Institut de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (IN2UB): Enviaments recents
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Activity Report 2014
The Institut de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia de la Universitat de Barcelona (IN2UB) presents the 2014 Annual Report. This report completes the mandate of Dr. Amilcar Labarta who has been the Director of the Institute ...
Using room temperature Phosphorescence of Gold(I) complexes for PAHs sensing
The synthesis of two new phosphane-gold(I)-napthalimide complexes has been performed and characterized. The compounds present luminescent properties with denoted room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) induced by the proximity ...
Fully Inkjet-Printed Green-Emitting PEDOT:PSS/NiO/Colloidal CsPbBr3/SnO2 Perovskite Light-Emitting Diode on Rigid and Flexible Substrates
After establishing themselves as promising active materials in the field of solar cells, halide perovskites are currently being explored for fabrication of low-cost, easily processable, and highly efficient light-emitting ...
Controlled formation of shape structures via electrochemical surface modification of Cu(111)
Electrochemical oxidation-reduction processes on copper electrodes and in the presence of different electrolyte anions have been widely explored for the preparation of tailor-made catalysts. Nevertheless, the effect of the ...
Solid-state organization of n-type carbazole-based semiconductors for organic thin-film transistors
The development of new organic semiconductors has been mainly led by the search for new π-conjugated cores, but recently the use of flexible side chains is attracting more and more attention to control the molecular packing ...
Comparative of machine learning classification strategies for electron energy loss spectroscopy: Support vector machines and artificial neural networks
Machine Learning (ML) strategies applied to Scanning and conventional Transmission Electron Microscopy have become a valuable tool for analyzing the large volumes of data generated by various S/TEM techniques. In this work, ...
Novel strategies enhancing endodontic disinfection: antibacterial biodegradable calcium hydroxide nanoparticles in an ex vivo model
<span style="color:rgb( 33 , 33 , 33 )">Due to the high failure rates associated to endodontic disinfection, this study aimed to investigate the antibacterial properties of poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) nanoparticles ...
Nature Inspired Manganese(III)-Calcium Complexes: Towards Synthetic Models for the WOC of PSII
For some time, the presence of high oxidation state Mn ions and Ca(II) in the active center of Photosystem II has been known. However, coordination complexes that combine both Mn(III) and Ca(II) have been difficult to ...
Chalcone-based fluorescent chemosensors as new tools for detecting Cu2+ ions
The design and full characterization of new fluorescent chemosensors for Cu2+ is herein presented. The structure of the sensors is based on a chalcone backbone as the chromophoric unit, with di-(2-picolyl)amine (DPA) as a ...
Unraveling the magnetic properties of NiO nanoparticles: From synthesis to nanostructure
NiO nanoparticles have garnered significant interest due to their diverse applications and unique properties, which differ markedly from their bulk counterparts. NiO nanoparticles are p-type semiconductors with a wide ...
Surface modification of silicon nanowires via drop-casting for high-performance Li-ion battery electrodes: SiNWs decorated with molybdenum oxide nanoparticles
The functionalization of molybdenum oxide (MoO3) nanoparticles is presented as a method to significantlyenhance the cycling stability of lithium-ion battery (LIB) anodes based on silicon nanowire (SiNW) arrays.Transition-metal ...
Polysiloxane Side-Chain Azobenzene-Containing Liquid Single Crystal Elastomers for Photo-Active Artificial
Liquid crystals (LCs) are unique materials with amazing properties and uses. Since their discovery in 1889 by F. Reinitzer1, they have experienced an explosive growth because of their successful application in a wide ...
A Ni11 coordination cluster from the use of the di-2-pyridyl ketone/acetate ligand combination: synthetic, structural and magnetic studies
The combined use of di-2-pyridyl ketone, (py)2CO, and acetates (MeCO2−) in nickel(II) chemistry in H2O-MeCN under basic conditions (Et3N) afforded the coordination cluster [Ni11(OH)6(O2CMe)12{(py)2C(OH)(O)}4(H2O)2] (1) in ...
Activity Report 2015-16
The Activity Report 2015-2016 of the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology of the University of Barcelona (IN2UB). During these two past years the Board of Directors pushed several actions in order to improve the ...
Caboxylate-Decorated Aggregation of Octanuclear Co4Ln4(Ln = Dy, Ho, Yb) Complexes from Ligand-Controlled Hydrolysis: Synthesis, Structures, and Magnetic Properties
One-pot reactions of an asymmetric carboxy-ether-phenol based Schiff base H2L (2-((2-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzylidene)amino)benzoic acid) with selected Ln(NO3)3·nH2O and [Co2(μ-OH2)(O2CCMe3)4(HO2CCMe3)4] (Co2-Piv) in basic ...
A Dissymmetric [Gd2] Coordination Molecular Dimer Hosting six Addressable Spin Qubits
Artificial magnetic molecules can host several spin qubits, which could then implement small-scale algorithms. In order to become of practical use, such molecular spin processors need to increase the available computational ...
Broadening the scope of high structural dimensionality nanomaterials using pyridine-based curcuminoids
We present a new heteroditopic ligand (3pyCCMoid) that contains the typical skeleton of a curcuminoid (CCMoid) decorated with two 3-pyridyl groups. The coordination of 3pyCCMoid with ZnII centres results in a set of novel ...
Polypurine reverse hoogsteen hairpins as a therapeutic tool for SARS-CoV-2 infection
Although the COVID-19 pandemic was declared no longer a global emergency by the World Health Organization in May 2023, SARS-CoV-2 is still infecting people across the world. Many therapeutic oligonucleotides such as ASOs, ...
Rhodium and ruthenium complexes of methylene-bridged, P-stereogenic, unsymmetrical diphosphanes
Enantiopure P-stereogenic methylphosphane-boranes (SP)-P(BH3)PhArMe (ArMe; Ar = 1-naphthyl (NpMe), and 2-biphenylyl (BiphMe)) have been used to prepare diphosphanes of the type ArPhPCH2PR2 (R = Ph, iPr or tBu; ArR). The ...
