Dr. Concepció Rovira Angulo receives the award from the Real Sociedad Española de Química of Research Excellence 2015
The Junta de Gobierno of the Real Sociedad Española de Química agreed to approve the Award for Excellence in Research RSEQ 2015 to Dr. Concepció Rovira Angulo in recognition of her outstanding contributions to chemistry, embodied in conceptual developments and studies on multifunctional molecular materials, particularly electronic and / or magnetic properties. Her interdisciplinary research has a substantial effect on the development of nanoscience and molecular nanotechnology. Dr. Concepció Rovira is Research Professor of CSIC, under the Department of Molecular Nanoscience and Organic Materials Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC). Recently, she has been awarded the "2013 Distinguished Women in Chemistry" IUPAC Prize. She is the author of over 300 publications, over 50 in the last five years, with very strong presence in the most important journals in the field of materials and notorious visibility in multidisciplinary chemistry with high impact factor with tens of publications (Journal of the American Chemical Society / Angewandte Chemie / Chemical Science / Nature Chemistry), 8 of them in the last five years. She is the author of numerous patents, including two international and another in operation. In the last five years it has been principal investigator of three European projects and other with state funding; in that five-year period, she has given more than 30 lectures at conferences and national and international centres of research. She has directed 13 doctoral theses, 3 in the last five years.
A pyrene based dyad and triad leading to a reversible chemical and redox optical and magnetic switch
C. Franco, M. Mas-Torrent, A. Caballero, A. Espinosa, P. Molina, J. Veciana and C. Rovira
Chemistry A european Journal, 2015, 21, 5504 – 5509 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201405993
Two new pyrene-polychlorotriphenylmethyl (PTM) dyads and triads have been synthesized and characterized by optical, magnetic and electrochemical methods. The interplay between the different electronic states of the PTM moiety in the dyads and triads and the optical and magnetic properties of the molecules have been studied. The electronic spectra of the radicals show the intramolecular charge-transfer (ICT) transition at around 700 nm due to the acceptor character of the PTM radical. In the diamagnetic protonated derivatives, the fluorescence due to the pyrene is maintained, whereas in the radicals and the corresponding anions there is a clear quenching of the fluorescence. The redox activity of PTM radicals that are easily reduced to the corresponding carbanion has been exploited to fabricate electrochemical switches with optical and magnetic response.
Control of cell proliferation through bioinspired materials
In nature, cells react to complex mechanical and biological stimuli whose understanding is essential for tissue construction in regenerative medicine. A review how research progresses toward the design of integrative, holistic scaffold platforms based on the exploration of individual mechanical and biological effectors and their further combination has been published in Nanomedicinejournal.
Integrating mechanical and biological control of cell proliferation through bioinspired multieffector materials. J. Seras-Franzoso, W. I Tatkiewicz, E. Vazquez, E. García Fruitós, I. Ratera, J. Veciana, A. Villaverde.
Nanomedicine(Lond.) (2015) 10(5)
Participation of the NANOMOL group in the Mobile World Centre 2015
6 March 2015
Participation of the NANOMOL group in the Mobile World Centre 2015 exhibition of devices fabricated in the framework of collaboration with the Ramón Llull University - La Salle Campus Barcelona
The curious Link device was presented in the section Music in the air. This device allows composing music with the coloured harp by bringing one's hands close to its surfaces. This instrument integrates nanosensors developed by the NANOMOL group which detect variations in temperatures. The sensor placed inside the musical instrument sense the temperature differences between the ambient and the hand and activates the different sounds. This sensor is constructed as a versatile film which allows it to be installed easily in different materials.
Nanomol Technologies, a spin-off of ICMAB, one of the companies which has participated in the documentary, titled "Inversió de Futur" of the weekly "SenseFicció" TV3
10 October 2014
The Last 7th October, it aired on TV3, during the program SenseFicció, the documentary "Future Investment" in relation to Catalan companies based on research and innovation. The documentary is very interesting and Dr. Evelyn Moreno and Dr. Nora Ventosa from ICMAB appear since minute 9:14.
Links | http://www.tv3.cat/3alacarta | http://blogs.tv3.cat/senseficcio
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