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Poster Prize for Anna May at the “Functional hybrid materials” workshop and training school in Stockholm

Written by Anna May on May 28, 2016. Posted in Awards and scholarships, Conferences, News.

Poster Prize for Anna May at the workshop and training school “Functional hybrid materials: Structure elucidation from molecular to macro level”, within the “Trends in Inorganic Chemistry (TINC)” series.

Anna presented the poster “Photocatalytic hybrid nanocomposites of bacterial cellulose and Au/TiO₂ nanoparticles for hydrogen production”, a work in collaboration with the Institut de Tècniques Energètiques (INTE-UPC), and within the National Project Engineering Bacterial Cellulose (E-BCN).

This event, held in Stockholm University (May 25th-27th), was organized by the Division of Inorganic Chemistry of the Swedish Chemical Society, within the EU COST action MP1202 “Rational design of hybrid organic-inorganic interfaces: the next step towards advanced functional materials”. The Poster Prize was sponsored by the International Sol-Gel Society.

Jana Segmehl, from ETH Zurich, and who did an Internship in our group at ICMAB, also attended the workshop and presented the poster “Functional hybrid materials based on hierarchical structured cellulose scaffolds”, in which Anna Laromaine and Anna Roig are co-authors.

The program and speakers are available on the event website. A flyer of the event is found here.

Event website: http://tinc.nu/

Update 07/06/2016: The news appears on the International Sol-Gel Society webpage!

Update 06/10/2016: Picture of the participants in the HINT COST ACTION webpage!

Anna Roig invited to the Nano2016 conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Written by Anna May on May 9, 2016. Posted in Conferences, News.

Anna Roig is in Buenos Aires this week, to attend the Nano 2016 conference. The topic of the conference is “Surfaces and Nanostructured Materials”.

Anna will give a plenary lecture on Friday, May 13th (9:00 – 10:00 am), entitled “Bio-identity of protein-coated spions evaluated in cells and in vivo by the C. elegans model”.

Before the conference, there is a school for graduate students and young researchers, in which she will give a lecture on “Introduction to medical imaging techniques and their relationship with nanotechnology”. This will be on Monday, May 9th (9:00 – 11:30 am).

Apart from the conference, Anna will take the opportunity to give three seminars in three different centers:

Instituto de Química y Fisicoquímica Biológicas, IQUIFIB-CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
Instituto de Física La Plata – Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)
CIOp – Centro de Investigaciones Ópticas– CONICET, La Plata

Iván Gómez will attend the GRAPHENE 2016 conference in Genova on April 19-22

Written by albert on April 15, 2016. Posted in Conferences, News.

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Jana Segmehl was at the Bio-inspired Materials 2016 conference

Written by Anna May on February 26, 2016. Posted in Conferences, News.

Jana Segmehl gave a Short Poster Lecture at the Bio-inspired Materials 2016 conference, in Potsdam (Germany). Her poster was entitled “Wood derived hierarchical cellulose scaffolds for multifunctional materials” (J. Segmehl (Sp), A. Krasnobaev, T. Keplinger, I. Burgert, ETH, Zürich (Switzerland)). The work presented is part of her Ph.D. thesis, which she is doing at ETH Zurich.

You can download the scientific program of the conference following this link.

The N&N Group was at Mater Brunch: Fotocataliti-qué?

Written by Anna May on February 12, 2016. Posted in Conferences, Group activities, News.

This last Thursday, Anna May, in representation of the N&N Group, went to “Mater Brunch: Fotocataliti-qué?“, a meeting about photocatalysis that took place at Materfad, the Materials Center in Barcelona. The topic of the session was the new materials based on photocatalysis that are being developed to improve the quality of life and of the urban environment.
Materfad organized a meeting between professionals, which counted with the experience of Breinco, Active Walls, FYM-Italcementi Group and the Iberian Association of Photocatalysis (AIF).
The program consisted of four presentations and a networking session accompanied by a buffet:
14:00: “Introducing the AIF (Iberian Association of Photocatalysis)” by David Almazán (Iberian Association of Photocatalysis).
14:15 h: “Photocatalysis inside buildings” by Jesús Serra (Active Walls).
14:30: “Key issues on cement-based photocatalytic products” by Rafael Jurado (FYM-Italcementi Group).
14:45 h: “Technology AirClean®: flooring and facades that reduce air pollution” by Gemma Pages (Breinco).
Although the meeting was basically dedicated to materials for construction (either indoors or outdoors), it is always good to know the priorities, state of the market and companies interested in photocatalysis, since our group is also working in this field.
Some interesting facts that were mentioned were the high degree of contamination in big cities, such as Barcelona; the consequences of this high pollution in people’s health (high mortality), although people are not aware of it, or the fact that Barcelona does not comply with the existing NOx limits.
Another think to take into account is that the air of our houses or workplaces (indoors), where we spend more than 95 % of our time, is also polluted, although we do not notice it.
The speakers mentioned that there are not conclusive results about the diminishment of the pollution when using these photocatalytic materials: experiments outdoors show results from 15 to 40 % of reduction of NOx, whereas experiments indoors show results up to 90 % reduction.

Anna Roig will present at NanoBio&Med2015

Written by Anna Roig on November 13, 2015. Posted in Conferences, News.

NanoBio&Med 2015 to be held in Barcelona 18-20 Nov is going to present the most recent international developments in the field of Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine and will provide a platform for multidisciplinary communication, new cooperations and projects to participants from both science and industry. Emerging and future trends of the converging fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology and medicine will be discussed among industry, academia, governmental and non-governmental institutions.

Anna will talk on the bio-identity of albumin-iron oxide nanoparticles on the 19th Nov at 16:20 h.

More information at the event webpage: http://www.nanobiomedconf.com/

Pavel Levkin, ICMAB SEMINAR SERIES: 5th OCTOBER at 12:00 h, Conference room

Written by Anna Roig on September 29, 2015. Posted in Conferences.

Biofunctional polymer surfaces: from superhydrophobicity to high-throughput cell screening

Pavel Levkin Talk

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!

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.