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Monday, 28 January 2019

Vanguardia de la Ciencia award: Vote for nanoporous graphene!

La Vanguardia has selected the “nanoporous graphene” among the candidates to win its prestigious award Vanguardia de la Ciencia. The research describing the synthesis of a graphene membrane with pores whose size, shape and density can be tuned with atomic precision was published in Science by the ICN2 Group led by the ICREA Prof. Aitor Mugarza together with other ICN2 members, the CiQUS and the DIPC. The winner will be one of the 8 candidates that will be selected through popular vote.

Wednesday, 23 January 2019

Prof. Mónica Lira appointed Associate Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry C

The journal covers all aspects of materials for display technologies, optical materials, magnetics, electronics or information storage technology.

Tuesday, 22 January 2019

An image by Marcos Rosado wins the December Thermo Fisher Scientific image contest

The awarded SEM image shows a nanoplankton from the north Pacific Ocean. After being among the December 2018 winners the image enters the final yearly contest.

Tuesday, 22 January 2019

The ICN2 enters the “Nanolight Zone” in the new “Laura and Joan” storybook

The General Directorate for Research (Ministry of Business and Knowledge, Government of Catalonia) has launched a new “Laura and Joan” storybook to bring science closer to young students. The young protagonists of this series visit the ICN2 to learn about graphene, energy and technology transference.

Monday, 21 January 2019

Ultrathin Carbon Nanosheets with hierarchical porosity for a high-performing supercapacitor electrode

A work published in Advanced Materials describes a new carbon nanomaterial which provides a double profits strategy such as battery‐level energy and capacitor‐level power density. Among the authors are researchers from the ICN2 Novel Energy-Oriented Materials Group, led by Prof. Pedro Gomez-Romero.