Finding new ways to use CO2 and turn it into valuable products is of vital importance to overcome the challenges our society faces. This is exactly what the project “Photocatalytic CO2 reductions by green hydrogen” PHOTORED, coordinated by ICIQ, aims to do. “We’re very happy to participate in this project, as it is aligned with […]

On 22 December 2021, the General Assembly for the project BASE3D took place. BASE3D is an aggrupation of Catalan institutions dedicated to innovation in additive manufacturing (3D-printing). ICIQ is collaborating in this association through CSOL, and has prepared reactive monomers as components of new photo-polymerizable resins to be used in DLP 3D-printer with visible light. […]

Professor Robert Grubbs passed away on December 19th, we join his family and friends in their loss. Grubbs shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Yves Chauvin and Richard R. Schrock “for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis.” In olefin metathesis, a catalyst is used to break the bonds of carbon […]

Kun Guo, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Arjan Kleij (ICIQ), has defended his PhD thesis entitled “Copper and Nickel Promoted Transformations of Alkyne based Cyclic Carbonates” (assigned to the Department of Analytical and Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on December 20th. The members of the evaluation committee were Prof. […]

David Nieto, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. José-Ramón Galán-Mascarós (ICIQ), has defended his PhD thesis entitled “Advances in Spin Crossover: Synthesis, Mechanosynthesis and Switchable Multifunctional Hybrids” (assigned to the Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on December 17th. The members of the evaluation committee were Prof. Carmen […]

Èric Cots, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Kilian Muñiz (ICIQ) & Prof. Marcos Garcia Suero (ICIQ), has defended his PhD thesis entitled “Understanding Iodine (I/III) Catalysis: From Racemic to Enantioselective Transformations” (assigned to the Department of Analytical and Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on December 17th. The members of […]

Quentin Bouvier, PhD student under the the supervision of Prof. Pau Ballester (ICIQ) & Dr. Stefanie Eiden (COVESTRO), has defended his PhD thesis entitled “Encapsulation of Reactive Components for Polyurethane Systems” (assigned to the Department of Analytical and Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on December 16th. The members of the evaluation […]