Liquid Crystals and Polymers Group: CLiP group

📢 Nuestra compañera Silvia del Moral defenderá su Tesis Doctoral el viernes 21 de noviembre a las 11:00 h, en la Sala de Grados de la Facultad de Ciencias. La tesis lleva por título: "New approaches to chiral soft materials through supramolecular chemistry and liquid crystals". Suerte, Silvia! 👏🎓

Last week, our researchers Jesús del Barrio, Alexandre Lancelot, María Sofía Navarrete, and María Val-Carreres participated in the 4th Conexión Nanomedicina Assembly held in Madrid, where they had the opportunity to share knowledge with specialists from various institutes. Great work! 👏

Light‐Mediated Supramolecular Functionalization of Polymerization‐Induced Self‐Assembled Micelles A one-pot, light-controlled approach to “switch on” Polymerization-Induced Self-Assembly (PISA) micelles with a novel azo-photoswitch is introduced. A brief UV pulse converts the photoswitch to its p...

📢 New publication alert! Together with the University of Florence, we developed light-responsive polymeric nanocarriers whose cargo release can be precisely controlled by light, advancing the design of new drug delivery systems!
Check it out in open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Un año más, ayer el Grupo CLiP salió a correr 6,28 km (2𝜋) por la ciencia 🧪🏃‍♀️ Enhorabuena a todos nuestros participantes, especialmente a Almudena, Mauricio y Javier por el 3er puesto en la categoría mixta👏 Nos vemos el año que viene! #yocorroporlaciencia

An amino-yne click chemistry approach for multi-responsive liquid crystal elastomer actuators - Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón Los investigadores del Grupo de Cristales Líquidos y Polímeros, del Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón (INMA), instituto mixto CSIC-UNIZAR, en colaboración con la Universidad de Florencia...

@clipgroup.bsky.social del INMA, junto a la Univ. de Florencia, ha desarrollado una nueva estrategia “click” para fabricar actuadores de elastómeros de cristal líquido (LCEs) de forma rápida y eficiente.
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🚨 Excited to share our new article published in Small!
We use spontaneous amino-yne click chemistry to create multi-responsive Liquid Crystal Elastomer actuators, a step toward next-generation soft robots.
Check it out open access 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🎓 ¡Enhorabuena al ya Dr. Javier Martín Martín! El pasado viernes defendió con éxito su tesis doctoral "Tailoring degradable amphiphilic block copolymers for thermoresponsive self-assemblies in aqueous media", bajo la dirección de la Dra. Milagros Piñol y el Dr. Víctor Sebastián. Felicidades, Javier!

📢🎓 Este viernes 17 de octubre, nuestro compañero Javier Martín defiende su tesis doctoral: "Tailoring degradable amphiphilic block copolymers for thermoresponsive self-assemblies in aqueous media". Será en la Sala de Grados de la Facultad de Ciencias a las 11:30 h!

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Algunas fotos del pasado viernes, cuando nuestro compañero Alejandro Postigo defendió con éxito su tesis doctoral. Enhorabuena Alejandro!! 👏✨

Shaping Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks: From Molecular Design and Processing to Multifunctional Materials Liquid crystal polymer networks (LCNs) combine liquid crystal order with polymer robustness to yield programmable soft materials that respond to external stimuli. This review outlines how molecular d....

Exciting news! 🎉 Our review article on Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks has just been accepted in Advanced Materials Technologies! @wiley.com

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Este viernes 19 de septiembre a las 11:15 h, nuestro compañero Alejandro Postigo Gómez defiende su tesis doctoral en la Biblioteca María Moliner, titulada "Therapeutic Delivery Applications and Functionalisation Strategies of DNA Nanostructures" ¡Mucha suerte, Alejandro! 👏🎓 @inmadivulga.bsky.social

🔉Open PhD position available at INMA (University of Zaragoza, Spain)! Join our project on stimuli-responsive ultrathin hybrid membranes based on MOFs & liquid crystals for efficient CO₂ capture
🗓️ Deadline: 31/08/25
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🎓 ¿Has hecho tu TFG o TFM en química? La @rseq-quimica.bsky.social de Aragón convoca los Premios 2025!

🧪 Participa hasta el 26/10/2025

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Retos actuales en la síntesis de nuevos materiales orgánicos En colaboración con el CSIC. Desde dispositivos flexibles hasta soluciones sostenibles, los materiales orgánicos se han convertido en protagonistas de una revolución científica que busca unir innovaci...

♻️Retos actuales en la síntesis de nuevos materiales orgánicos. Teresa Sierra y Luis Oriol, investigadores del @inmadivulga.bsky.social, escriben en la sección 'La ciencia responde' de @muyinteresante.com CC @csic.es
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Nuestro compañero, el Dr. Alberto Concellón, ha sido galardonado con el Premio Inmagina, otorgado por la Cátedra SAMCA de Nanotecnología. Enhorabuena Alberto!🌟👏

Reversible Phase Transitions of Anionic and Cationic Surfactant Mixtures Drive Shape Morphing Droplets A light-controlled, reversible phase transition of ionic surfactant assemblies, coupled with dynamic partitioning between bulk phases and interfaces, induces rapid, and order-of-magnitude changes in ...

📢 Our new work is out in #AdvancedMaterials @wiley.com! Light-controlled droplet actuation in seconds⚡
In collaboration with @mpici.bsky.social
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advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Unveiling Adenine H-bonded Hexads: Hierarchical Self-Assembly for Helical Columnar Functional Materials This manuscript reports on an unusual self-assembly of small adenine-based molecules leading to complex, functional systems. Molecules feature an adenine nucleobase substituted at the N9 position with a triarylamine unit through a flexible spacer. Hydrogen bonding interactions prompt the formation of unprecedented adenine hexameric rosettes, which organize in dimers and then into helical columnar assemblies exhibiting hexagonal columnar liquid crystal phases, even with nonchiral molecules. Theoretical calculations including geometry optimization and prediction of vibrational modes have provided essential insight into the configuration of hydrogen bonds between adenine units to form stable hexads, and experimental and simulated X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns are consistent with the unique helical self-assembly. Furthermore, molecular design including chirality in the flexible spacer and triarylamine electron-donor units steers these nanostructured materials toward functionalities related to the control of supramolecular chirality and semiconductivity. This is confirmed by thin film circular dichroism measurements for chirality and the space charge-limited current method for hole transport.

🚨 Our latest paper is out in JACS Au! Thrilled to share this great collaboration with Dr. Amparo Navarro and team: Unveiling Adenine H-bonded Hexads: Hierarchical Self-Assembly for Helical Columnar Functional Materials pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Halogen-bonded ionic liquid crystals: supramolecular organization and ionic transport Ionic liquid crystals (ILCs) are emerging materials that combine the anisotropic self-assembly of liquid crystals with the ionic conductivity of ionic liquids, making them promising candidates for ele...

🚨New article in @jmaterchem.rsc.org We explore halogen-bonded ionic LCs with supramolecular order & ion transport. Check it out! @inmadivulga.bsky.social
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📢 MAÑANA: Seminario INMA Impulso con Blanca Serrano, de ECETOC (Bruselas)
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Catechol-substituted siderophore colistin exhibits superior antimicrobial activity than its unmodified polypeptide counterpart - BMC Chemistry Catechol moieties have been covalently coupled to the last-resort polypeptide antibiotic colistin via esterification and amidation reactions, inspired by the superior antimicrobial action of cefideroc...

📢Just published! Check in open access our latest publication in collaboration with M. Arruebo’s team! We report a catechol-functionalized colistin with enhanced antimicrobial activity compared to its unmodified counterpart👩‍🔬💊 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Emotiva jornada científica en homenaje a Carmen Mijangos. Apasionada defensora del papel de Manuel en la Ciencia y de los polímeros, a los que ha dedicado su excelente carrera investigadora. Y sigue… Bravo Carmen!

Grateful to represent @www.unizar.es in the #3MinuteThesis final by UNITA! Condensing 4 years of PhD into 3 mins was wild, but I tried to show that click chemistry can be (almost!) as easy as LEGO🧪🧱 Thanks to all participants for the fun atmosphere, and as always to my supervisors for the support!

Dr. Raquel Giménez also showed today how supramolecular chirality and semiconductivity can be addressed through adenine-based helical columnar superstructures!

Our amazing postdoc Dr. Aleksandra Masulovic just shared her latest work on ionic and zwitterionic bent-core liquid crystals based on pyridine scaffolds 🧪✨ Brilliant as always, Aki!

The CLiP group is taking part in the 17th European Conference on Liquid Crystals #ECLC2025! Dr. Alberto Concellón (@aconcellon.bsky.social) is the first of our team to present, opening the event with his exciting work on LC emulsions for sensing, optics and 3D printing👏

Now in Open Access!!

Y gracias a @inmadivulga.bsky.social por su apoyo👍👍👍👍👍

Muy orgullosos de nuestra Ph student @sarabesc.bsky.social de @inmadivulga.bsky.social que ha sido finalista del certamen de l alianza europea UNITA “My 3 minutes PhD thesis” en el que participa @www.unizar.es (aunque sea misión imposible encontrar difusión en iUNIZAR) Bravo Sara 👏👏👏👏👏

It was great to visit Zaragoza to share the results of our research with @clipgroup.bsky.social @inmadivulga.bsky.social @ucc.unizar.es @bionanosurf
Thank you all for the great hospitality, specially Luis Oriol, who organized everything! Looking forward to visit you again 😄

Many thanks Marcelo for your visit, your scientific advices and your amazing and inspiring seminar!!!