Ingrid Cabrera has been awarded the Extraordinary PhD Award from the UAB
Nanomol group congratulates Dr. Ingrid Cabrera for the extraordinary award received for her PhD thesis. The thesis was supervised by Dra. Nora Ventosa and Prof. Jaume Veciana from Nanomol and it is entitled: “Nanovesicle-bioactive conjugates to be used as nanomedicines, prepared by a one-step scalable method using CO2-expanded solvents”.
A Rapid, Low-Cost, and Scalable Technique for Printing State-of-the-Art Organic Field-Effect Transistors
Temiño, I., Del Pozo, F. G., Ajayakumar, M. R., Galindo, S., Puigdollers, J. and Mas-Torrent, M. (2016), Adv. Mater. Technol., 1600090. doi:10.1002/admt.201600090
In the last few years exciting advances have been achieved in developing printing techniques for organic semiconductors, and impressive mobility values have been reported for the resulting organic field-effect transistors (OFETs). However, not all these techniques are scalable and some of them require additional crystallization steps. This study reports on the fabrication of OFETs employing blends of four benchmark organic semiconductors with polystyrene and demonstrates that applying the same formulation and experimental conditions for printing them, highly reproducible and uniform crystalline films exhibiting high OFET performance are successfully achieved. It is noted that the mobility values achieved here are not the highest reported for the studied materials; however, they are state-of-the-art values and could be regarded as exceptional considering the low cost and fast speed of the fabrication process involved here.
Read more here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/admt.201600090/full
Nanomol-ICMAB participates in a project to perform clinic studies on the application of nanovesicles with epithelial growth factor in ulcers
24th October 2016
Nanomol-ICMAB group participates in the project Nano-Nafres (COMRDI15- 1-0023) that belongs to the RIS3CAT community “Technologies applied to health”.
The objective of this project is to perfom preclinic and clinic studies on the application of nanovesicles (quatsomes) with epithelial growth factor in venous ulcers.
This project has been cofunded 50% by the European Regional Development Funds from the European Union within the framework of the operative FEDER program in Catalonia 2014-2020.
El Instituto de Ciencia de los Materiales de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) participa en el proyecto Retos de Colaboración NANO4DERM
10th October 2016
Almirall S.A, el Instituto de Ciencia de los Materiales de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) y el Centro Tecnológico Leitat han firmado un acuerdo de colaboración para abordar un proyecto de investigación en nanomedicina aplicado al área dermatológica, Nano4Derm. El objetivo principal del proyecto es el desarrollo de formulaciones innovadoras que contengan principios activos nanoencapsulados, para el tratamiento de enfermedades inflamatorias de la piel, como el acné y psoriasis. Este proyecto está financiado por la convocatoria Retos de Colaboración 2016 del Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad y cofinanciado por fondos Feder de la Comisión Europea para "promover el desarrollo tecnológico, la innovación y una investigación de calidad”.
Pressure-Induced Conductivity in a Neutral Non-planar Spin-localized Radical
M. Souto, H. B. Cui, M. Peña-Álvarez, V. G. Baonza, H. O. Jeschke, M. Tomic, R. Valentí, D. Blasi, I. Ratera, C. Rovira, J. Veciana
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138 (36), pp 11517–11525
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b02888
There is a growing interest in the development of single-component molecular conductors based on neutral organic radicals that are mainly formed by delocalized planar radicals, such as phenalenyl or thiazolyl radicals. However, there are no examples of systems based on non-planar and spin-localized C-centered radicals exhibiting electrical conductivity due to their large Coulomb energy (U) repulsion and narrow electronic bandwidth (W) that give rise to a Mott insulator behavior. Here we present a new type of non-planar neutral radical conductor attained by linking a tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) donor unit to a neutral polychlorotriphenylmethyl radical (PTM) with the important feature that the TTF unit enhances the overlap between the radical molecules as a consequence of short intermolecular S•••S interactions. This system becomes semiconducting upon the application of high pressure thanks to increased electronic bandwidth and charge reorganization opening the way to develop a new family of neutral radical conductors.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.6b02888
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