NanoESC Lab

Electrolyte effects in proton–electron transfer reactions and implications for renewable fuels and chemicals synthesis Nature Catalysis, Published online: 23 October 2025; doi:10.1038/s41929-025-01421-7The structure and properties of the electric double layer that forms at the electrode–electrolyte interface is crucial in determining the performance of electrocatalytic reactions. This Perspective puts forward and discusses three major schools of thought on electrolyte effects and electrocatalyst design.

New online! Electrolyte effects in proton–electron transfer reactions and implications for renewable fuels and chemicals synthesis

📃 NEW PAPER OUT❗

@mariaescesc.bsky.social @nanoesc.bsky.social analysed in Nature Catalysis how #electrolytes, the media where electrocatalytic reactions occur, determine the performance of renewable electricity-driven chemical transformations.

🤝 MIT & KTHuniversity
ℹ️ https://f.mtr.cool/wojhuuilbx

Free to Read: Viewpoint by @mariaescesc.bsky.social and coworkers

Why Testing Protocols Matter in Electrochemical Methane Oxidation: Insights from IrOx in Acid

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

📃 NEW PAPER❗

♻️ In their new viewpoint, published in ACS Energy Letters, Dr @silviafavero.bsky.social & ICREA Prof. @mariaescesc.bsky.social (@nanoesc.bsky.social) provide insights that could help standardise protocols for electrochemical methane-to-methanol conversion.

ℹ️ https://bit.ly/4m9qHPV

🎉 Huge congrats to Jaxiry on her review In Situ Elucidation of Reaction Mechanisms in #Electrocatalysis Using #SECM, featured on #ChemCatChem @chemistryeurope.bsky.social front cover! 👏
📖 chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Thanks Dámaso Torres for the beautiful cover art!

We were thrilled to join the SUNCAT Summer Institute 2025 at @stanford.edu on catalysis for a sustainable future! 🌍
@mariaescesc.bsky.social gave an invited lecture, and our PhD students @icn2.bsky.social
had fantastic poster presentations. A week full of inspiration, learning, and fun! 🎉

♻️ @cienciagob.bsky.social entrevistó a @mariaescesc.bsky.social, prof. ICREA, líder de @nanoesc.bsky.social y ganadora del Premio Nacional de Investigación por su trabajo puntero en electroquímica para un futuro más #sostenible.

📽️👉 https://f.mtr.cool/hjzmbdozuj

#Química #Innovación

📰 PREMIOS Y RECONOCIMIENTOS 🎖️

🎖️La Prof. ICREA @mariaescesc.bsky.social  ( @nanoesc.bsky.social  ) recibió el Premio Nacional de Investigación "María Teresa Toral" de manos del Rey Felipe VI por su trabajo en #procesoselectroquímicos y #energíalimpia

👏 ¡Enhorabuena!

ℹ️ https://bit.ly/4nPuRyD

My Green Lab green certificate received by NanoESC group, ICN2

A NanoESC group member receiving the certificate on team's behalf.

Proudly sharing that our @nanoesc.bsky.social @icn2.bsky.social is now Green Lab certified by My Green Lab! 💚. We’re cutting our footprint from compiling orders to choosing vendors with sustainable practices and many more. Sustainable chemistry,done sustainably.

😍 Great initiative with many familiar faces!
Four countries and three continents represented only from the four #NanoESC Lab members in these photos!⚡️👩🏻‍🔬
@silviafavero.bsky.social @sanchayita.bsky.social @gabrielfloriano.bsky.social

🏆 AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

🎖️ Dr @gabrielfloriano.bsky.social from the @nanoesc.bsky.social, received the 2025 Travel Award by the ISE, recognising his research in #electrochemistry & allowing him to attend the #AnnualMeeting in Germany.

👏 Congrats!

👀 Find more info here! 👉 https://bit.ly/4kljNq5

🌏 The current production of urea as a fertiliser is highly polluting.

@mariaescesc.bsky.social @gabrielfloriano.bsky.social (@nanoesc.bsky.social) analysed research needs for electrochemical production of #urea in JACS Au. The goal? A more #sustainable production process. 

ℹ️ https://bit.ly/4iZCnDY

Many thanks to #ICONIC European Innovation Council Pathfinder project @ec.europa.eu for funding this work! We celebrate that it’s our first #NanoESC publication %100 from @icn2.bsky.social! 🥳 #electrochemistry #sustainability ⚡️

Electrode–Electrolyte Engineering and In Situ Spectroscopy for Urea Electrosynthesis from Carbon Dioxide and Nitrate Co-Reduction The biogeochemical cycles of carbon and nitrogen are globally disturbed due to the intensive use of fossil fuels and fertilizers, which is reflected by the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosp...

Delighted to share our JACS Au @pubs.acs.org #openaccess perspective! We discuss the challenges & research needs on interface engineering & in-situ spectroscopy for electrochemical C-N coupling toward sustainable urea synthesis. Big congrats @gabrielfloriano.bsky.social!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

📰 EXCITING NEWS❗

💡 Imagine meeting #NobelPrize winners?

🎖️ Dr Silvia Favero (@nanoesc.bsky.social) & Jung Yu have been selected by the Lindau Nobel Laureate Foundation to attend this year's meeting, focusing on #Chemistry.

👏 Congratulations! We're proud of you both!

#ScientificExcellence

Interested in the role of #electrolyte effects in #electrocatalysis? Check out our latest ChemRxiv preprint!
A wonderful collaboration with Prof. Yang Shao-Horn @mitofficial.bsky.social led by Paula Sebastián and Antonia Herzog. We hope you enjoy reading it!
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

🗞️ NEW UPDATE❗

🤝 ICREA Prof. @mariaescesc.bsky.social, @nanoesc.bsky.social Group Leader, has joined the @csic.es Scientific Advisory Committee, made up of experts from different disciplines, including @eloisadelpino.bsky.social.

More ℹ️ here! 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/rabdjjciry

#GreenTransition

Today we had our annual #calçotada!! Amazing food and so much fun! 😍

Congrats everyone!!
We’re very proud of our own Silvia @silviafavero.bsky.social, who was awarded with an ICN2 Women Talent Postdoc Grant! Well deserved!!
#WomenInSTEM @icn2.bsky.social

📸 New group photo!
Left to right: @gabrielfloriano.bsky.social, Sebastián, Eloi, Jaxiry, Bjarke, Niccolò, @mariaescesc.bsky.social, Camilo, Sanchayita, Grega, Nathalie, Gabriele, @manilaov.bsky.social, Vasiliki and @silviafavero.bsky.social.
@icn2.bsky.social
#dreamteam #electrochemistry 😍⚡️

Fue un honor recibir el Premio Fundación Real Academia de Ciencias @raciencias.bsky.social al Joven Talento Científico Femenino en la categoría de Física y Química en un #11f muy especial, acompañada de S.M. la Reina Letizia, premiadas, autoridades, científicos excelentes y mis padres.
(Abro hilo)

We are thrilled to share that two amazing researchers have been awarded prestigious #MSCA 2024 fellowships to carry out their research in our group at @icn2.bsky.social! Huge congrats to @silviafavero.bsky.social and Abigail Seddon! We look forward to exciting science together in the coming years!

A visual announcing the results of the 2024 call for MSCA (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) Postdoctoral Fellowships. It highlights 1,696 selected proposals and a €417 million budget. The European Commission and MSCA logos are included, along with scientific-themed visuals.

The 2024 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship call results are in.

With a budget of €417 million, we are funding nearly 1,700 researchers from 🇪🇺 and beyond.

They will strengthen EU research in key areas such as social inclusion, AI, and cancer research ↓

europa.eu/!BmWRkh

Entrega de los Premios al Joven Talento Científico Femenino 👏
Ivana Gasullá @upv.es
Ana Primo Ramos @icmat.es
María Escudero Escribano @icn2.bsky.social
Ainhoa Magrach @#bc3research

rac.es/noticias/354/

📰 PREMIOS Y RECONOCIMIENTOS 🎖️

🏆 La catedrática @mariaescesc.bsky.social, líder de @nanoesc.bsky.social, ha recibido el 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐨 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐨́𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐚 𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥 𝐉𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐂𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢́𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐨 𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐨 en “Física, Química y Ciencias Afines”.

👏 Enhorabuena, María!

#11Feb #MujeresyCiencia

🗣️María Escudero-Escribano (@MariaEscEsc) shows her lastest research on electrocatalysis for renewable energy applications including her ERC Consolidator Project #ATOMISTIC on methane to methanol conversion at #ECAT25 @nanoGe_Conf

🔗 https://www.nanoge.org/ECAT25/home

Portada Revista Grada. “María Escudero Escribano. Ingeniera química y referente internacional en electroquímica y sostenibilidad”

Muchas gracias por esta entrevista tan completa #revistagrada
#sostenibilidad

www.grada.es/maria-escude...

Delighted to be back at ICN2 @mariaescesc.bsky.social one year on from my last visit. Maria has amassed an exceptionally talented team (some new faces, some old friends), augmented by state-of the-art equipment! ¡Gracias por la invitación!

Pictures of university of Waterloo and Calgary, Canada

After~5 transformative years in Canada's snowy❄️ winters,Tim’s ☕ runs and an amazing research👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 community @uofwaterloo.bsky.social & @ucalgary.bsky.social that shaped me further as a researcher, it’s time to say goodbye. I will start my position as a Marie Curie Fellow at ICN2 Barcelona🇪🇸 from 2025.

Happy Holidays! 🎄
Here’s to an exciting 2025 full of science, good health and happiness!