April 3, 2020
In 2013, researchers from the former ICIQ Urakawa group (now based at Technische Universiteit Delft) reported a new method for the one-step conversion of CO2 to methanol. The work, published in the Journal of Catalysis and highlighted in Science, describes a continuous flow process for close-to-quantitative one-pass hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol where conventional and […]
March 31, 2020
Prof. Rubén Martín, ICIQ group leader and ICREA professor, has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant to develop the project NOVOFLAT: “Escaping from Flatland by ‘de novo’ Catalytic Decarboxylation Techniques.” With a 2,5M € budget and 5-year scope, the project aims at creating a new and general method to forge saturated carbon-carbon […]
March 30, 2020
ICIQ group leader, Dr. Marcos García Suero has been recognized with the ‘Young Investigator 2020’ Prize, awarded annually by Lilly and the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ). This award distinguishes young Spanish promises under the age of 40 for the excellency of their scientific research and their professional projection. The award-winning work focuses on […]
March 25, 2020
ICIQ group leader and ICREA Professor Rubén Martín has won the “2019 Organic Letters Outstanding Publication of the Year Award” from the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry and Organic Letters. The Award is given to scientists who published, in the previous year, an outstanding letter demonstrating both creativity and impact in the field of organic […]
March 24, 2020
Researchers from the Ballester group, in collaboration with the Rebek group from The Scripps Research Institute and Shanghai University, and the Cohen group from Tel Aviv University, and the help provided by the members of the ICIQ NMR unit, have used diffusion-ordered NMR spectroscopy (DOSY), to characterise water-soluble bis-formamide caviplexes and dive into their kinetic […]
March 17, 2020
The entire ICIQ community mourns the loss of a colleague and a friend, Kilian Muñiz. Our thoughts are with his family and with those who worked closely with him. “I’m deeply saddened by the loss of Kilian. The scientific community loses a great scientist and a friend, always eager to talk about good wines and […]
March 16, 2020
Last week, research centres from all Catalonia gathered for the kick-off meeting of BASE3D, a company consortium that will enhance R&D in the emerging field of 3D printing. Spearheaded by CIM-UPC, an entity affiliated to the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, the consortium presented their strategy, goals and work lines to leading research groups in additive […]