Mariona Coll visited last week the Secondary school IES La Plana, in Vic, within the program “A researcher in your classroom“.
One of the program goals is that the students discover Materials Science, but also to bring closer scientists to students and encourage scientific vocations.
Since 2009, ICMAB researchers have visited many different Secondary schools and have always received very positive feedbacks.
El Consejo Europeo de Investigación (ERC, por sus siglas en inglés) cumplió 10 años el 24 de marzo de 2017. A lo largo de esta década de vida, se ha financiado a unos 7.000 investigadores, permitiendo la publicación de cerca de 100.000 artículos en revistas científicas internacionales. En España, cerca de 400 investigadores han recibido un total de 650 millones de euros y el Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) destaca por ser la institución española con mayor número de ayudas, por delante de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra, el Instituto de Ciencias Fotónicas, la Universidad de Barcelona y el Centro de Regulación Genómica. Entre los más de 400 proyectos que han obtenido una ayuda del Consejo Europeo de Investigación en España, más de un centenar han recaído en el CSIC. De éstas, nueve corresponden al ICMAB: 4 Consolidator Grants, 3 Starting Grants, 1 Advanced Grant (Prof. T. Puig) y 1 Proof of Concept.
Xavier Granados García es Científico Titular del CSIC y miembro del Departamento de Materiales Superconductores y Nanoestructuración a Gran Escala. Desde 1987, ha colaborado con el grupo de Superconductividad en la Universidad de Barcelona y posteriormente en el Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona desde su fundación, contribuyendo en el desarrollo de actividades de I+D+i en el campo de la Superconductividad y sus Aplicaciones en el Área “Large Scale” de sistemas electrotécnicos, liderando las actividades en este área dentro del grupo de Investigación.
Es miembro de la Sociedad Catalana de Física, de la European Society of Applied Superconductivity, del Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, de la Cryogenic Society of America, del High Temperature Superconductors Modelling Workgroup, es representante del CSIC en el JP Energy Sorage de la European Energy Research Aliance y coordinandor del subprograma Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage. Ha participado en más de 30 Proyectos competitivos y contratos con empresas y ha contribuido en más de 150 publicaciones.
Barcelona, 15th-17th February 2017
In the frame of EUROTAPES and EuCARD-2 EU projects, ICMAB-CSIC (Xavier Obradors – EUROTAPES Coordinator) and CERN (Lucio Rossi CERN – EuCARD2-WP10 Coordinator) have co-organized the the 4th Workshop on Accelerator Magnets in HTS (WAMHTS-4 ).
On 15th afternoon, during the common session of “EUROTAPES and EuCARD-2”, Prof. Xavier Obradors gave a talk entittled “Progress in the development of coated conductors in Europe” and Prof. Teresa Puig talk about “Progress in the development of nanostructured coated conductors through chemical processes (CSD)”.
During the workshop different partners from both consortiums explained their last developments realized on HTS conductors and different conductor industries (BRUKER, OXOLUTIA, THEVA, DNANO, SUPERPOWER, FUJIKURA, SUPEROX, SUNAM) presented their last results.
Barcelona, 13th-15th February 2017
During these days we have organized the final meeting of EUROTAPES project (coordinated by Prof. Xavier Obradors) at Casa de la Convalescència at Barcelona. During the meeting it has been summarized all the progress done during these 4 years and a half within the consortium. A great success!
Thank you to all the partners! A big enthusiastic and successful team!
EL PERIÓDICO, DOMINGO, 12 DE FEBRERO DEL 2017 MICHELE CATANZARO
El cambio primordial en un molino superconductor está en el generador. “En lugar de cobre y hierro en su interior hay cintas de segunda generación, unos filamentos superconductores”, explica Xavier Obradors, director del Icmab. No solo los filamentos no pierden energía, sino que tampoco se calientan, por lo que no se necesita la maquinaria de enfriamiento que precisan los metales tradicionales.
Es cierto que hay que enfriarlos para que sean superconductores, pero los investigadores han diseñado un sistema eficiente que implica menos energía.
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Albert Queraltó*, María de la Mata, Jordi Arbiol, Ruben Hühne∥, Xavier Obradors, and Teresa Puig. Cryst. Growth Des., 2017, 17 (2), pp 504–516. DOI: 10.1021/acs.cgd.6b01358
Self-assembling approaches based on chemical solution deposition (CSD) are ideal methods for the cost-effective production of epitaxial nanostructures with high throughput. Therefore, an in-depth investigation of the nucleation and coarsening processes involved in the self-assembly of nanostructures is mandatory to achieve a good control over nanostructure shape, dimensions, and orientation. Heteroepitaxial Ce0.9Gd0.1O2-y (CGO) is an ideal model system to unveil the underlying nanostructure development mechanisms in addition to their promising properties for catalysis, gas sensors, and ionic conductivity. Rapid thermal annealing furnaces have been used to study separately the thermodynamic and kinetic nucleation and coarsening mechanisms of self-assembled CGO isotropic and anisotropic nanostructures based on strain-engineering and surface energies control. Different CGO nanoislands are obtained: isotropic (001)CGO nanodots are grown on (001)-oriented Y2O3:ZrO2 (YSZ) and LaAlO3 (LAO) substrates, whereas (011)LAO substrates promote the growth of elongated (011)CGO nanowires. HRTEM and RHEED analyses are used to study the early stages of nucleation, as well as the shape and interfacial structure of CGO nanostructures. A systematic study with the heating ramp, annealing temperature and time, and strain in combination with thermally activated theoretical models provides information on the nucleation behavior, nucleation barriers, and atomic diffusion coefficients along in-plane and out-of-plane island orientations. Highly anisotropic atomic diffusion constants have been shown to be at the origin of the high aspect ratios of some of the nanostructures. Overall, our study provides a general method for the evaluation of nucleation and coarsening of multiple CSD-derived oxide nanostructures and understanding the shape development by combining thermodynamic and kinetic approaches.
Hi everyone! My name is Hailin Wang. I’m from China. I have a master degree in Inorganic Chemistry, and I come to ICMAB to do my PhD about functional oxide thin films under the supervision of Dr. Narcis Mestres and Dr. Benjamin Martinez.
In my spare time, I like reading, travelling and bicycling.
