February 7, 2018
Dr. Elisabet Romero has joined our institute through ICIQ’s Starting Career Programme (ICIQ-SCP) aimed at attracting new talent and help young researchers to start their independent careers. The programme is funded by the Severo Ochoa Excellence grant. “I am excited to start this new scientific adventure. ICIQ has everything I could wish for: a wide […]
February 6, 2018
Understanding the hydrogen production from alcohol reforming by multiscale modelling Alcohols and sugars are among the main derivatives of non-edible biomass. The transformation of these molecules into hydrogen or other chemicals by reforming technologies could lead to a more sustainable future. However, hydrogen production from long-chain alcohols has a very complex reaction networks. Even a […]
January 31, 2018
Back in the 1930s, astronomers detected one of the first molecules in interstellar space – carbynes. The simplest carbyne, formed by carbon and hydrogen only, is nowadays considered one of the most basic ingredients for life. Despite the impact these molecules could have in synthesis, they had eluded chemists for years. But now, researchers at […]
January 30, 2018
Every year, Synfacts reviews the most-read highlights published in their journal. It was a great pleasure to see that two ICIQ papers appear in 2017’s top-10. In one of them, Benjamin List and Francesca Mandrelli review the work of Prof. Paolo Melchiorre on the asymmetric formation of quaternary carbons by iminium-ion trapping of radicals, published in Nature […]
January 19, 2018
The Catalan section of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) has just awarded the ‘Josep Castells’ award for best PhD theses to two ICIQ PhD students: Dr. Ruth Dorel (Prof. Echavarren‘s group, now a Ramón Areces postdoc fellow at Prof. Feringa’s lab) and Dr. Ignacio Funes (Prof. Maseras‘ group, where he now collaborates as […]
January 17, 2018
Last year, during its Founding Conference, the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) announced the eight projects that would undergo the first phase of their Ignite Programme. Ignite was created to boost innovative research projects that promote collaborations between BIST centres. Now, BIST has awarded three outstanding multidisciplinary projects the opportunity to move on to the second phase of […]
January 9, 2018
The Science Museum of London now exhibits a new display dedicated to artificial leaves as new forms of clean energy. This display –entitled Can sunlight make medicine?– focuses on the ability of photochemistry to use energy from light to perform unprecedented chemical transformations. The interactive screens feature interviews, explanations and quotes of different experts in the […]