April 24, 2020
Looking on the bright side, the general lockdown we are living has its perks, like learning to enjoy the beauty of small things. One of them is the (mesmerizing) video on the dynamics of confined water that researchers from ICIQ’s Bo group have created. In collaboration with international institutions, the Bo group has published a […]
April 22, 2020
“I’m proud that ICIQ is an agile organization responding to this unforeseen emergency. We are all grateful for the imagination and work of all our dedicated colleagues,” says Miquel A. Pericàs, ICIQ Director The COVID-19 health emergency has put to test our capacity to respond to such a challenge according to everyone’s abilities and domain […]
April 20, 2020
Born into a farming family of ten, Ben Feringa has always been fascinated by nature. He studied Chemistry at the University of Groningen, where he also obtained his PhD with the thesis entitled “Asymmetric oxidation of phenols. Atropisomerism and optical activity” under the guidance of Professor Hans Wynberg. After a professional stint at Shell, Feringa […]
April 9, 2020
Former ICIQ PhD student, Yuanyuan Shi has been selected by Forbes magazine as one of the 30 under 30 people in Europe to watch in Science & Health Care of the Class of 2020. Forbes 30 under 30 is a set of lists issued annually by Forbes to highlight 30 young visionary leaders (under 30 […]
April 8, 2020
ICIQ group leader Antoni Llobet will coordinate the LICROX project, awarded 3 M€ by the European Commission. LICROX will be funded within the “Boosting emerging technologies” FET Proactive Horizon 2020 programme. Achieving artificial photosynthesis would be one of the most efficient paths to fight climate change. Photoelectrochemical cells (PECs) have the potential to become efficient […]
April 3, 2020
In 2013, researchers from the former ICIQ Urakawa group (now based at Technische Universiteit Delft) reported a new method for the one-step conversion of CO2 to methanol. The work, published in the Journal of Catalysis and highlighted in Science, describes a continuous flow process for close-to-quantitative one-pass hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol where conventional and […]
March 31, 2020
Prof. Rubén Martín, ICIQ group leader and ICREA professor, has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant to develop the project NOVOFLAT: “Escaping from Flatland by ‘de novo’ Catalytic Decarboxylation Techniques.” With a 2,5M € budget and 5-year scope, the project aims at creating a new and general method to forge saturated carbon-carbon […]