July 15, 2015
Alejandro Díaz, Postdoctoral Researcher in Prof. P. Ballester group, has received the Calix 2015 Poster Award for his poster entitled ‘Photo-responsive Dimeric Capsules Assembled from Tetraurea Calix[4]arenes and Tetraurea Calix[4]pyrroles’. The poster -that also was selected for a flash communication- illustrates the studies performed on the light-controlled capture and release of polar molecules by tetraureido […]
July 14, 2015
Professor Núria López has been awarded a ‘Proof of Concept’ (PoC) grant for the project ‘Big Data for Catalysis’. The #BigData4Cat project aims to develop the ioChem-BD platform. A multi-headed tool aimed to parse, organise, publish and analyse results of computational chemistry research projects. Today, ICIQ has hosted a hackathon where the participants have tested […]
July 14, 2015
Ekaterina Smirnova, PhD student in Echavarren’s group, has received the EuCOMC XXI Poster Award for her poster entitled ‘Intriguing Reactivity of a Linear Tetranuclear Gold(I) Complex’. The poster describes linear tetranuclear gold(I) complex with 2,6-bis(diphenylphosphino)pyridine (DPPPY) as ligand that is a catalyst for the 1,6-enyne cycloisomerization, the formation of 2-substituted indenes from alkynyl cycloheptatrienes, as […]
July 9, 2015
The collaboration between the groups of Prof. Pau Ballester at ICIQ and Prof. Eduard Llobet at URV has allowed the development of a sensor highly selective for benzene in air with a lower limit of detection to the extent permitted by law. The work has been published in Advanced Functional Materials and selected for the back […]
July 8, 2015
ICIQ has signed a Research Collaboration Agreement with Syngenta, a leading multinational company working in the fields of seeds, seed care and crop protection. The collaboration will last one year and Dr. Alexandr Shafir, ICIQ group leader, will be in charge of the project. “For us, this collaboration with Syngenta represents a great opportunity to […]
July 6, 2015
Bart Herlé, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. A. M. Echavarren, has received the OMCOS Poster Award for his poster entitled ‘Electrophilic Gold(I) Carbenes via Decarbenation of Cycloheptatrienes’. The poster describes the work that has been done on the formation and reactivity of gold(I) carbenes, formed by the retro-Buchner -or decarbenation- reaction of 1,3,5-cycloheptatrienyl […]
June 26, 2015
Six top Catalan research centres constitute ‘The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology’ to pursue a joint scientific endeavour. • CRG, ICIQ, ICN2,ICFO, IFAE and IRB Barcelona come together in this new institution. • The Barcelona Institute emerges as one of the leading scientific institutes in Europe, ranking fourth in the number of ERC grants […]