March 20, 2019
ICIQ group leaders Atsushi Urakawa and Arjan W. Kleij have been selected as Outstanding Reviewers by the editorial boards of Catalysis Science and Technology and Green Chemistry respectively. The reviewers have been chosen for their significant contribution to the journal based on the number and quality of the reports completed during the last year. Each […]
March 12, 2019
Researchers from ICIQ’s Lopez group unravel key molecular interactions involved in the electrocatalytic production of ammonia (NH3) from nitrogen (N2). The ICIQ scientists have been able to model a realistic representation of the catalyst–solvent interface at the Density Functional Theory (DFT) level to understand the role of ionic liquids in ammonia synthesis. Manuel A. Ortuño, […]
March 8, 2019
Cristina García-Morales, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Antonio M. Echavarren (ICIQ), has defended her PhD Thesis entitled “Reactivity and Characterization of Gold(I) Carbenes: Key Intermediates in Gold(I) Catalysis” (assigned to the Department of Organic and Analytical Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on March 8th at the ICIQ Auditorium. The members […]
February 22, 2019
Prof. Feliu Maseras, ICIQ group leader, has been appointed as Associate Editor of the journal ACS Catalysis. He joins a team of eighteen associate editors and will strengthen the journal’s expertise in theoretical and computational molecular catalysis. ACS Catalysis is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 2011 by the American Chemical Society. It is an […]
February 18, 2019
The CREATE project, part of the Horizon 2020 framework, has reached the two-year milestone. The 11 partnering organisations celebrated a meeting on Montpellier last January where they prepared the roadmap for the projects’ next steps. The CREATE consortium aims at improving the production of renewable energy by providing more sustainable alternatives than some of the technologies […]
February 14, 2019
La publicació, adreçada a nens i nenes, recull el contingut dels tallers del cicle La Ciència de la Xocolata, en què dones investigadores de la URV i de l’ICIQ expliquen la seva recerca amb el cacau com a element transversal “La Tina corre una mica, esquiva un bassal, puja dues escales, saluda el conserge i […]
February 13, 2019
The Catalan section of the Spanish Royal Chemical Society (RSEQ) has granted one of the ‘Josep Castells’ awards 2018 to Santiago Cañellas, postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Miquel Pericàs group who started as a PhD student in the same goup with a MINECO FPI-Severo Ochoa Grant. The Josep Castells award recognizes the two best PhD theses of the […]