Tuesday, 18 December 2018
The second such overview by Prof. Eden Morales-Narváez and ICREA Prof. Arben Merkoçi for Advanced Materials, this update presents the new challenges and opportunities facing researchers in this exciting field.
Friday, 14 December 2018
Readers of the journal of the American Chemical Society have voted this graphene membrane with pores controlled at the atomic scale as the best molecule of 2018. The material was presented in Science in a joint article by researchers from the ICN2, CiQUS and DIPC.
Thursday, 13 December 2018
Dr Zeila Zanolli of the ICN2 Theory and Simulation Group was elected member of the board (as treasurer) of the Young Academy of Europe at the 2018 Annual General Assembly, held this year in Barcelona on 28 and 29 November.
Friday, 30 November 2018
Watch the whole interview to learn more about the research lines led by the ICN2 Nanostructured Functional Materials Group and their impact in our lives.
Thursday, 29 November 2018
The thesis, defended by Dr Jackeline Narvaez Morales on February 29 2016, was entitled Flexoelectricity in Single Crystals. It was directed by ICREA Research Professor Gustau Catalán, head of the ICN2 Oxide Nanoelectronics Group, and Dr Neus Domingo, Senior Researcher from the same Group.
Wednesday, 28 November 2018
Graphene Flagship researchers including from the ICN2 have shown in a paper published in Science Advances how heterostructures built from graphene and topological insulators have strong, proximity induced spin-orbit coupling which can form the basis of novel information processing technologies.
Monday, 26 November 2018
Researchers from CSIC, ICN2 and CIBER-BBN have designed a biosensor device based on gold nanostructures that precisely detects the presence of anticoagulant drug from a small blood sample. Treatments with anticoagulants such as Sintrom® (acenocoumarol) face the difficulty of adjusting the drug doses. This device will allow patients to self-regulate the dose.
Monday, 19 November 2018
As we advanced last July, the ICN2 is among the five centres and seven units to be recognised in this round of Severo Ochoa and María de Maeztu awards, renewing our status as a national centre of excellence.
Friday, 02 November 2018
Work by the ICN2 Supramolecular NanoChemistry and Materials Group to widen the pores in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) has been featured in the American Chemical Society's Chemical & Engineering News magazine.
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Jordi Reverter speaks about success stories involving technologies developed at the ICN2 and encourages local companies to contact the ICN2 Business and Innovation team.
Wednesday, 24 October 2018
Disperse graphene in a suitable solvent and the resulting nanofluid will have much better thermal properties than the original liquid. Three ICN2 research groups collaborate to describe and explain this effect from the inside out. The results, published in the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Nanoscale, provide a comprehensive analysis that alternately rules out and lends support to different existing theories as to the mechanisms driving the enhanced thermal conductivity and heat exchange found in nanofluids, bringing considerable insight into the field of thermal transport in dynamic systems.
Monday, 01 October 2018
The European Researchers’ Night is a Europe-wide effort to boosts public awareness of the positive role of research in society. This year’s program included a series of events at CosmoCaixa, with a specific area devoted to nanoscience and nanotechnology. Many coordinated institutions, including the ICN2, made it possible.
Thursday, 09 August 2018
This researcher combines the study of fundamental physics with applied research, exploring ultrafast dynamics in nanoscale systems and their application in the fields of photodetection, quantum technologies and telecommunications. Building on close collaborations via inter-institutional projects within BIST, he will join the ICN2 in October as junior group leader, complete with his recently awarded ERC Starting Grant.
Friday, 13 July 2018
Big news! The Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities has published the provisional list of beneficiaries of this round of Severo Ochoa grants, and the ICN2 is among them.
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Graphene 2018 is being held in Dresden (Germany) from 26 to 29 June 2018. ICN2 is there once again with organisational, institutional and scientific efforts to share the latest advances in graphene research. Drop by the ICN2 booth to learn about brain implants to restore speech or nanoporous graphene, among other breakthroughs.
Monday, 25 June 2018
Two ICN2 Groups co-author a recent work published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Blanca Chocarro is the first author of a work presenting an optical CO2 sensor fabricated by integration of a self-assembled, transparent film of zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) nanoparticles onto bimodal optical waveguides.
Monday, 11 June 2018
Once again the Barcelona Science Fair brought together science lovers and scientists in a wonderful setting for family fun and discussion. The ICN2 joined the celebrations around the 100th anniversary of Richard Feynman’s birth, also presenting some of the highlights of its Severo Ochoa Programme.
Wednesday, 06 June 2018
Daniel Quesada-González and group leader ICREA Prof. Arben Merkoçi are the authors of this comprehensive and accessible review of nanomaterials for point-of-care diagnostics. Published in Chemical Society Reviews, it runs through the pros and cons of their application in different device types.
Friday, 01 June 2018
Last month ICN2 researchers and colleagues at CiQUS and DIPC presented a new holey graphene grown with identical pores in precise positions. Of major significance in graphene research, their paper "Bottom-up synthesis of multifunctional nanoporous graphene" (Science, 360) has received considerable international attention.
Monday, 28 May 2018
A recent work led by the ICN2 is featured in this prestigious magazine for its significance in the field of electronics. The groundbreaking production of an atomically precise nanoporous graphene complete with energy bandgap is the result of a collaboration between the ICN2, CiQUS and DIPC.
