna Roig in the synthesis of complex nanoparticles with microwaves.