Tag: collaboration

Hot from the press: Two more published papers!

We congratulate two N&N researchers for two new publicationsMarti Gich for his third publication within a very short period of time and Anna Roig who is a co-author of one of the two recent publications. Both studies have been done together with other ICMAB researchers and collaborators from other institutions. 
                                                                                          

Title: Carbon–Silica Composites to Produce Highly Robust Thin-Film Electrochemical Microdevices
Authors: Pengfei Niu, Laura Asturias-Arribas, Xavier Jordà, Alejandro R. Goñi, Anna Roig, Martí Gich, César Fernández-Sánchez
Citation: Niu, P. et al. Carbon-Silica Composites to Produce Highly Robust Thin-Film Electrochemical Microdevices. Adv. Mater. Technol. 1700163 (2017). 

Title: Piezo-generated charge mapping revealed through direct piezoelectric force microscopy
Authors: A. Gomez, M. Gich, A. Carretero-Genevrier, T. Puig and X. Obradors
Citation: Gomez, A., Gich, M., Carretero-Genevrier, A., Puig, T. & Obradors, X. Piezo-generated charge mapping revealed through direct piezoelectric force microscopy. Nat. Commun. 8, 1113 (2017).
We strongly recommend to read the Peer Review File of this paper published in Nature communications where the exchange of opinions between the authors and the referees is shown. 

Lab Cleaning day in the N&N Group!

Irene, Laura, Iván, Pol and Jordi organizing the chemicals and the disposable material.

Today, Wednesday 13th July, was the day for the lab cleaning! All the group participated in the lab cleaning, and everyone was willing to cooperate and help in the cleaning tasks. 

Who would miss the day we spend every three months organizing drawers of forgotten equipment, cleaning the hoods with different solvents trying to remove the stains, and updating long lists of reactives and lab material?! 

Thank you to everyone! And a big thank you to Pol Sallés, who has been lab manager for the last 3 months and has organized today’s lab cleaning!

Anna and Teresa cleaning the refrigerator, and Judit and Qianzhe updating the security cabinet chemicals list.
Deyaa, Adrià and Ander disposing the old waste and organizing the new waste containers and labels.
Mònica and Laura updating the solvent list and cleaning the fume hood.

Paper in collaboration with ICN2 in RSC Advances

Dual T1/T2 MRI contrast agent based on hybrid SPION@coordination polymer nanoparticles

The study GAby M. Borges, S. Yu, A. Laromaine, A. Roig, S. Súarez-García, J. Lorenzo,D. Ruiz-Molina and F. Novio* has just been published in RSC Advances 2015, 5, 86779–86783.

The paper reports a novel hybrid T1/T2 dual MRI contrast agent by the encapsulation of SPIONs (T2 contrast agent) into an iron-based coordination polymer with T1-weighted signal. This new hybrid material presents improved relaxometry and low cytotoxicity, which make it suitable for its use as contrast agent for MRI.

 

 

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

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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.
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COLLABORATION PROJECT WITH CNM-CSIC. FIRST PAPER ACCEPTED!

altFirst published results on the electrochemichal sensor for heavy metals project as a part of the PhD thesis of Pengfei that is co-supervised by Martí Gich of our group and Cesar Fernandez-Sanchez of the CNM-CSIC                                           

Facile Synthesis of Porous Bismuth-Carbon Nanocomposites for the Sensitive Detection of Heavy Metals
Marti Gich, Cesar Fernandez-Sanchez, Liviu Cosmin Cotet, Pengfei Niu and Anna Roig  

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2013, Accepted Manuscript DOI: 10.1039/C3TA12190A, Paper

 http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2013/TA/C3TA12190A 

Cooperation project with the Institut de Recerca de la Vall d’Hebron (VHIR): Innovation Prize Finalist!

innovative prize

MAGNET, the cooperation project with the Institut de Recerca de la Vall d’Hebron (VHIR) has been selected as one of the five finalists of the prestigious Innovation Prize. Dr. Anna Rosell, that leads this project at the Neurovacular Research Group, will defend it in Paris on the 12th of September. We wish her best luck!

If you want to read more: “El VHIR patenta una teràpia per potenciar la neuroreparació després de l’ictus”

Magnet – Vall d’Hebron Research Institute – Anna Rosell 
Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide and neurorepair strategies with advanced cell therapies may become a reality soon. However, this can only be accomplished by achieving the control over the delivery and engraftment of functional cells. The concept of the Magnet therapy is that by labelling endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) and nanocapsules containing EPCs-growth factors with biocompatible magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles, we will be able to guide their delivery to precise brain areas by externally applying a magnetic field force to enhance neurorepair and recovery.

The techonology is patented and we are currently in search of a company interested in lincense it. Publication of the firsts results can be found in the paper “In vitro angiogenic performance and in vivo brain targeting of magnetized endothelial progenitor cells for neurorepair therapies”

Figure: Image of an endothelial progenitor cell (EPC) taken with a Transmission Soft cryo-X-ray Microscopy from the ALBA Synchroton.

 

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