David Amabilino (ICMAB Incumbent Director)

ICMAB - New papers on magnetism, metal-organic frameworks and new battery materials

🧲🔋✨ New research from #ICMAB!
Our scientists have co-authored three papers in top journals, covering magnetism, metal-organic frameworks, and next-gen batteries.
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YouTube video by CANAL 9 SORIA CANAL 9 AL DÍA | Vivimos la Noche Europea de los Investigadores en Soria

🚙Un reportatge amb Judith Oró, Stefania Sandoval i Daniel Martín per la presentació del projecte #LABTOUR a la #NitRecerca a Sòria! 🧪🔬🧫

👩🏻‍🔬CANAL 9 AL DÍA | Vivimos la Noche Europea de los Investigadores en Soria youtu.be/8LCqunQdzVA?... via #YouTube

Good morning from #BIOSPAIN! 🌿
Our #TechTransfer Officer, Alfonso del Rey, is at the @csic.es booth representing @icmabcsic.bsky.social, showcasing:
🔹 EGOFET-based diagnostics
🔹 Hydrogels for CAR-T therapy
Li-based #BNCT therapy
Also there: #nanoGLA with Nano4Rare!
👋Meet you there! biospain.com

Our researchers Núria Aliaga, Anna Roig and Marta Mas-Torrent have won two LLAVOR and one PRODUCTE grants from AGAUR Indústria del Coneixement program @recercauniscat.bsky.social
Driving innovation from lab to society.
🧵👇

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ICMAB - ICMAB scientists recognized in the 2025 edition of the Stanford Citation Ranking

🎉 17 ICMAB researchers are featured in the career-long #StanfordCitationRanking, and 18 in the 2024 single-year list of the world’s top 2 % most influential scientists.

👏 Congratulations to all!

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#ICMAB #StanfordRanking #ResearchExcellence

New #ICMABReserch published in ACS Nano!

📌Crystallographic Engineering of Spin Transport in Antiferromagnetic NiO Thin Films

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📜Read the paper here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

📢Demà inaugurem l'exposició 'QUÀNTICA I L'ICMAB', un espai per celebrar l'Any Internacional de la Ciència i Tecnologia Quàntiques!

📅Dimarts, 30 de setembre de 2025
🕙10.00 AM
📍@icmabcsic.bsky.social

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🔬 Un nou dispositiu desenvolupat per l’@icmabcsic.bsky.social permet #sublimar molècules orgàniques directament sobre qualsevol superfície, sense passos intermedis ni dissolvents.

💡 Innovació sostenible destacada a R+D @csic.es
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Rare-Earth Silicates as High-Temperature Surfactants for the Controlled Synthesis of ε-Fe2O3 Nanoparticles The functional properties of nanocrystals can be finely tuned through controlled morphology and size. However, this can be challenging for metastable nanostructures that require harsh synthesis conditions, such as high temperatures. Here, we present a method for preparing large ε-Fe2O3 nanorods that are not affected by magnetic relaxation. This study presents a novel growth mechanism in which high-aspect-ratio rods evolve from spherical ε-Fe2O3 particles in a silica matrix containing Y3+. With the presence of Y3+, the glassy matrix undergoes a metastable binodal decomposition yielding the formation of nanodroplets of a Y-rich silicate of composition ∼Y2Si2O7. This Y silicate selectively coats the ε-Fe2O3 planes perpendicular to the rod axis along the [100] direction but is not observed in the rod apexes. Structural optimizations and energy calculations of different crystal faces of ε-Fe2O3 in contact with Y2Si2O7 obtained using machine-learning force fields provide an atomistic interpretation of these observations: the affinity of Y with the oxygen atoms exposed at ε-Fe2O3 surfaces explains the preferential capping of ε-Fe2O3 surfaces that present a large density of oxygen atoms and its absence in surfaces such as (100), where this density is significantly lower. The presence or absence of the silicate capping layer results in different surface energies and/or mass transfer coefficients across the interface, originating two independent Ostwald ripening processes, which drive the high aspect ratio growth. By using La3+ instead of Y3+, ε-Fe2O3 rods with even larger aspect ratios are obtained. Notably, this synthetic approach counteracts the progressive diminution of the average nanoparticle size observed in ε-(Fe1–xCrx)2O3 upon Cr3+ addition, enabling to elucidate the effect of this substitution on the intrinsic magnetic anisotropy and the anisotropy fields that determine the high-frequency ferromagnetic resonances of this phase.

Can the cocenpt of surfactants be generalized to solid state? Check out our JACS @acs.org paper @icmabcsic.bsky.social. It includes our first neural network potential based calculations used for interpretation of experiments in this great collaboration w/ Martí Gich team pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Manifiesto SOMMa: La acción climática: conocimiento científico y consenso social Como centro miembro, el ICTA-UAB nos adherimos al manifiesto emitido por la Alianza SOMMa sobre la urgencia de abordar la emergencia climática...

🆕Como centro SOMMa nos sumamos a este manifiesto

🌍👩‍🔬La Alianza SOMMa considera urgente abordar la emergencia climática con una política de país, basada en el conocimiento y las evidencias científicas, que asegure continuidad, estabilidad y consenso social.

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Bon #SantJordi! Us desitjem un dia ple de llibres i roses!🌹

Aquí us deixem unes quantes recomanacions literàries fetes pels ICMABers. Des de divulgació científica a clàssics de la literatura de ciència ficció, segur que n'hi ha algun del vostre gust!📚

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Electronics, energy and health: They’re all materials science At ICMAB-CSIC in Barcelona, four scientists reveal how multidisciplinary approaches are driving the development of new materials to meet global challenges.

🧪 From #calcium batteries to biomedical #nanozymes and light-shaping #nanophotonics, @icmabcsic.bsky.social researchers are engineering the materials of tomorrow — tackling challenges in health, energy and electronics.

📖 Read more: www.nature.com/articles/d42...

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ICMAB - Revolutionizing light manipulation: ICMAB’s advances in chiral plasmonic nanostructures

🔬 Revolutionizing light manipulation at the nanoscale!

👐Researchers from @icmabcsic.bsky.social have published two breakthrough studies on #chiral plasmonic nanostructures—offering new ways to control light using cost-effective fabrication techniques.

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🏅Enhorabuena al personal de los 3 nuevos centros del CSIC reconocidos con el sello de Excelencia Severo Ochoa del @cienciagob.bsky.social en Sevilla, Barcelona y Madrid

Un intenso trabajo colectivo de cada uno de los institutos que se han retado a sí mismos superando todas las dificultades

ICMAB - Magnetic ‘microflowers’ enhance magnetic fields locally

🧲🌸 Tiny magnetic ‘microflowers’ amplify sensor performance! A team led by Anna Palau developed nickel-iron structures that locally concentrate magnetic fields, boosting sensor sensitivity by over two orders of magnitude. icmab.es/magnetic-mic... @csic.es

Happy to share the publication of Automated Research Platform for Development of Triplet–Triplet Annihilation Photon Upconversion Systems pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
in ACS Central Science

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@erc.europa.eu

The European Research Council and the European Innovation Council have adopted a joint statement.

Read it here: erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

We have two open positions to work at @icmabcsic.bsky.social!

The first one is a Postdoctoral Researcher position in Biology & Nanotechnology, to work in Liver Diseases.🧬👨‍🔬👩‍🔬

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📢 Aquest dimecres vam participar en una formació en #gestiódeconflictes a l'@icmabcsic.bsky.social, a càrrec d’Ingeborg Porcar Becker (UTCCB).

💡Una bona experiència per aprendre a identificar i gestionar conflictes de manera constructiva.

🙏 Gràcies al @csic.es, la direcció i tots els participants!

ICMAB - ICMAB researchers recognized in the 2025 Google Scholar Ranking of Spanish Women Scientists

📈Several @icmabcsic.bsky.social researchers are featured in the 2025 @googlescholar.bsky.social Ranking of Spanish #Women Scientists by @csic.es. This highlights their contributions to materials science and #OpenScience.
🔗 See more: icmab.es/icmab-resear...

This initiative invites science journalists to dive into cutting-edge research, fostering collaboration and amplifying the impact of science communication.

Learn more about this opportunity here: icmab.es/icmab-now-av....

#SciComm #Journalism #Science

ICMAB researchers 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬unveiled the role of "rattler-like" vibrations in perovskite nanocrystals. This study was featured on the cover of the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 📰✍️

More info: icmab.es/unveiling-th...

Read the article here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Today we will have a very interesting talk here at ICMAB by Mª Pau Ginebra, from UPC!

📢Biomimetic calcium phosphates: bridging nature and technology in bone regeneration
📅24 February 2025
🕛12.00 PM
📍ICMAB - Sala d'Actes Carles Miravitlles

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Avui ens han visitat els alumnes de 1er de Batxillerat de l'Escola Vedruna de Gràcia!

🔋La Karla Mena els ha parlat de la seva recerca en captació d'energia. També han fet un taller sobre conductivitat i magnetisme amb l'Ana Vila (NN) i han acabat visitant els Serveis!

Oberta la inscripció al concurs escolar de vídeos científics en català #Experimenta2025!

Podeu guanyar xecs de 500 € per material escolar, tallers experimentals, visites a museus, calculadores científiques i molt més!

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cc @comunicacioaccc.bsky.social

ICMAB - Inaugural Lecture by Dr. M. Rosa Palacín at the RACAB "The evolution of batteries"

🔋Ens fa molta il·lusió anunciar que la Prof. M. Rosa Palacín pronunciarà la seva sessió pública d’ingrés a la RACAB com a Acadèmica Electa de la Secció de Química! 🎉

📅 13 de març de 2025 | 🕕 18:00 h | 📍 RACAB, La Rambla 115, Barcelona

🔗 Més info: icmab.es/inaugural-le...

Next 13 March, M. Rosa Palacin Peiro will give an inaugural lecture at Reial Acadèmia de les Ciències i les Arts de Barcelona, marking her induction as an academic.

📣 “Les bateries: de l’empirisme a la racionalitat passant per l’impacte tecnològic”
📅 13 March 🕕 6:00 PM

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ICMAB - "Quick guide to FAIR data and open data at ICMAB", by Marc Martínez, Anna Esther Carrillo, Alejandro Santos

On Monday 17 Feb, we have 2 seminars!

The first one is at 12 PM:

"Quick guide to #FAIR data and open data at ICMAB"

👉Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reuse

by Marc Martínez, Anna Esther Carrillo, Alejandro Santos

#TechnicalSeminar

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"The Man in the White Suit"

ICMAB - Bacterial cellulose promotes plant tissue regeneration

🌱A study in Science Advances reveals that bacterial cellulose patches trigger plant tissue regeneration by activating both cytokinin & defense pathways!

By @cragenomica.bsky.social @cbgpmadrid.bsky.social @icmabcsic.bsky.social and #ColoradoStateU

🔗 Read more: icmab.es/bacterial-ce...