Nanomaterials for Advanced Memory and Computing

Group Leader: Jordi Sort Viñas

Jordi Sort Viñas

ICREA Research Professor and Senior Group Leader

jordi.sort@icn2.cat

Group Leader

Prof. Jordi Sort received his PhD in Materials Science from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2002 (Extraordinary Award), with a dissertation on magnetic exchange interactions in ferromagnetic–antiferromagnetic systems. He carried out postdoctoral research at the SPINTEC Laboratory (Grenoble) and Argonne National Laboratory (USA), and long secondments at the Grenoble High Magnetic Fields Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. He leads the Nanomaterials for Advanced Memory and Computing Group at ICN2, where novel nanoscale-material-based memory and computing concepts with enhanced write/read energy efficiency are developed, and the Smart Nanoengineered Materials, Nanomechanics and Nanomagnetism Group at UAB, focused on fundamental advances in the magnetic, magnetoelectric, and nanomechanical properties of materials that go beyond the state of the art.

Prof. Sort has supervised > 20 PhD theses and published around 400 articles, which have received over 14,200 citations (h > 60, Web of Science). His work appears in top-ranked journals such as Nature Communications, ACS Nano, Advanced Materials, Advanced Science, Materials Horizons, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, and Nanoscale. He holds 8 patents and has been invited or plenary speaker at more than 100 conferences.

Prof. Sort has received several prestigious awards, including the Jordi Porta i Jué Prize (2000), the Spanish Royal Physical Society Young Researcher Award (2003), the FEMS Prize in Materials Science & Technology (2015), and the Duran Farell Award for Technological Research (2020). He was awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant in 2014 for the project SPIN-PORICS, coordinated the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Networks SELECTA and BeMAGIC, and received an ERC Advanced Grant in 2022 for the project REMINDS, focused on the use of magnetoelectric materials for data security. Additionally, he has been PI of two ERC Proof of Concept grants and several other national and European research projects.

Publications

2026

  • Magneto-ionic control of magnetism through voltage-driven carbon transport

    Tan, Zhengwei; Ma, Zheng; Privitera-Uno, Simone; Liedke, Oskar Maciej; Hirschmann, Eric; Wagner, Andreas; Costa-Krämer, Jose Luis; Quintana, Alberto; Garcia-Tort, Aina; Herrero-Martín, Javier; Mei, Yongfeng; Chen, Xiangzhong; Tan, Huan; Fina, Ignasi; Sánchez, Florencio; Arredondo-López, Aitor; Ibrahim, Fatima; Chshiev, Mairbek; Longo, Emanuele; Rovirola, Marc; Macià, Ferran; Lopeandia, Aitor; Nogués, Josep; Pellicer, Eva; Sort, Jordi; Menéndez, Enric Nature Communications (2026, in press). IF: 15.7

  • Decoupling Magnetic and Electric Field Control in Magneto-Ionic Materials for Energy-Efficient Brain-Inspired Memory Devices

    Martínez Armesto, Luis; Ma, Zheng; Tan, Huan; Pellicer, Eva; Spasojevic, Irena; Sort, Jordi ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2026, in press). IF: 8.2

  • Proton-driven ferromagnetic switching of CoO in flexible magneto-ionic cells

    MEiler, Konrad; Tan, Huan; Arredondo-López, Aitor; Solsona, Pau; Pellicer, Eva; Sort, Jordi Journal of Materiomics (2026, in press). IF: 9.6

2025

  • Magneto-ionic vortices: voltage-reconfigurable swirling-spin analog-memory nanomagnets

    Spasojevic, Irena; Ma, Zheng; Barrera, Aleix; Celegato, Federica; Magni, Alessandro; Ruiz-Gómez, Sandra; Foerster, Michael; Palau, Anna; Tiberto, Paola; Buchanan, Kristen S.; Sort, Jordi Nature Communications 16: 1990. 2025. 10.1038/s41467-025-57321-8. IF: 15.7

  • Magneto-ionic engineering of antiferromagnetically RKKY-coupled multilayers

    Ma, Zheng; Arredondo-López, Alberto; Wrona, Jerzy; Herrero-Martín, Javier; Langer, Juergen; Berthold, Ocker; Pellicer, Eva; Menéndez, Enric; Sort, Jordi Advanced Materials 37 (19): 2415393. 2025. 10.1002/adma.202415393. IF: 26.8

  • Beyond storage: The expanding role of magnetism in intelligent computing

    Sort, Jordi APL Materials 13: 070401. 2025. 10.1063/5.0283713. IF: 4.5

  • Composition-Dependent Voltage-Driven OFF-ON Switching of Ferromagnetism in Co–Ni Oxide Microdisks

    Arredondo-López, Aitor; Eiler, Konrad; Quintana, Alberto; Rius, Gemma; Spasojevic, Irena; Salicio, Asier; Nicolenco, Aliona; Lekka, Maria; García-Lecina, Eva; Brunin, Guillaume; Waroquiers, David; Rigagnese, Gian Marco; Pellicer, Eva; Menéndez, Enric; Sort, Jordi ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 17 (6): 9500. 2025. 10.1021/acsami.4c15739. IF: 8.2

  • Energy-efficient memory materials

    Sort, Jordi; Everschor-Sitte, Karin; Ielmini, Daniele; Lira-Cantu, Monica APL Materials 13: 100401. 2025. 10.1063/5.0300514. IF: 4.5