February 2, 2015
Prof. Kilian Muñiz has been appointed as International Advisory Board member of The Chemical Record. The Chemical Record is a “highlights” journal publishing timely and critical overviews of new developments at the cutting edge of chemistry of interest to a wide audience of chemists. The scope of published reviews includes all areas related to physical […]
January 30, 2015
Anna Homs, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren, has defensed her PhD Thesis entitled “Digging into Gold(I) Catalysis: Silver and Counterion Effects and Total Synthesis of Nardoaristolone B” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on January 29th at the ICIQ auditorium. The […]
January 27, 2015
Big data is a widely used term referred to the massive accumulation of data that can not be analyzed using traditional tools. It si an increasingly expanded phenomenon affecting many fields such as health care, employment, economic productivity, crime, security, or resource management. It is not easy to manage all these data. The process involves […]
January 20, 2015
Professor Stephen L. Buchwald, chairman of ICIQ’s Scientific Advisory Board, has received the 2014 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in basic sciences. The award recognizes Buchwald’s work on “the development of catalytic routes based on palladium and copper to construct carbon-nitrogen and carbon-carbon molecular bonds,” according to the jury. “Steve Buchwald’s work has tremendously […]
January 20, 2015
In the race for cost-effective electrocatalytic water oxidation, the most promising materials appear to be metal oxides, layered double hydroxides, Prussian-blue-type coordination polymers, and supported polyoxometalates. All exhibit advantages and disadvantages, depending on working conditions, for the development of a technically and economically efficient platform for artificial photosynthesis, as discussed by J. R. Galán-Mascarós in this […]
January 19, 2015
Once again ICIQ collaborates with the Education Department from the Generalitat de Catalunya with a course that is part of the selection of optional training courses for high school teachers. The course, “Methods of analysis of organic compounds,” is organised by Dr. Gisela Colet, manager of ICIQ’s research support area, with the support of unit […]
January 19, 2015
Everytime a new training experience is about to start there’s always expectation and hope. Expectation for what’s yet to come and hope for having quality time translated into fullfilment. Our 2014 Crazy about Chemistry students received their diplomas last December. Sorrounded by their proud families they kept promises of stablishing contact from time to time. […]