August 5, 2020
Nature is a role model when it comes to recycling waste. What one organism produces as waste is re-used as nourishment by others, creating a dynamic and balanced cycle that depends on all organisms to function properly. The TRIPyr project has the same vision. Uniting a force of seven partnering organisations across the Pyrenees, the […]
July 22, 2020
Photochemistry is of immense importance in the natural world: from vision to photosynthesis, life as we know it relies on the interactions between molecules and light. Using light to provide the activation energy required to start a reaction can have multiple benefits. For instance, some photochemical reactions are several orders of magnitude faster than their […]
July 21, 2020
On July 17, ICIQ’s Board of Trustees appointed Prof. Emilio Palomares as the new director of the institute, effective on September 28. Prof. Palomares will take over the leadership of ICIQ from Prof. Miquel A. Pericàs, founder and first director of ICIQ. Prof. Pericàs will remain in the institute as a group leader until he […]
July 20, 2020
Dr. Felipe Andrés Garcés, postdoctoral researcher in the Galán-Mascarós group, has won the Investiga Award from SusChem-Spain for his publication, “Direct Magnetic Enhancement Of Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation In Alkaline Media.” The publication described, for the first time, how the presence of an external magnetic field – induced by approaching a neodymium magnet to the electrolyzer – […]
July 16, 2020
Guillem Peñuelas i Haro, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Pau Ballester (ICIQ), has virtually defended his PhD thesis entitled “Towards Recognition of Polar Molecules in Water Using Aryl-extended Calix[4]pyrrole Receptors” (assigned to the Department of Analitical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 16th. The members […]
July 15, 2020
ICIQ has been accredited as a “Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence.” This is the second time the institute obtains this recognition after having received it in 2014. “This is really good news for ICIQ. The award will allow us to consolidate a research programme that shows our potential in the area of sustainable energy and […]
July 13, 2020
Alicia Martínez, PhD student under the supervision of Prof Anton Vidal (ICIQ), has virtually defended her PhD thesis entitled “The Hydroformylation Reaction: from Covalent to Supramolecular Approaches and Operando Kinetic Studies” (assigned to the Analytical and Organic Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on July 13th. The members of the examining […]