Two weeks ago ESR Manuela Meloni from University of Sussex (Brighton, UK) visited partner ICB-CSIC in Zaragoza (March 7-17, 2017). The occasion for her to follow a training course on XPS analysis by Ana Benito. Manuela’s personal page is here – University of Sussex presentation page is here. And ICB-CSIC presentation page is here.
In Spain or in France, same dedication to science communication! Our students participated in outreach activities while high schoolers visited the labs of ICB-CSIC (Spain) and IMN-CNRS (France).
Nano Wars – Parte I is the first short film produced by students of Enabling Excellence! How to explain the rules of the game “Jenga”? How would you explain nanoscience to teenagers? These are two questions trainees had to answer and “film” during the video training held at the IMN in Nantes, January, 24th and…
Improved electro-grafting of nitropyrene onto onion-like carbon via in situ electrochemical reduction and polymerization: tailoring redox energy density of the supercapacitor positive electrode. B. Anothumakkool, P.-L.Taberna, B. Daffos, P. Simon, Y. Sayed-Ahmad-Baraza, C. Ewels, T. Brousse, J. Gaubicher, J. Mater. Chem. A, Adv. Article (2017). We report an improved method for the physical grafting of…
C60, the football shaped molecule whose discovery led to the Nobel Prize in 1996, has recently been proven to exist in space. A new study from “Enabling Excellence” groups at the Institute of Materials Jean Rouxel in Nantes, the National Hellenic Research Foundation and colleagues in seven other laboratories across Europe, Turkey and Canada suggest…
Wotton-under-Edge (UK), October 24-28 2016. Daniel Funes Hernando has spent one week in Renishaw plc. There, he learnt from Dominik Winterauer, Tim Batten and the rest of the crew of the Bristish company. Although he had already received formation in Raman spectroscopy during his career, he discovered a new world during his stay. They…
Athens (Greece), September 26 – October 7, 2016. ITN student Ana Santidrián from Instituto de Carboquímica ICB-CSIC (Zaragoza, Spain) travelled to National Hellenic Research Foundation (Athens, Greece) in September to complete a 2-week secondment working on Nanocarbon Materials. During her stay, Ana had the opportunity to learn about Nanocarbon Materials and characterization techniques. She worked…
Wotton-under-Edge/Bristol (UK), July 5-15 2016. Mario Peláez Fernández from the Institute of Nanosciences of Aragon (INA), took part in an exchange to Renishaw plc to transfer image processing techniques from Raman imaging to transmission electron microscopy (TEM) imaging; as well as getting some insight on Raman spectroscopy.
Nantes (France), June 16-27, 2016. ITN student Dominik Winterauer from Renishaw plc (Wotton-under-Edge, UK) learned from ITN student Daniel Funes Hernando from the Institute des Matériaux Jean Rouxel in Nantes (IMN) how to grow gold nanowires. Nanowires appear to be promising samples for future experiments on Raman microscopy mapping. Daniel prepared the required instrumentation and…
Oxford (UK), May 17-27, 2016. ITN student Ana Santidrián from Instituto de Carboquímica ICB-CSIC (Zaragoza, Spain) travelled to M-Solv (Oxford, UK) in May to complete a 2-week secondment working on laser treatments with the ITN student Sebastian Nufer and Dr. Adam Brunton. In this period, Ana had the opportunity to learn about laser devices, laser…
In collaboration with M-SOLV Ltd, Alan Dalton and his teams at Sussex and Surrey University have shown that silver nanowires, which are more than a thousand times thinner than a human hair, are a viable alternative to the currently used material, indium tin oxide (ITO), which is expensive to source, expensive to process and –…
Zaragoza (Spain), April 11-May 7 2016. Daniel Funes Hernando, from Institute of Materials of Nantes (IMN), went to Carboquímica in Zaragoza to combine his nanostructures with the ones produced there. He coupled his metal-containing nanosystems with the organic species from Lorenzo Vallan and Emin Istif. They expect to obtain new amazing optical properties from these…
Nantes (France), April 11-25, 2016. The 2 week secondment of Sebastian from M-Solv to the IMN in Nantes targeted the simulation of the interaction of graphene with selected molecules. Different types of defects were introduced into the graphene sheet and the binding energy with the molecules were computed. The theoretical results need to be confirmed…
Structure, Properties, Functionalization, and Applications of Carbon Nanohorns Nikolaos Karousis, Irene Suarez-Martinez, Christopher P. Ewels, and Nikos Tagmatarchis Chem. Rev., 2016, 116 (8), pp 4850–4883 A review of carbon nanohorns, nanoscale conical carbon nanoobjects, has been published by Partners NHRF and CNRS-IMN in the journal Chemical Reviews. Nanohorns may have the potential to replace graphene…
Brussels (Belgium), April 3-7, 2016. ChemOnTubes is an international scientific meeting around the chemistry of carbon nanomaterials and their applications. This year, it was placed in the heart of Europe Brussels, Belgium. It was organized by Gregory van Lier (chairman), Vrije Universiteit, and Universite de Bordeaux and also with their great hospitality. The conference topics…
ITN “Enabling Excellence” gets broad coverage in the Sunday edition of “Heraldo de Aragón” Newspaper.
Benasque (Spain), Dec. 7-11, 2015. Directly after the Cambridge Communication Workshop we were rushing to the HeteroNanoCarb 2015 Conference to already see if we can successfully apply the valuable communication tricks learned a week ago. HeteroNanoCarb2015 is a conference series organized by our ITN member Raul Arenal. The conference topic refers to Advances and applications…
Zaragoza (Spain), Dec. 10-11, 2015. The IBERNAM Annual Meeting took place in Zaragoza (Spain) in December 10-11, 2015. IBERNAM is the Spanish Network on Micro and Nanosystems that integrates the research national groups from Universities, public and private research centres, technological centres and companies. The IBERNAM network focuses on the industrial application of the Micro…
Hinxton (UK), Nov. 29-Dec 4, 2015. Enabling Excellence team at Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton (UK) Communication Workshop, 29th Nov – 4th Dec 2015. The first Enabling Excellence workshop took place at Wellcome Genome Campus, in Hinxton (England). This was the occasion for the Enabling Excellence team to gather for a week of training on Communications.…
Alan Dalton and Raul Arenal visit the team in ICB-CSIC in Zaragoza…
The GCNN Group of Carbon Nanostructures and Nanotechnology, our partner from CSIC in Zaragoza, have their own facebook page now:
The NHRF team in Athens: the two newly hired ESRs – Ruben Canton-Vitoria and Antonia Kagkoura – together with the supervisor Nikos Tagmatarchis, are sitting in the front line, from left to right, respectively. Older members of the group, PhD students and postdocs, are standing behind.
The 1st of October is the start date for many of our new students in the project, so welcome to “Enabling Excellence”! We’ll be posting some information on the new recruits in each group over the coming weeks and months, as well as more details of their research projects… The project has new students from…
Exfoliated semiconducting pure 2H-MoS2 and 2H-WS2 assisted by chlorosulfonic acid. Georgia Pagona, Carla Bittencourt, Raul Arenal and Nikos Tagmatarchis (2015). First steps towards controlled production of individual monolayers of MoS2 and WS2, as either semiconducting or metallic material. Following this promising start, the ESRs in the project will be developing and improving these approaches, soon…
The Enabling Excellence team met for the first time at our Kick Off meeting in June 2015, at the Institute of Materials Jean Rouxel in Nantes, France. Recruitment is going well, many project ideas were discussed and developed, an exciting start to the science and technology to come!
