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Hello everyone! My name is Carlos Zarco and I'm from Barcelona. I am a last-year student of Phisics and Chemistry at UAB and I am performing my degree's final project at ICMAB with Ignasi Fina.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-020-0765-x

Utilizing quantum effects in complex oxides, such as magnetism, multiferroicity and superconductivity, requires atomic-level control of the material’s structure and composition. In contrast, the continuous conductivity changes that enable artificial oxide-based synapses and multiconfigurational devices are driven by redox reactions and domain reconfigurations, which entail long-range ionic migration and changes in stoichiometry or structure.

The second edition of The Annual Congress of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (II CANN-2020) hosted by the Catalan Society of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (SCN2) will focus on the recent developments on Nanobiomedicine in the region of Catalonia. This year, due to the current situation, it will be held online on 19 November 2020. 

Research on room temperature superconducting materials has been one of the biggest challenges of condensed matter physics in the last century. Let's see how we started and where are we now, after the recent results obtained by researchers at the University at Rochester and published in Nature. 

The proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Nitrides (ISNT2019), which took place in Barcelona between 9 and 13 June 2019, are now published in the Journal of the European Ceramic Society (Elsevier). The invited editors of this special edition are ICMAB Researcher, Amparo Fuertes, and Ralf Riedel, from the Technische Universität Darmstadt, co-Chairs of the symposium. 

To celebrate the Open Access Week 2020, we invite you to attend the following Online Seminar: 

Open Access: novedades en el CSIC

by Alejandro Santos, Manuel Cardona Library, ICMAB-CSIC

Tuesday, 27 October 2020 @ 12 pm
Online Seminar. Register here to attend the seminar via Zoom. 

Irene Anton-Sales, Soledad Roig-Sanchez, María Jesús Sánchez-Guisado, María Jesús Sánchez-Guisado, Anna Laromaine*, and Anna Roig*. ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. 2020, 6, 9, 4893–4902. Publication Date:August 11, 2020. 

Thursday, 22 October 2020, at 7 pm, there will be a public session for the admission of the elected academic Dr. Enric Canadell Casanova, ICMAB researcher, who will read his welcoming report entitled: "Solid conductors of low dimensionality", and will be answered on behalf of the corporation by the academic Excm. Mr. Santiago Olivella i Nel·lo.

Hi everyone! My name is Rossella, ok… actually my official name is Rosa Letizia, but not even my parents use it! I am an Italian physicist living in Barcelona since 2008. Here I did a master's degree in Biomedical Engineering and then I obtained the doctorate in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from the University of Barcelona.

Osnat Zapata-Arteaga, Aleksandr Perevedentsev, Sara Marina, Jaime Martin, Juan Sebastián Reparaz*, and Mariano Campoy-Quiles*. 
ACS Energy Lett. 2020, 5, 9, 2972–2978. 

Hello everybody! My name is Theo Erik Marcusson. I am a swedish-spanish last year Nanoscience & Nanotechnology student in UAB, doing my BSc Final Thesis here in the ICMAB. It will be about simulating and studying the phenomenon of magnetophoresis in the Simulation and Theory group with Jordi Faraudo. I am really looking forward to absorb and interiorize as much knowledge as possible while I am here!

The first article of the joint project between ICMAB and MIT in the framework of the collaborative project MIT-SPAIN "la Caixa" Foundation SEED FUND is now published in Physical Review Materials. The project is focused on the investigation of new materials for photovoltaic applications. Ignasi Fina is the ICMAB researcher involved in the study. 

SusChem is the European Technology Platform for Sustainable Chemistry. It is a forum that brings together industry, academia, policy makers and the wider society. On two virtual sessions on 5 and 7 October 2020 the SusChem-Spain General Assembly took place. M. Rosa Palacín was invited in a roundtable about "Chemistry and Energy", in which she talked about new battery technolgies linked with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). 

The 8th International Conference on Spectroscopic Ellipsometry (ICSE8), organized by ICMAB researchers M. Isabel Alonso and Miquel Garriga among others, which took place between 26-31 May 2019 in Barcelona, has now published its proceedings in a special collection in the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B (published by the American Institute of Physics for the American Vacuum Society-AVS).

Leonardo Grants (BBVA Foundation) are intended to directly support personal projects of cultural researchers and creators in intermediate stages of their career, between 30 and 45 years of age, which are characterized by a highly innovative scientific, technological or cultural production. 

Hello, my name is Carlos García, I'm a last-year chemistry sudent at UAB and I'll be doing my degree's final project at ICMAB under supervision of Dr. Angel Pérez del Pino. I'm really looking forward to start this project and learn as much as I can.

Juan Forero-Saboya, Carine Davoisne, Rémi Dedryvère, Ibraheem Yousef, Pieremanuele Canepa * and  Alexandre Ponrouch *. 
Energy Environ. Sci., 2020, Advance Article. 

The European Commission has launched a Manifesto to maximise the accessibility of research results in the fight against COVID-19. The manifesto provides guiding principles for beneficiaries of EU research grants for coronavirus prevention, testing, treatment and vaccination to ensure that their research results will be accessible for all and guarantee a return on public investment.

Hello! My name is Alba Toro. I am a last-year student of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at UAB. I will be performing my final degree project at Molecular Nanoscience and Organic Materials Group

Eduardo Pérez del Río, Fabião Santos, Xavier Rodriguez Rodriguez, Marc Martínez-Miguel, Ramon Roca-Pinilla, Anna Arís, Elena Garcia-Fruitós, Jaume Veciana, Joachim P. Spatz, Imma Ratera, Judith Guasch. Biomaterials Volume 259, November 2020, 120313. 

Happy Nanotechnology Day! To celebrate it and to raise awareness of nanotechnology, we have created a short video that features our transmission and scanning electron microscopes (TEM and SEM), so you can see what the human eye cannot see. There is plenty of room at the bottom! 

Hey there! My name is Román Healy, I am student from Barcelona pursuing the last year of my bachelor's on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. I have joined ICMAB to do my bachelor thesis which is related to the Fabrication of Li-ion batteries at low voltages to use them in IoT autonomous sensors. As for me, I am a person that enjoys cooking, reading, travelling, drinking beer on a terrace in the afternoon, hiking and lastly, but most important, to be surrounded by people that I care for. I hope to have a wonderful time at ICMAB and to learn from the best!

Hi ! I’m Nanthilde and I’m from France. I completed a Master’s in Molecular and Cellular Biology. I have joined, as a PhD student, the Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites group. I will be working with bacterial cellulose for skin cultures. I speak a very little Spanish but I’m learning it ! I love photography, enjoying landscapes while walking the trails and cooking. I am delighted to join you, hope to meet everyone and learn new things !

Hi, my name is María José Mostazo and I am from Alicante. I have joined ICMAB to work as postdoc researcher in the group Inorganic Materials and Catalysis Laboratory during the next two years. I enjoy cinema, reading and travelling. I hope to have a great time at ICMAB during my stay here.

The Department of Postgraduate and Specialization of the CSIC organizes the  "II Conference for CSIC Doctoral Students" (II Jornada de Doctorandos del CSIC) online on Friday,16 October 2020. Deadline to register is the day before, 15 October 2020.  

We would like to invite you to the second PostDoc Talk of this new cycle of Online ICMAB Seminars:

Thermal transport and mechanical properties characterization using Extreme Ultraviolet coherent light

by Begoña Abad, Nanophononics Lab - Zardo group, Physics Department, University of Basel, Switzerland

Monday, 26 October 2020 @ 12 pm
Online Invited Seminar by Zoom. Register here to attend.
PostDoc Talks cycle

Two PhD positions will be available on February 1, 2021, at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) through the ERC Starting Grant project (Horizon 2020) entitled "Magnetic Insulators: An Enabling Platform for Innovative Spintronic Concepts" (MAGNEPIC) led by Dr. Can Onur Avci.

In the framework of the XXXII Chemistry Debate of the IEC (Institut d'Estudis Catalans), the Catalan Chemical Society (SCQ) awarded, on 16 September 2020, the certificates and awards of the 14th edition of the Research Projects Awards in Chemistry for high school students. One of the finalists of the awards, Arnau Garcia Labaila, did a project on nanomedicine to face cancer, supervised by one of the first PhD fellows graduated at the ICMAB Inorganic Materials and Catalysis Lab, Dr. Mar Abad Merino. 

Hola a totes! I'm Jordi, a BSc in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (UAB) now finishing my MSc in Plant Biotechnology in Wageningen University & Research (Netherlands). My scientific aim is to develop gene and metabolite carriers for plants to expand the emerging field of phyto-nanotechnology.

Graphene oxide (GO) assists a diverse set of promising routes to build bioactive neural microenvironments by easily interacting with other biomaterials to enhance their bulk features or, alternatively, self-assembling toward the construction of biocompatible systems with specific three-dimensional (3D) geometries.

On 25 September 2020, Rafael Navarro passed away in Zaragoza. He was a Materials Science Professor at the University of Zaragoza and the Institute of Materials Science of Aragon (currently, Institute of Nanoscience and Materials of Aragon, INMA). He was also a friend and collaborator of many ICMAB researchers working in the field of magnetic oxides and superconductors. 

Hello! My name is Sandra and I am from Barcelona. Currently, I am in the last year of my degree in chemistry and I will perform my Final Degree Project about Magnetic Graphene-based aerogels containing MOFs in the Solid State Chemistry’s group. I regard myself as a curious, enthusiastic and friendly person. Besides that, my favourites hobbies are dancing and travelling. I hope to pick up lot of knowledge, contribute as much as possible both to the group and to the MOF’s research project, and last but not least, enjoy of this new experience!

Within the framework of the celebration of the 2020 European Research & Innovation Days, different aspects of the R+D policy were addressed, including the next R+D Framework Programme, Horizon Europe (2021-2027). During the session "Get ready: A new ERA for Equality is calling", Jean-Eric Paquet, General Director of Research and Innovation of the European Commission, announced that every legal entity (public body, research center or higher education institution) must have an equality plan in place to access funding from the next Framework Programme.

María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, President of the Women for Africa Foundation (Fundación Mujeres por África) visited the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB) on Monday, 28 September 2020, in the afternoon. The visit was in the framework of the programme "Science By Women" (Ellas Investigan), which the ICMAB wishes to join in its next edition.