June 10, 2022
Two researchers from ICIQ have been recognised with the To the Mothers of Science Award by BIST. The researchers will receive financial support as well as coaching sessions to strengthen their leadership skills Being a scientist and a mother is a challenge that many researchers face every day. For the past three years, the Barcelona […]
June 9, 2022
The team has been awarded for the discovery, fundamental understanding, and technical development of a novel catalytic technology for the recycling of carbon dioxide to produce sustainable methanol. New technologies that utilise carbon dioxide are crucial for achieving global targets to overcome our reliance on fossil fuels in the fight against climate change. The Sustainable […]
June 7, 2022
Europe’s top chemistry professors, including ICIQ’s Prof. Antonio Echavarren and two Nobel Prize laureates, have gathered at the Brussels Metropole Hotel to recreate the iconic picture made in 1927 during the Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons. The world-famous photo shows the prime of the scientific leadership of that time, including Marie Skłodowska-Curie and […]
June 3, 2022
Would you like to know what we are doing with the Severo Ochoa funds? In 2020, ICIQ was awarded this recognition and we have invested the funds in different activities such as: research and training, strengthening our institution, programmes to offer new opportunities through fellowships, among other initiatives. We are glad to share with you […]
June 1, 2022
Under the umbrella of the SUNERGY pan-European initiative, the newly funded SUNER-C programme will strengthen the solar fuels and chemicals community within Europe. To accelerate innovation in the sector of solar fuels and chemicals, the 3-year SUNER-C programme entitled “SUNERGY Community and eco-system for accelerating the development of solar fuels and chemicals” has been funded […]
May 31, 2022
The group of Prof. Arjan Kleij, together with ICIQ’s innovation laboratory CSOL led by Dr. Fernando Bravo and several collaborators including universities, technology centers and industrial companies across Europe are developing ICIQ’s Bio-Based Polymer Platform, which is built around the catalysis and polymerization know-how developed by the Kleij research group. Following the principles of a […]
May 30, 2022
Researchers from Prof. Martin’s group at ICIQ have published a paper in Nature Communications describing, for the first time, the use of ketones as alkyl cross-coupling synthons. For Xin-Yang Lv and Dr. Roman Abrams, researchers in Prof. Martin’s group at the Institute for Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), keeping up with scientific literature is a […]