Liquid Crystals&Polymers Group: CLiP group

🔉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
🔗 More info: drive.google.com/file/d/1gjWP...
@inmadivulga.bsky.social @unizar.es

🎓 ¿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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@unizar.es @ucc.unizar.es @csicdivulga.bsky.social @csicaragon.bsky.social

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
👉🏻 www.muyinteresante.com/fundacion/ca...

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
@inmadivulga.bsky.social‬
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
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

📢 MAÑANA: Seminario INMA Impulso con Blanca Serrano, de ECETOC (Bruselas)
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@unizar.es @aragoncsic.bsky.social #MCIU #AEI
@sommalliance.bsky.social

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!!!

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

Orgullosos d Conrado

El Dr. Conrado Rillo Millán, profesor de investigación del @csic.es en el @inmadivulga.bsky.social, ha ingresado en la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas, Químicas y Naturales de Zaragoza.
👏¡Enhorabuena!
La sesión de recepción fue presidida por Antonio Elipe, presidente de la Academia

Good luck Sara!!! 🤞🤞🤞🤞

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Just got back from #APME25 in beautiful Catania (Italy), where I gave an oral presentation on "Exploiting amino-yne click chemistry for stimuli-responsive materials", a key part of my PhD. Grateful for the chance to share our work and learn from top experts in the field!✨

📢 MAÑANA a las 12h: Seminario INMA INMA Impulso con Prof. Marcelo Calderón de POLYMAT & Faculty of Chemistry, University of the Basque Country, IKERBASQUE, Basque Found for Science.
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@www.unizar.es @aragoncsic.bsky.social #MCIU #AEI
@sommalliance.bsky.social

📢 Mañana Seminario INMA con Jonathan Wilker de Purdue University (Lafayette, Indiana, USA)
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@www.unizar.es @aragoncsic.bsky.social #MCIU #AEI
@sommalliance.bsky.social

Degradable Ureido‐Polycarbonate Block Copolymers with a Complex UCST Thermoresponse Amphiphilic block copolymers with degradable ureido-functionalized polycarbonate segments self-assemble into spherical micelles in water, exhibiting an intriguing upper critical solution temperature ...

🚨New article! We just published our latest research on the Degradable Ureido-Polycarbonate Block Copolymers with Complex UCST Thermoresponse. Check it out!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

👩‍🔬 @silhainsa.bsky.social en #Agora d Aragón Radio
🎙 avances publicados junto con 🧑‍🔬 Jesús del Barrio, @alejandropostigo.bsky.social @clipgroup.bsky.social usando la técnica de origami de ADN.
📻 www.cartv.es/aragonradio/...
@www.unizar.es @aragoncsic.bsky.social #MCIU #AEI
@sommalliance.bsky.social

Investigadores aragoneses estudian nuevos nanomateriales y logran avances en la química del origami de ADN Científicos del Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón lideran el trabajo de una publicación sobre origami de ADN en la prestigiosa “Journal of the American Chemical Society”

Investigadores aragoneses estudian nuevos nanomateriales y logran avances en la química del origami de ADN www.eldiario.es/1_b81f68?utm...
@www.unizar.es @aragoncsic.bsky.social