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Thursday, 19 November 2015

Flexoelectricity is more than Moore

“Moore’s law”, according to which chip performance would double approximately every two years, approaches its limit: soon it would be impossible to produce smaller transistors. A new quest, nick-named “more than Moore”, aims to add new functionalities within each chip by integrating smart materials on top of their silicon base. Researchers from the ICN2 Oxide Nanoelectronics Group led an international collaboration which has produced the world’s first integrated flexoelectric microelectromechanical system (MEMS) on silicon. Their results have been published this week in Nature Nanotechnology.

Monday, 16 November 2015

Reviews of Modern Physics highlights recent research on Spin Hall effects

ICREA Prof Sergio O. Valenzuela, Group Leader at ICN2, is among the 5 authors of a review article highlighted on the cover of the journal Reviews of Modern Physics. The article offers a pedagogical overview of the Spin Hall effect, both from a theoretical and from an experimental perspective.

Friday, 13 November 2015

Prof. Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski offers an ICN2 Seminar about recent progress in microscopy of nanomaterials

Prof. Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski, Research Director of the Institute for Microstructure (Germany), presented a selection of recent results obtained in both high-resolution and Lorentz modes and offered a personal perspective on directions for the future development of transmission electron microscopy. ICREA Prof Jordi Arbiol, Group leader of the ICN2 Advanced Electron Nanoscopy Group, presented this influential speaker.

Friday, 13 November 2015

Prof. Albert Fert visits ICN2 to discuss about Spin-orbitronics

The Nobel Prize awardee and member of the ICN2 Scientific Advisory Board offered on November 11, 2015, a Manuel Cardona Lecture entitled “Spin-orbitronics, a new direction for spintronics”. Afterwards he participated in a tour through the ICN2 involving different Groups and a lively discussion during a friendly lunch.

Tuesday, 10 November 2015

A pregnancy test-like method allows the quick and cheap quantification of Parathyroid Hormone-like Hormone

Parathyroid Hormone-like Hormone is a relevant protein in the biology and treatment of several malignancies. A work in Nanomedicine, headed by Nanobioelectronics & Biosensors Group led by Prof. Arben Merkoci from the Institut Catala de Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia (ICN2) and by Dr. Carmen de Torres Gomez-Pallete group from the Fundació and Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, describes for the first time the application of lateral-flow immunoassays for the detection of this protein taking advantage of paper based nanobiosensors properties.

Wednesday, 28 October 2015

Three new centers of the UAB Campus awarded as Severo Ochoa Centers of Excellence

The Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB), the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) and the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) joined ICN2 and the Institute for High Energy Physics (IFAE) in the prestigious list of Severo Ochoa Centers placed at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) Campus.

Monday, 26 October 2015

Prof José Ramón Galan-Mascaros offers a Seminar about spin crossover

During his presentation, Prof. José Ramón Galan-Mascaros explored the state of the art in the field, as exemplified by the versatility observed in the family of triazole-based spin crossover compounds. The speaker was introduced by CSIC Research Prof Daniel Ruiz, Group Leader at ICN2.

Wednesday, 07 October 2015

The Severo Ochoa centers discuss dissemination at 100XCIENCIA

During the first day of the forum plenty of panel discussions, outreach seminars and talks by first level representatives of the different centers took place. CSIC Prof. Pedro Gómez-Romero, Group Leader at ICN2 and science disseminator, underlined that for an effective dissemination of science it is important that we all enjoy during the process.

Wednesday, 07 October 2015

How does the Titanium Oxide promote water oxidation in Hematite-based photoanodes?

Obtaining Hydrogen through water splitting may have broad energetic implications. Researchers from the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC), with ICREA Prof Jordi Arbiol’s Group at ICN2, recently published in Energy & Environmental Science a systematic mechanistic study of the origin of the Titanium-induced enhanced photoactivity in Hematite-based photoanodes.

Monday, 07 September 2015

Prof. Alexei Gruverman offers an ICN2 Seminar

The talk held on September 4th, 2015, was entitled “Electromechanical Behavior and Electronic Properties of Complex Oxide Heterostructures and Hybrid 2D Ferroelectric Devices”. Prof. Alexei Gruverman, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has played a key role in the field of ferroelectric and multiferroic oxides. Dr. Neus Domingo introduced the Seminar.

Friday, 28 August 2015

100xCiencia: Top scientists meet top journalists to discuss about “Communicating Frontier Science”

The 100xCiencia encounter will summit in La Palma (October 7-8) outstanding journalists and scientists. The event will explain the science carried out by the main centres of R&D in Spain, those accredited with the Severo Ochoa Excellence award, and will establish a debate with communicators and journalists about how to communicate and to popularize their scientific activity.

Thursday, 27 August 2015

High Temperature Magnetic Stabilization of Cobalt Nanoparticles

A work published in Physical Review Letters, with ICREA Prof Josep Nogués, Group Leader at ICN2, as its last author, explains how an Antiferromagnetic Proximity Effect makes the Magnetic Stabilization possible above 400 K (126.85 degrees Celsius). This achievement might have crucial implications for ultrahigh density recording among other applications.

Friday, 24 July 2015

ICN2 in the Media: the research about nanopaper has been widely covered by the press

The recent article about using nanopaper as an optical sensor platform published in ACS Nano has attracted the attention of the press. Some of the most relevant newspapers and radio stations of the country have covered, or will do, the research led by ICREA Prof Arben Merkoci where the potential and the outstanding properties of nanocellulose for sensing applications are highlighted.

Thursday, 23 July 2015

Nanopaper as an optical sensing platform

An international team led by the ICREA Prof Arben Merkoci has just developed new sensing platforms based on bacterial cellulose nanopaper. These novel platforms are simple, low cost and easy to produce and present outstanding properties that make them ideal for optical (bio)sensing applications. The results have been reported in ACS Nano.