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Anna Laromaine in the Advances in Functional Materials Conference in South Korea

Written by Anna May on August 4, 2016. Posted in Conferences, News.

Anna Laromaine will give the talk “Multi structures using bacterial cellulose films” (Muling Zeng, Anna May-Masnou, Anna Roig, Anna Laromaine) in the Advances in Funcional Materials (AFM) Conference in Jeju, South Korea.

The talk will be on Tuesday, August 9th, at 4.05 pm, within the Symposium 1: Advances in Multifunctional Composite Materials, at the International Convention Center (ICC) in Jeju (South Korea). Anna will also be Chair of a previous session of the same Symposium.

Good luck!

For further information, visit the conference website: http://afm2016.functionalmaterials.org/
Or the conference program: http://afm2016.functionalmaterials.org/wp-content/uploads/AFM16-Conference-Plan.pdf
And the book of abstracts: http://afm2016.functionalmaterials.org/wp-content/uploads/Abstract-Book-2016.pdf

Anna Roig gives a nano-lecture at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo in Santander

Written by Anna May on July 11, 2016. Posted in Conferences, News.

Anna Roig gives the lecture “Fabricación e integración de nanomateriales en productos y dispositivos” today July 11th, at the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, within the course “Nanotecnología: luces y sombras del control de la materia a escala atómica“ (Nanotechnology: lights and shadows of the control of matter at the atomic scale).

Pol Sallés received the award for the best Bachelor’s Final Project at the Formula VIII conference

Written by Anna May on July 5, 2016. Posted in Awards and scholarships, Conferences, News.

Pol Sallés received yesterday (July 4^th) the award for the best Bachelor’s Final Project at the Welcome Ceremony of the Formula VIII conference, at Hotel Crowne Plaza, in Barcelona. Pol’s work was entitled “TiO₂/Au nanoparticles on bacterial cellulose substrates for photocatalytic applications“, and was supervised by Anna Roig. Xavier Domingo Prizes

The prize, which consisted in 1000 € for the student and 500 € for the supervisor, to be spent in cultural activities/material, was delivered by Sergi Ruscalleda (CRODA), Miguel Burdeos (SPB) and Juan Lemmel (SEQC).

Welcome Ceremony of the Formula VIII

This award is in the framework of the 4^th Prizes Xavier Domingo, organized by the Spanish Committee of Detergent, Surfactants and Related Products (CED, Comité Español de la Detergencia, Tensioactivos y Afines), the Universitat de Barcelona, CRODA and SPB. A part from the award to Bacherlor students, there is also awards for Secondary Students who have done works related with colloids and surfactants.

Anna Roig at the Faraday Discussions Conference in Glasgow

Written by Anna May on July 4, 2016. Posted in Conferences, News.

Anna Roig will present the work “Gold nanotriangles decorated with superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles: a compositional and microstructural study” (Jordan A. Hachtel, Siming Yu, Andrew R. Lupini, Sokrates T. Pantelides, Marti Gich, Anna Laromaine and Anna Roig) at the Faraday Discussions Conference: Nanoparticles with Morphological and Functional Anisotropy.

The Faraday Discussions Conference will take place in Glasgow, from July 4th-6th. The program of the event is found here. Speakers at the conference include:

Catherine J. Murphy, University of Illinois, United States
Younan Xia, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Eugenia Kumacheva, University of Toronto , Canada
Nicholas A. Kotov, University of Michigan, United States
Bernie Binks, University of Hull, United Kingdom
Steve Granick, IBS Center for Soft and Living Matter, South Korea
Jan Vermant, ETH Zurich, Czech Republic
Irene Yarovsky, RMIT University, Australia
Clement Sanchez, College de France, UPMC, CNRS, France

It is a great opportunity to discuss this work and other related topics with some of the top scientists on this field! We hope Anna brings back some new ideas to the N&N Group!

Best Oral Presentation for Laura González at the 2nd Scientific Meeting of BNC-b Students

Written by Anna May on June 30, 2016. Posted in Awards and scholarships, Conferences, News.

Laura González (ICMAB) has won the prize for the Best Oral Presentation at the 2nd Scientific Meeting of BNC-b Students (PhD meeting) for her talk “Evaluation of inorganic nanoparticles in the model organism C. elegans”.

The second prize for Oral Presentation has been for Daniel Grajales Garcia (ICN2) for his talk on “Bio-Hacking and Do-It-Yourself Biologist”. The two posters awards have been for Enelia Cristina (ICN2) (second prize) and Florind Merkoçi (ICN2) (first prize). The winners were determined through popular voting.

The aim of this conference is to give the opportunity to PhD, Master and Undergraduate students working in nanoscience at the UAB Campus to present their own scientific work in a 10-15 minutes presentation or in a poster (poster sessions). The meeting took place at the Facultat de Ciències i Biociències of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) on June 29th-30th.

Congratulations Laura!

Large participation of the N&N Group at the 2nd Scientific Meeting of BNC-b Students (PhD Meeting)

Written by Anna May on June 28, 2016. Posted in Conferences, Group activities, News, Science outreach.

June 29^th-30^th are devoted to the “2nd Scientific Meeting of BNC-b Students”, which will take place at the Sala d’Actes of the Facultat de Ciències i Biociències (UAB). The meeting is aimed to present the work done by the PhD students of the Barcelona Nanotechnology Cluster – Bellaterra (ICMAB, ICN2, IMB-CNM, UAB, ALBA), promoting networking among all the students in an academic and scientific environment.

The N&N group will have a large participation in the event, both from PhD students and Master and Undergraduate students:

Laura González (PhD student) will give a talk on “Evaluation of Inorganic nanoparticles in the model organism C. elegans” (Session 2, June 29^th, 12.15 h).
The following posters will be presented (Poster sessions: June 29^th10.45-12.00 h; June 30^th 10.30-11.15 h):
- Adsorption of toxic metal ions onto magnetic graphene oxide (Iván Gómez, Visiting PhD student)
- Encapsulating endothelial progenitor cell’s secretome for vascular remodeling therapies (Irene Anton, Master student)
- Magneto-plasmonic multimaterial nanoparticles (Miquel Torras and Adrià Gordillo, Undergraduate students)
- Production of bacterial nano-cellulose as a terrific natural polymer (Deyaa Youssef, Visiting PhD student)
- Stabilization of epitaxial quartz on Si from amorphous silica films (Qianzhe Zhang, PhD student)

The program of the event can be downloaded here.

For further information, please visit: http://congresses.icmab.es/jphd2016/

Martí Gich and Qianzhe Zhang at the “iPolymorphs: Novel routes to inorganic polymorphs” conference in Donostia

Written by Anna May on June 23, 2016. Posted in Conferences, News.

From June 22th to 24th, Donostia (Basque Country) will be the capital of Inorganic Polymorphs due to the organization of the conference “iPolymorphs: Novel routes to inorganic polymorphs“.

Martí Gich and Qianzhe Zhang are attending the meeting: Martí will participate with a Keynote Lecture “Discovering new low-density polymorphs via negative pressure synthesis”, and Qianzhe with a Poster Presentation “Stabilization of expitaxial quartz on Si from amorphous silica films”.

For more information, please visit the conference website and the speakers program.

Anna Laromaine gives a talk at the “Self-Assembly at ICMAB” conference on June 21st

Written by Anna May on June 20, 2016. Posted in Conferences, News.

June 21st-22nd is Self-Assembly at ICMAB (SELF2016), the conference on self-assembly within the ICMAB. The topics covered include self-assembly of nanoparticles, nanostructures onto surfaces, and organic molecules, and theory and simulation of self-assembly, among others.

Anna Laromaine will give a talk (Tuesday, June 21st, 12.00) on “Albumin self-assembled on iron oxide nanoparticles’ surfaces”.

For more information about other topics, speakers and organizers, visit the conference website: http://congresses.icmab.es/self2016/

Figure: Snapshots from simulations of three different stages of protein adsorption. (a) Contact between BSA and the nanoparticle (t = 0.07 ns), (b) spreading of the BSA over the nanoparticle (t = 3 ns), and (c) relaxation of the adsorbed BSA protein (t = 9 ns). (From the recently published article: Siming Yu, et al.”Albumin-coated SPIONs: an experimental and theoretical evaluation of protein conformation, binding affinity and competition with serum proteins”, Nanoscale, 2016, Advance Article”)

First slide of the talk

Laura Asturias at the 16th International Conference on Electroanalysis, in Bath

Written by Anna May on June 14, 2016. Posted in Conferences, News.

Laura Asturias will give a talk at the 16^th International Conference on Electroanalysis (ESEAC 2016), which will take place between 12^th-16^th June in Bath. 2016 represents the 30^th Anniversary of the meeting, which brings together the most outstanding research in electroanalytical chemistry from across Europe and the world.

Laura will present “Carbon-gold nanoparticles thin-film electrode for the determination of mercury in sea water“, a project she has been working on within the Common Sense project at ICMAB.

For more information, please visit the conference website and the program.

Martí and Anna with their contributions at the NANOSELECT Annual Meeting 2016

Written by Anna May on June 10, 2016. Posted in Conferences, News.

The NANOSELECT Annual Meeting in Sant Feliu de Guíxols has ended.The meeting has been full of talks about different topics, such as functional oxides, ferromagnetic materials, superconductors (YBCO and others), semiconductors for water splitting, Nanocosmos, alternatives of Li-ion batteries, and many other interesting topics. The meeting was held in Eden Roc, a nice hotel in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, between 8th and 19th June.

Here you can find the contributions of the N&N Group, Martí Gich giving the talk “Ferroelectric domains and polarization switching ine-Fe₂O₃“, and the poster “Magnetic properties above room temperature in magnetoelectric e-Fe₂O₃“, and Anna May with the poster ““Photocatalytic hybrid nanocomposites of bacterial cellulose and Au/TiO₂ nanoparticles for hydrogen production“.