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Anna May Masnou is the new Communication & Outreach Officer at ICMAB

March 28, 2017
Anna May
Group activities, News

Anna May, postdoc in our group, is from now on the new Communication & Outreach Officer at ICMAB. Anna holds a PhD in Materials Science and Technology and is currently studying a postgraduate course in Science Communication.

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations. — Anne Roe (The Making of a Scientist (1953), 17)

We wish her all the luck in this new endeavour!

News at ICMAB webpage here.

Anna May in a course about Science and Media at the RTVE studios

Anna May has participated this week in the course “El científico ante los medios de comunicación“ organized by Fundación Dr. Antonio Esteve, Indagando TV, Instituto RTVE and CSIC, with 25 other scientists of different fields. The course took place at the RTVE (Radio y Televisión Española) studios, in Sant Cugat del Vallès.

Sunday 19th May 2013, EL PERIODICO, dark scenario for the Spanish R+D+i system

19th May Sunday issue of “EL PERIODICO”.

Michele Cantazaro described the difficult situation of the Spanish R&D system.

ICMAB researchers, Xavier Obradors, Mariano Campoy and Anna Roig answered to his questions.

Martí Gich has participated in a study published today in Science

In this study, authors demonstrate the formation of oriented piezoelectrically active α-quartz thin films directly on silicon. Films are prepared by dip-coating from alcohol/ water solutions of soluble silicic acid precursors plus surfactant or block copolymer structure-directing agents. Solvent evaporation drives the self-assembly of amorphous silica films composed of ordered arrays of pores. An appropriate thermal treatment results on epitaxial quartz films.

We congratulate the authors and specially our group member Martí Gich. You can read the full article

Soft-Chemistry–Based Routes to Epitaxial α-Quartz Thin Films with Tunable Textures
A. Carretero-Genevrier, M. Gich, L. Picas, J. Gazquez, G. L. Drisko, C. Boissiere, D. Grosso, J. Rodriguez-Carvajal, C. Sanchez
www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 340 17 MAY 2013, 827

You can also read a highlight written by Jeff Brinker in the same issue: Quartz on Silicon. The integration of quartz with silicon may provide a route to fabricate advanced piezoelectric devices. Jeffrey Brinker and Paul G. Clem.