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Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2)

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🔬 We study and apply the behaviour of matter at the #nanoscale. 🤝 Center of #iCERCA and member of #BIST, #SOMM_alliance and #ACER_Recerca. 🔗 Website: https://icn2.cat/en/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=Social%2520&utm_campaign=Bio

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Congratulations to all of them!

Together, they represent the future of a more inclusive and equitable scientific community.

bist.eu/talent/mothe...

08.03.2026 08:25 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Closing the Gender Gap in Science - BIST To the Mothers of Science 2026
Closing the Gender Gap in Science - BIST To the Mothers of Science 2026 YouTube video by Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology BIST

Science thrives when talent can flourish.

This #InternationalWomensDay, we celebrate 7 #BISTCommunity scientists and mothers who will be supported by the To the Mothers of Science programme as they advance towards leadership in their fields.
youtu.be/Mdl-EFL4zCI?...

08.03.2026 08:25 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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🗣️ Forum @bist.eu

🤝 La#BISTCommunity ens reunim un any més per celebrar els èxits de l'ecosistema català de recerca i innovació i debatre sobre com està transformant la nova indústria. 

Tot un honor i orgull formar part del BIST i contribuir en aquesta transformació.

06.03.2026 10:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🚀 From nanoscience to real-world impact.

At #MWC Barcelona, three ICN2 spin-offs showcased their innovations:

🔹Distinkt & Apeiron Intelligence: at #4YFN stands
🔹INBRAIN Neuroelectronics: CEO Carolina Aguilar at a roundtable discussion on #BrainComputerInterfaces

ℹ️ https://f.mtr.cool/cvvzhbdqqr

05.03.2026 17:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#BISTForum2026 is almost here!

On March 6, the #BISTCommunity will gather at CosmoCaixa in Barcelona with key stakeholders from science, policy, business and industry to explore how frontier #research can be the bedrock for a new industry.

Programme: bist.eu/events/event...

04.03.2026 10:21 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🏠 ICN2 Visits

Fa poc vam rebre alumnes de l'Institut Cirviànum (Torelló) per l'activitat 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗮'𝗺, en què van entrevistar estudiants de doctorat del grup Physics and Engineering of Nanodevices i també van visitar tres laboratoris.

🙏 Gràcies per la visita!
🤝 Iniciativa del @bist.eu

03.03.2026 17:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📃 LATEST NEWS❗

After #BeastCancer surgery, over 90% of patients experience skin side effects from radiotherapy. The NANORADIOMED project, with the Nanosfun Research group, aims to prevent and ease these reactions.

🤝 @uab.cat | @igtp.bsky.social | Grupo CARINSA

ℹ️ Read more: f.mtr.cool/melfvltkud

03.03.2026 08:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📃 NEW PAPER OUT❗

A team of researchers led by Prof. Klaas-Jan Tielrooij explored the cooling performance of hBN, a 2D material with excellent thermal, electrical and optical properties, key for future nanodevices.

📜 Nano Letters

ℹ️ Discover the main findings here: https://f.mtr.cool/dstbqjsvvl

27.02.2026 10:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🔬 Could the movement of our organs produce electricity?

Meet Dr Elena Del Corro as she explains #triboelectricity and how combining it with graphene electrodes could be key to treating #NeurologicalDiseases such as #epilepsy or depression in the future.

#ScienceShorts

25.02.2026 17:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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♀️ To mark #11F, within the #científiques programme, around 600 women visited schools to share their journeys in #STEM and inspire the next generation of younger scientists. 

👀 Meet the ICN2 researchers who took part: https://f.mtr.cool/vwtyvgetvm

🤝 @bist.eu | @fcri.bsky.social 

#Científiques2026

24.02.2026 17:18 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🤔 Què els passa als dispositius electrònics de #grafè quan estan en contacte amb un medi aquós?
 
ℹ️ Les Dres. Elena del Corro i Marta Delgà ho expliquen a l'article del portal UAB Divulga: https://f.mtr.cool/nwwgeqsmbn

24.02.2026 10:03 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🗣️ #ICN2Seminars

We invite you to this 𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 by Prof. Farkhad G. Aliev (@uam.es), hosted by Dr Juan F. Sierra.

📆 27/02/2026
⏰ 12 PM 
📍 ICMAB Campus UAB (Spain)
📝 Register here to attend! 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/tvbliyqlgo
🔃 Sharing is appreciated!

#Spintronics

23.02.2026 09:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🤝 Together with @pruab.cat & European Innovation Council, we had an InfoDay this week on how to prepare proposals for #EICTransition & #EICPathfinder. There was a round table on success stories and presentations on the evaluation process.

 Thank you to the co-organisers and everyone who joined!

20.02.2026 09:20 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🚀 Apeiron Intelligence possibilities are limitless. From atoms to devices, their simulations unlock infinite applications.

After MWC Doha, they're now bringing their vision to #MWC26 Barcelona & @4YFN_MWC to connect with anyone in #DeepTech.

ℹ️ https://f.mtr.cool/jrcdkytgmo

#MWCBarcelona #B2BTech

19.02.2026 17:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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11/ 🪟 El projecte WINPRINT (@icn2.bsky.social) busca reduir el consum energètic i avançar cap a una Barcelona climàticament adaptada.

Per aconseguir-ho, crearan finestres intel·ligents que regulen el pas de la llum i l’acumulació de calor, reduint el consum per refrigeració.

bit.ly/3NTUZL6

19.02.2026 08:12 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Join us for the 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗕𝗜𝗦𝗧 𝗦𝘆𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘂𝗺 on Microscopy, Nanoscopy & Imaging Sciences!

ℹ️ Free event, but prior registration is required.
🔗 Link to program & registration: https://f.mtr.cool/hvfgxvcoel

🤝 ICREAs @jarbiol.bsky.social (ICN2) & Maria Garcia (@icfo.eu)
🤝 @bist.eu

#Collaboration

18.02.2026 17:03 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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📢 Registrations are open for the 9th Edition of the BIST Symposium on Microscopy, Nanoscopy and Imaging Sciences.

Free registration
👉Programme: bist.eu/events/event...

17.02.2026 13:44 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Could a Mussel-Inspired Adhesive Patch Help Treat Brain Tumours?

Researchers at @icn2.bsky.social, @uab.cat & Bellvitge University Hospital develop an adhesive membrane able to kill up to 90% of cancer cells in lab models

📝 Published in #AdvancedScience
#BISTCommunity

👉 bist.eu/could-a-muss...

16.02.2026 16:48 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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📃 NEW PAPER OUT❗

ICREA Prof. @mariaescesc.bsky.social (@nanoesc.bsky.social) led a Perspective article revisiting how surface area is used to assess catalyst performance, clarifying key concepts & offering a more rigorous approach to interpretation.

🤝 @unileiden.bsky.social

🔗 bit.ly/4aoefco

17.02.2026 14:14 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🗣️ #ICN2Seminars

Join us for this 𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 by Prof. Damion Corrigan (@unistrathclyde.bsky.social)

🔷 Hosts: ICREA Prof. @arbenmerkoci.bsky.social & Dr Andrew Piper
📆 23/02/2026
⏰ 10 AM 
📍 ICMAB Campus UAB (Spain)
📝 Register here to attend! 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/fkmbdxwxfe
🔃 Sharing is appreciated!

16.02.2026 17:30 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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La setmana del PRUAB, en tres idees centrals: l'infoday de l'EIC amb @icn2.bsky.social, el vídeo de l'Elevator Pitch i la presentació de PLANeT Biotech, darrera spin-off del @creaf.cat! @uab.cat

Tots els vídeos i presentacions, al nostre perfil. 🖱️

13.02.2026 12:10 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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♻️ En Muy Interesante, la Prof. @mariaescesc.bsky.social @nanoesc.bsky.social explica que el electrolito es vital en la electrocatalisis para convertir electricidad renovable en moléculas útiles sin emisiones.

💡 Descubre el por qué: https://f.mtr.cool/wzcizcvjgp

#TransiciónEnergética

13.02.2026 09:40 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🦠 Una empresa surgida del #CSIC y el @icn2.bsky.social impulsará un dispositivo de diagnóstico rápido de infecciones bacterianas

🔬 Permitirá la detección de estas infecciones en menos de 30 minutos y a través de una pequeña muestra de sangre del paciente

👉 http://tiny.cc/8aqy001

12.02.2026 09:03 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Join us! firechat w 4 entrepreneurs of #BISTCommunity spin-offs!

Learn from their experiences in leading science-based companies.
🔹Carlos Abellán-Quside
🔹Cristina Sáenz-Orchestra Scientific
🔹Lluís Armengol-qGenomics, Veritas Genetics
🔹Teresa Tarragó-iProteos, Telara Pharma
bist.eu/events/event...

09.02.2026 16:03 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🔹 Catalunya Press ➡️ https://f.mtr.cool/illtemarpp
🔹 La Voz de Galicia ➡️ https://f.mtr.cool/eewlvzncod
🔹 The New Barcelona Post ➡️ https://f.mtr.cool/quqyukdtxl

11.02.2026 16:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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📰 ¡𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐬 𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐚!

🧠 Inspirarse en las propiedades adhesivas de los mejillones para tratar el cáncer cerebral más agresivo, el #glioblastoma. Esto hicieron los investigadores del Nanosfun Research Group en su último estudio.

¡Lee los artículos en el hilo! 👇

11.02.2026 16:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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#11F: Day of Women & #GirlsInSTEM

Are you a woman working in science? Today and every day, we recognise your resilience, impact, and last but not least, your contributions to research and technology!

🔍 Meet some of the inspiring, powerful women behind ICN2! 👇

#WomenInSTEM

11.02.2026 09:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🎒 #BojosPerlaCiencia: Física

🔬 A l'ICN2, observem materials mil cops més petits que un cabell humà, i dissabte passat ho vam comprovar!

💡 Vam aprendre sobre nanopartícules i vam descobrir les diferències entre els microscopis SEM i TEM.

🤝 Coordinat per Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera

10.02.2026 17:20 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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L’EIC Pathfinder Open ha obert la nova edició de la seva convocatòria amb més de 165 M€ esperant a tecnologies disruptives que vulguin obrir-se camí!

En aquest sentit, amb @icn2.bsky.social hem organitzat un infoday per resoldre dubtes i presentar-ne tots els detalls: www.pruab.cat/ca/agenda/se...

10.02.2026 14:57 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🎉 Avui és un dia especial! Celebrem els #25anysICREA al CCCB.

Ens trobem més de 320 persones per celebrar un quart de segle de recerca d'excel·lència que ha transformat Catalunya i l'ha projectat al món.

Avui, més que mai, tots #SomICREA.

06.02.2026 10:32 👍 17 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 7