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Hot off the press: New paper in Chemical Engineering Journal!

The paper “Mitochondria-targeted magnetic gold nanoheterostructure for multi-modal imaging guided photothermal and photodynamic therapy of triple-negative breast cancer has been published in Chemical Engineering Journal. The paper is co-authored by Anna Roig and a former N&N Group member Siming Yu (now Guangdong Provincial Engineering and Technological Research Center for Drug Carrier Development, Guangzhou).

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Anna May will give a talk at the III Meeting of Young Researchers in Colloids and Interfaces in Madrid

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Anna May will give the talk “Au/TiO2 nanoparticles on bacterial cellulose membranes for water splitting in gas phase” in the III Meeting of Young Researchers in Colloids and Intrefaces (III Reunión de Jóvenes Investigadores en Coloides e Interfases), which is held in the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, during October 13-14, 2016. 

The work presented is in the framework of the Engineering Bacterial Cellulose Nanocomposites project from ICMAB, in collaboration with Jordi Llorca and Lluís Soler, from the Institut de Tècniques Energètiques (INTE) at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). 

The meeting is organized by the Grupo Especializado de Coloides e Interfases, the Real Sociedad Española de Física, and the Real Sociedad Española de Química.img_8085

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Miquel Torras is back with us to do his MSc Thesis in magnetic plasmonic nanotriangles

Miquel Torras in the labMiquel Torras, who was in the N&N Group during last semester to do his Degree’s Final Project, is back with us this year. He has started a MSc in Applied Materials Chemistry at Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and will do his MSc Thesis in the group, under the supervision of Anna Roig. He will be working on the synthesis and characterization of magnetic and plasmonic gold nanotriangles

Welcome back!

Martí Gich at the COMMON SENSE 36 Month meeting in Sardinia

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Martí Gich is at the COMMON SENSE 36 Month meeting, which will take place in Oristano, Sardinia, on September 29-30. The COMMON SENSE project aims at developing low cost sensors that will revolutionise current marine monitoring strategies.

Please enjoy this short video featuring field testing of COMMON SENSE sensors, which have been testes in various cruises throughout the past year: 
http://www.commonsenseproject.eu/2014-02-21-11-34-56/commonsensenews/1645-common-sense-featured-in-new-video

Website of the project: http://www.commonsenseproject.eu/