SuNS: Supra and Nanostructured Systems Group

Research Lines

NEWS!

05/05/2023

We are back!!! And very happy to announce that our PhD student Ariadna Lázaro is now Dr. Lázaro. Congrats!!! Great presentation and discussion! Thanks also to the members of the jury: Profs. Luisa De Cola, Prof. Antonio Frontera and Prof. Mª Carmen Nicasio. Great discussion and perfect atmosphere. Thanks a lot!

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22/11/2022

Nice collaboration with Profs. Antonio Frontera and João Carlos Lima! Thanks Dr. Mario Inclán por the help in the cover design. Congrats also to Andrea for the great work!

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21/12/2021

New cover from our work! This time on Inorganic Chemistry. Designed by Dr. Andrea Pinto! I have artists not only in the lab, also designing! :)

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05/11/2021

Congrats Dr. Pinto! Very proud of you and your work. Great discussion and PhD defense. Good luck and hopefully you can come back soon! And thanks to the members of the jury: Profs. Tomás R. Belderrain, João Carlos Lima and Montserrat Ferrer.

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10/10/2021

New front cover from our group! Designed by our PhD student Araceli de Aquino. We do more than chemistry in the lab! Nice design!

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01/10/2021

Welcome César Patricio Analuiza, our new master student!

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16/06/2021

After such a long period with virtual meetings and trying to go ahead with research, we are happy to share this good new:

If you are finishing the Degree in Chemistry and you would like to do a Master at the Faculty of Chemistry - UB, read this: Supramolecular, Organometallic and Luminescent systems are waiting for you!

http://geqo.es/ayudas-destinadas-a-facilitar-la-incorporacion-de-estudiantes-a-los-grupos-de-investigacion-del-geqo/

Fellowships for Master Students in our group!

If you are interested, contact us!

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15/09/2020

Very happy to say that Araceli de Aquino stays with us to start the PhD! Sure that you will have great success!

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12/06/2020

Our project has been selected for funding in the Spanish National Call. Just published! Now it's time to work and demonstrate that we really deserve it!

It seems that post-covid is not so bad for us...:) let's hope we can continue in this way!

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9/06/2020

Coming back to the lab after covid-19...full of energy and with a lot of projects in progress!

And...being accepted to take part of the NECTAR COST Action. Great news!

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30/01/2020

All the group attended the III International Symposium on chemistry of group 11elements in Caparica.

University of Barcelona was extensively present in invited, oral and flash presentations.

High level contributions and speakers! Nice workshop and nice days shared with friends!

caparica

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12/11/2019

Our contribution to the new periodic table song in Chemistry World (@ChemistryWorld). Gold and Platinum were not available so we went to silver, as closer element :)

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14/10/2019

And more good news! A new PhD student joining our group: Guillermo Romo coming from Mexico. Gold and Platinum are waiting for you!

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1/10/2019

We continue welcoming people in our group. Valentina Iannace comes from Rome for 6 months. It will be a great opportunity to follow up with our collaboration with Prof. Antonella Dalla Cort.

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20/09/2019

We are now on twitter! Follow as at @GroupSuns

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01/07/2019

New local people! :) Welcome Araceli! We are sure you will have a great contribution in gold chemistry.

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01/06/19

Now...from Lithuania! Welcome Matas and Vita! You wish you a nice stage in our group in Barcelona

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25/04/2019

Today is the turn of Carla Cunha from Coimbra! We are becoming a really international group! Welcome and happy Liberty day of Portugal!

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1/04/2019

Welcoming Camille Jubert in her 4 months stage with our group. We hope you can enjoy our chemistry and our city!

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1/03/2019

Welcome Mattia! Our new postdoctoral researcher! Let's hope for really nice results during this period in our group and hopefully you can enjoy also Barcelona.

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Special Issue "Advances in Supramolecular Chemistry" in Molecules journal (Impact Factor 2017: 3.268)..

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2019

Guest Editor: Laura Rodríguez

Contributions are welcome!

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Special Issue "Gold Complexes" in Inorganics, open access journal.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2019

Guest Editors: Laura Rodríguez (Universitat de Barcelona) and João Carlos Lima (Univ. Nova de Lisboa)

Contributions are welcome!

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26/09/2018

New Master Studient: welcome Ona!

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17/09/2018

New PhD member of the group in collaboration with Prof. Margarita Crespo: Ariadna Lázaro! Great news!

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17/09/2019

Marian Rosental from Univ. Heidelberg starts a 3 months research period in our group. Welcome! And hope you enjoy!

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04/09/2018

Nice cover from our recent work about biological activity of gold(I) complexes at Chemistry- A European Journal and cover profile.

Congratulations to all authors and let's continue in this way doing such nice chemistry!

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27/07/2018

Congratulations to Dr. Angurell for getting the permanent position! :)

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06/07/2018

Congratulations to Dr. Francisco Javier Caparrós for his PhD defense! The highest academic degree!

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06/06/2018

And they tell me that they work very hard....it is clearly seen here.....

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Cover art in ChemCatChem. Nice work: single atoms vs clusters!

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18/05/2018

Good luck, Giulia! And come back soon to visit us! A great pleasure to host you here during this month.

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09/02/2018

Congrats Andrea for the FI PhD fellowship! You really deserve it! It will be a nice period for sure in our lab!

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Cover art in Inorganic Chemistry. It will be published on February 2018

Thanks to Dr. Eugenio Vázquez who was very kind to do this cover art for us.

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Congratulations to Noora Svahn!! Her master thesis was selected for the Finish Chemistry Society award! Good luck!

It was a nice work and you deserve this recognition.

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Our article "Reversible Self-Assembly of Water-Soluble Gold(I) Complexes" has been selected by Inorganic Chemistry Editors for difussion of our research (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02343) and it has been also selected for cover page in the next issue of February 2018. Nice recognition of our work!

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New project funded in Alba! Spaghetti team comes back to attack with our aggregates' experience! :)

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Oussama Kheireedine Nehar will spend a couple of months in our group. Welcome and good work!

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Álex Llanos starts the master with us. Welcome and... nice and luminescent project!

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Elisabet Aguiló defended the PhD on April, 28th. Congratulations Dr. Aguiló! Nice work, nice period together!

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Welcome Richard! He will join our group for some months. Thanks for coming and choosing our group. We wish you a nice period in our group and in Barcelona!

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry - 2016 went to....Supramolecular Chemists! Great! Molecular machines, nano and supramolecular structures.

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New Project at Laser Lab Europe! A new chance for studying the luminescent properties of our supramolecular structures....nice! Spaghetti team continues.....:)

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We are organizing the II Workshop on 11 Group Elements.

For further details go to: www.qi.ub.edu/g11workshop

We wait for seeing you next January 2017!

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We attended the ICREA Nanocontainers Conference organized by Prof. Pau Ballester. Really top ten science!