The workshop “Materials for Better Defense” will take place on December 5, featuring cutting-edge topics such as advanced battery technologies for vehicles and lightweight aircraft, the latest advancements in material characterization, and the performance of steel under extreme
Congratulations to Raúl de Armas Rodríguez on successfully completing his first-year assessment on October 14. His research, titled Computational Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Inorganic Nanowire Growth, will begin with an introduction to the fundamental concepts essential for understanding the
Our PhD student, Rafael Tomey, presented his cutting-edge research at the EMRS 2024 Fall Meeting, held from September 16 to 19 at the University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland. The presented work is titled "On 100% Pure Silicon Nanowire (Si NW) Electrodes as High-Performance Anodes for
From September 2 to September 6, 2024, two PhD students, Elena Sánchez-Ahijón and Rafael Tomey, along with Dr. Zahid Ali Zafar, a postdoctoral researcher, represented our research group at the XXX International Summer School "Nicolás Cabrera" on Energy Storage Systems to Face the Climate Challenge:
Dr. David Tilve Martínez delivered an invited talk on "Nanostructured Networks to Overcome the Limits of Traditional Materials: Multiscale Studies and Industrialisation Progress" on behalf of our group at the prestigious European-Korean Conference on Science and Technology, 2024. His presentation
We are thrilled to announce the publication of three cutting-edge papers from our team: 1️⃣ Dr. David Tilve explores a novel method for producing silicon nanowire (SiNW) dispersions, enabling the creation of macroscopic materials like transparent films and sheets. This scalable technique offers
Our Ph.D. students Ana de Isidro, Shegufta Tahsin, and Clarissa Giudicci attended the NT24 conference in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. from June 23-28, 2024. Our group leader, Dr. Juan José Vilatela, was also invited to give a symposium, and our post-doctoral researcher Dr. David Tilve presented a
Our researchers studied the role of sulphur in controlling CNT morphology and aggregation by synthesising CNTs under a wide range of S/C ratios (0.001 to 5 wt.%) and determining their diameter and length distributions, number concentration and form of aggregation. The CNTs produced range from
Our Ph.D. student Nabil attended the European Aerosol Conference 2023 in Málaga, Spain from September 3-8, 2023. The conference is annually organized by European Aerosol Assembly (EAA) and was held at "Palacio de Ferias y Congresos" of Malaga. Nabil gave an oral presentation regarding his recent
Our Ph.D. student, Isabel, and our post-doc, Miguel, attended the FEMS Euromat 23 congress in Goethe University in Frankfurt from September 3-7, 2023. There, they joined different experts and researchers with academic and industrial backgrounds as them to absorb the latest advancements in
Our Ph.D. student on electrochemistry Elena attended the 74th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistr organized by the members of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) in Lyon, France from September 3-8, 2023. The meeting was held at "Centre de Congrès de Lyon"
MNG postdoctoral research associate Dr. Miguel Vázquez Pufleau recently published his work on generating nanoparticle catalysts using the spark discharge method. His co-authors were Andrew Johnston and Dr. Juan José Vilatela. You can read the PDF article (in Spanish) attached below, as well as
We were honored to host our collaborator Dr. Micah Green on May 11-12, 2023. Dr. Green is a professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University, where he leads a group on nanomaterials processing for multifunctional composites and films. He
Our Ph.D. student Nabil attended the Workshop on Aerogels Characterization and Modelling organized by the AERoGELS COST Action at the University of Debrecen in Debrecen, Hungary from March 29-31, 2023. Nabil gave an oral presentation about his current work, titled “Measuring the conditions of
Last week, several of our group members attended SAXS Excites, the International SAXS Symposium 2023, on April 4 - 5, 2023, at Graz University of Technology in Graz, Austria. Senior research associate Dr. Afshin Pendashteh presented his work on using X-ray scattering to track density
Earlier this month, MNG postdoctoral research associate Dr. Miguel Vázquez Pufleau presented his recent work on catalyst generation and 1D nanomaterial synthesis at the 11th International Aerosol Conference (IAC 2022), which took place in Athens, Greece on 4-9 Sept. 2022. His co-authors were
