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.
Tuesday, 15 May 2018
An ICN2 paper reporting a novel concept in transistor technology published in Advanced Functional Materials features in this month's MRS Bulletin.
Friday, 11 May 2018
Last March the SOMMa alliance presented its position paper on the actions needed from government to safeguard the competitiveness of Spanish science. This month Spanish industry and the business sector have spoken out in support of the research sector for the first time.
Thursday, 12 April 2018
As part of a national research collaboration, Spanish researchers including the ICN2 have made uniformly nanoporous graphene a practicable reality. A major milestone in graphene research, this brings us one step closer to unlocking this wonder material’s full potential not only in electronics, but also in filtration and sensing applications. Presented this morning to journalists at a press conference at the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, the work is published in Science.
Wednesday, 11 April 2018
Last week the Universitat de Barcelona held its Careers Fair, an event designed to showcase job opportunities and career paths and attract students in the final stages of their university degrees. Representing the ICN2 were People Development Officer Julio Gómez and HR Generalist Ainhoa Ayastuy.
Monday, 26 March 2018
EMPENTA is the acceleration and support program for technology-based companies promoted by ACCIÓ (Catalan Government) and led by ESADE and ESADECREAPOLIS. In its seventh edition over 130 projects have been registered, doubling the numbers of the previous edition.
Thursday, 15 March 2018
The BNR radio station based in Amsterdam interviewed ICREA Prof. Jose A. Garrido to learn about the research on brain implants he leads at the ICN2 and in the context of European H2020 project BrainCom.
Thursday, 15 March 2018
The creation of the Severo Ochoa Centres and Maria de Maeztu Units Alliance (SOMMa) will allow research centres and units to increase their impact, foster their cooperation and work as a network, and enrich the R+D system as a whole. SOMMa has presented the document “SOMMa Position Paper: Actions required to safeguarding science competitiveness”, which aims at drawing the attention of politicians to tackle some of the current administrative issues urgently and in a long-lasting manner.
