Monday, 08 February 2016
An international collaboration presents in Nano Letters a platform for realizing new device and physics experiments with a strong interplay between electronic and spin degrees of freedom. The ICREA research Prof Jordi Arbiol, ICN2 Group Leader, is among its corresponding authors.
Friday, 05 February 2016
The ICN2 NanoBioelectronics and Biosensors Group, led by the ICREA Research Prof Arben Merkoçi, presents a versatile, low-cost and customizable method for patterning graphene oxide onto a myriad of substrates. The patented technique, published in ACS Nano, requires neither a clean room nor organic solvents. It consists of three easy steps: printing, filtering and pressing.
Thursday, 21 January 2016
Dr. Maurizia Palummo offered, on January 21, an ICN2 seminar about Transition metal dichalcogenides. She presented recent results obtained by her team and elucidated the time scale and microscopic origin of light emission in these two-dimensional systems. The speaker was invited by the ICN2 Theory and Simulation Group, led by Dr. Pablo Ordejón.
Tuesday, 22 December 2015
Deregulated alternative splicing patterns could be considered as a hallmark of cancer. A recent paper in Biosensors and Bioelectronics reports a simple and robust technology using a Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) biosensor for label-free monitoring of alternative splicing events in real-time. The work was led by the ICN2 Nanobiosensors and Bioanalytical Applications Group in collaboration with the CRG.
Friday, 27 November 2015
Coordinated by Dr. Belén Ballesteros, Division leader of the Electron Microscopy Division, and the ICN2 HR & Education Department, the Program was launched on November 26 with a Seminar devoted to “Basic concepts on electron microscopy”.
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
In an article published in Small, researchers successfully applied a new qualitative and quantitative method for the detection of a DNA sequence characteristic of Leishmania infantum kinetoplast, a frequent parasite in veterinary that affects humans too. The work was led from the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) and the Spin Off company Vetgenomics.
Monday, 23 November 2015
“Moore’s law” approaches its limit. The idea of producing the world’s first integrated flexoelectric microelectromechanical system (MEMS) on silicon was published week in Nature Nanotechnology and gained a big attention. The international work was led by researchers from the ICN2 Oxide Nanoelectronics Group.
Monday, 23 November 2015
Dr. Sander J. Wezenberg, from the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen (The Netherlands), was invited by Dr. Jordi Fraxedas to offer an ICN2 Seminar entitled “Photochromic molecular switches and motors as tools for adaptive nanosystems”.
Thursday, 19 November 2015
“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
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, 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
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
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.
Thursday, 05 November 2015
The ICN2 seminar by Prof Nicholas D. Spencer, from the Department of Materials at the ETH Zürich (Switzerland), was introduced by Prof Daniel Ruiz, Group leader of the ICN2 Nanostructured Functional Materials Group.
Wednesday, 28 October 2015
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.
Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Two of the new Severo Ochoa Centers in the UAB Campus are part of CSIC: The Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB) and the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG). The news items list the rest of awarded centers related to CSIC, including ICN2.
Monday, 26 October 2015
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
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
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, 28 September 2015
“What can topological insulators do for spintronics?”. It is the appealing title of the talk offered today at ICN2 by Prof Branislav K. Nikoliã, and introduced by the ICN2 Group Leaders Prof Stephan Roche and Prof Sergio O. Valenzuela.
