December 23, 2009
The article Zeolite Catalysts with Tunable Hierarchy Factor by Pore-Growth Moderators (Adv. Funct. Mater. 2009, 19, 3972-3979), co-authored by Javier Pérez-Ramírez, Danny Verboekend, Adriana Bonilla and Sònia Abelló, has been highlighted on the front-cover of Advanced Functional Materials on its last issue of the year.The authors introduce the hierarchy factor as a valuable descriptor to […]
December 17, 2009
Prof. Piet van Leeuwen, ICIQ group Leader, has been awarded with a European Research Council Advanced Grant for his project “A New Vision on Nanocatalysts (NANOSONWINGS)”.Moreover, ERC grants aim to support “frontier research”, in other words the pursuit of questions at or beyond the frontiers of knowledge, without regard for established disciplinary boudaries.
December 16, 2009
On Wednesdey 16th December, the Catalan Government agreed to award the Narcís Monturiol Prizes to thirteen researches and three entities, among which the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia. These awards were founded by the Catalan Government on 1982 and reward the scientific and technological merit of people and entities which have contributed outstandingly to […]
December 9, 2009
According to the Essential Science Indicators database of Thomson Reuters, covering the period January 1999 to June 2009, three members of ICIQ’s Scientific Advisory Board are among the top ten most cited chemists. Professors Stephen L. Buchwald, George M. Whitesides and Michael Grätzel hold the 1st, 7th and 8th positions, with 86.68, 73.00 and 63.89 […]
December 1, 2009
The article Formation of unusual trinuclear assemblies: Scope and mechanism of Zn(salphen)-templated activation of pyridine-alcohol substrates (Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2009, 5307-5318), authored by Marta Martínez Belmonte, Eduardo C. Escudero-Adán, Jordi Benet-Buchholz, and Arjan W. Kleij, has been highlighted on the Cover of European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry on issue 35. The authors report the […]
November 25, 2009
An article about the research of Dr. Núria López group, about heterogeneous catalysis and computational chemistry, has been published in the November issue of Teraflop. Download PDF
November 24, 2009
During the Science Week, ICIQ has carried out several activities with the aim to bring Chemistry closer to society. From 16th to 20th November, several secondary schools were invited to visit ICIQ facilities, so that students could learn how a research project is carried out and witness the way scientists do research in a cutting-edge […]