February 6, 2019
Six CSA projects have been selected for the 2018 call “FETFLAG-01-2018” within one of the three main research areas proposed: Information and communication technology (ICT) and Connected Society; Health and Life Sciences; and Energy, Environment and Climate Change. These actions aim at preparing new European large scale research initiatives to be potentially supported in the […]
February 5, 2019
The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) has awarded three outstanding multidisciplinary projects within the BIST Community with grants to continue developing the projects initiated with the BIST Ignite Programme. One of the awarded projects, Quantum-controlled Single Protein Electron Transport (Q-SPET), is led by Pau Gorostiza from IBEC, Niek F. van Hulst form ICFO, […]
February 4, 2019
Since their first use in 2009, perovskite-based solar cells have evolved rapidly due to their excellent properties to transform light into electrical charges, thus accelerating the research on solar energy to produce electricity. In a new paper, ICIQ scientists from the Palomares group in collaboration with researchers from the Izmir Katip Celebi University (Turkey) demonstrate […]
January 30, 2019
CreatSens Health has received the prize to the most promising startup at the IQS Tech Fest 2019, held on January 24th in Barcelona. The award-winning company is focused on monitoring the progress of chronic kidney disease through state-of-the-art technology tools that allow the measurement of parameters relevant to patients, in a much simpler way than […]
January 30, 2019
Antonio M. Echavarren, ICIQ group leader and president of the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry (RSEQ), has received a European Research Council (ERC) “Proof of Concept” grant for the development of efficient routes for the synthesis of polyacenes. Polyacenes are a family of organic molecules composed of rings of benzene, a cyclic hydrocarbon formed by […]
January 28, 2019
Hisashi Yamamoto is a professor at Chubu University and an emeritus professor at the University of Chicago. He studied chemistry at Kyoto University and then moved to Harvard University, where he earned his PhD in 1971. Over the years, Yamamoto has uncovered novel aspects of Lewis and Brønsted acid catalysts in selective organic synthesis, major […]
January 25, 2019
Franziska Hegner, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Núria López and José Ramón Galán-Mascarós (ICIQ), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Experimental and theoretical investigation of Prussian blue-type catalysts for artificial photosynthesis” (assigned to the Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on January 25th at the ICIQ […]