-- Thursday, 04 September 2025
A review article by ICN2 researchers highlights recent advances in controlling quantum electronic properties of nanoporous graphene, an emerging material with great potential for future nanoelectronics and quantum devices.
-- Wednesday, 27 August 2025
A study co-led by the Oxide Nanophysics Group reveals that ice is a flexoelectric material, meaning it can produce electricity when unevenly deformed. Published in Nature Physics, this discovery could have major technological implications while also shedding light on natural phenomena such as lightning.
-- Tuesday, 12 August 2025
The 13th edition of the Advanced Study Course on Optical Sensors (ASCOS), held in León (Spain), brought together young researchers and experts from around the world to promote training, innovation, and scientific collaboration in this field. The ICN2 played a key scientific and organisational role through the NanoBiosensors and Bioanalytical Applications Group.
-- Friday, 08 August 2025
Dr Roshan Krishna Kumar participated in a study led by ICFO that overcame a long-standing barrier in photonics, developing an ultra-sensitive detector based on twisted 2D materials capable of detecting individual photons, even in the infrared spectrum.
-- Thursday, 31 July 2025
ICREA Prof. Aitor Mugarza, Dr Marc G. Cuxart and Dr Emigdio Chávez-Angel contributed to the recently published Roadmap for Photonics with 2D Materials with a Chapter on the role of tip-enhanced nanoscopies in the atomic-scale study of light-matter interactions in these nanomaterials.
