SCIENTIFIC HIGHLIGHTS

Battery ageing

M. Rosa Palacín

“Water everywhere…” what do we know about water molecules coating all the surfaces?

Tomoko K. Shimizu, Sabine Maier, Albert Verdaguer, Juan-Jesus Velasco-Velez, Miquel Salmeron

An overview of porous materials preparation under supercritical CO2

Ana M. López-Periago, Concepción Domingo

Colorful Cellulose Photonic Crystals

Andre Espinha, Camilla Dore, Cristiano Matricardi, Maria Isabel Alonso, Alejandro R. Goñi, Agustin Mihi

High dielectric metasurfaces exhibiting strong light absorption

Pau Molet, Juan Luis Garcia-Pomar, Cristiano Matricardi, Miquel Garriga, Maria Isabel Alonso and Agustín Mihi

Plasmonic supercrystals made with gold colloids

Cristiano Matricardi, Christoph Hanske, Juan Luis Garcia-Pomar, Judith Langer, Agustin Mihi and Luis M. Liz-Marzan

Stimuli-responsive Flexible Materials: the role of spherical icosahedral boron clusters

Fangchang Tan, Ana M. López-Periago, Mark E. Light, Jordi Cirera, Eliseo Ruiz, Alejandro Borrás,1 Francesc Teixidor,1 Clara Viñas,1 Concepción Domingo,1 José Giner Planas

Battery materials research: from commercial chemistries to new concepts

Montse Casas-Cabanas, Maxwell D. Radin, Jongsik Kim, Clare P. Grey, Anton Van der Ven, M. Rosa Palacín et al.

Ultrafast laser filling of PbI2 into carbon nanotubes: tubular van der Waals heterostructures exhibiting photogeneration of carriers

Stefania Sandoval, Dejan Kepić, Ángel Pérez del Pino, Enikö György, Andrés Gómez, Martin Pfannmoeller, Gustaaf Van Tendeloo, Belén Ballesteros, and Gerard Tobias

Visualizing degradation and defects in hybrid perovskite solar cells

Zhuoneng Bi, Xabier Rodríguez-Martínez, Clara Aranda, Enrique Pascual-San-José, Alejandro R. Goñi, Xueqing Xu, Antonio Guerrero, Andrés Gómez, Sandy Sánchez, Antonio Abate, and Mariano Campoy-Quiles

The evaluation of organic photovoltaic material goes “Fast and Flurrious”

Antonio Sánchez‐Díaz, Xabier Rodríguez‐Martínez, Laura Córcoles‐Guija, Germán Mora‐Martín and Mariano Campoy‐Quiles

In-depth analysis of novel semiconductor polymorphs

Claudia Fasolato, Marta De Luca, Doriane Djomani, Laetitia Vincent, Charles Renard, Giulia Di Iorio, Vincent Paillard, Michele Amato, Riccardo Rurali, and Ilaria Zardo

Symmetric supercapacitors made of flexible electrodes grown by laser-based technique

Ángel Perez del Pino, Andreu Martınez Villarroya, Alex Chuquitarqui, Constantin Logofatu, Dino Tonti, Enikö György

Unraveling the surface of nanoparticles: From aggregates to patchy Rare Earth Fluoride (ReF3) Nanoparticles

Jordi Martínez-Esaín, Teresa Puig, Xavier Obradors, Josep Ros, Ramón Yáñez, Jordi Faraudo and Susagna Ricart

Non-volatile Metal-Insulator Transition in high temperature superconducting through field-induced oxygen diffusion

Alejandro Fernandez-Rodriguez, Juan Carlos Gonzalez-Rosillo, Xavier Granados1, Mariona Coll, Bernat Bozzo, Rafael Ortega-Hernandez, Jordi Suñé, Xavier Obradors, Teresa Puig, Narcís Mestres, Anna Palau

High Temperature Superconducting Nanocomposites: A plethora for vortex pinning centers

Ziliang Li, Natalia Chamorro, Ferran Valles, Cornelia Pop, Bernat Mundet, Victor Rouco, Mariona Coll, Jaume Gazquez, Roger Guzman, Joffre Gutierrez, Bohores Villarejo, Flavio Pino, Josep Ros, Susagna Ricart, Anna Palau, Xavier Obradors, Teresa Puig

Cross talks between strain and chemistry at dislocations

Núria Bagués, José Santiso, Bryan D. Esser, Robert E. A. Williams, Dave W. McComb, Zorica Konstantinovic, Lluís Balcells, and Felip Sandiumenge

A new Iron (III) oxide phase from ε-Fe2O3 under high pressures

Juan Ángel Sans, Virginia Monteseguro, Gaston Garbarino, Martí Gich, Vera Cerantola, Valerio Cuartero, Manuel Monte, Tetsuo Irifune, Alfonso Muñoz, and Catalin Popescu

Ferroelastic domains in motion under electric fields

Blai Casals, Andrea Schiaffino, Arianna Casiraghi, Sampo J. Hämäläinen, Diego López González, Sebastiaan van Dijken, Massimiliano Stengel, Gervasi Herranz

Ferroelectric BaTiO3 and doped-HfO2: epitaxy and control of polarization

Ignasi Fina, Jike Lyu, Fanmao Liu, Raul Solanas, Guillaume Sauthier, Andrew M. Rappe, Josep Fontcuberta, and Florencio Sánchez

Storing information in a ferromagnetic insulating barrier

Laura López-Mir, Carlos Frontera, Hugo Aramberri, Karim Bouzehouane, Jose Cisneros-Fernández, Bernat Bozzo, Lluís Balcells, Benjamin Martínez

Influence of the magnetic field direction on the magnetoelectric properties of an incommensurate conical improper multiferroic

Irene Urcelay-Olabarria, Eric Ressouche, Vsevolod Yu Ivanov, Vassil Skumryev, Zhaosheng Wang, Yurii Skourski, Anatoly M. Balbashov, Yu. F. Popov, Gennadii Petrovich Vorob'ev, Navid Qureshi, José Luís García-Muñoz and Alexander A. Mukhin

Bending electrons

Massimiliano Stengel and David Vanderbilt

Anions are not naïve players in molecular conductors

Jean-Paul Pouget, Pere Alemany and Enric Canadell

Electron accumulative molecules: possible candidates for molecular electronics

Ana B. Buades, Víctor Sanchez Arderiu, David Olid-Britos, Clara Viñas, Reijo Sillanpää, Matti Haukka, Xavier Fontrodona, Markos Paradinas, Carmen Ocal, and Francesc Teixidor

Improving the stability of the electrode-molecule interface

Francesc Bejarano, Ignacio Jose Olavarria-Contreras, Andrea Droghetti, Ivan Rungger, Alexander Rudnev, Diego Gutierrez, Marta Mas-Torrent, Jaume Veciana, Herre S. J. van der Zant, Concepció Rovira, Enrique Burzurí, and Núria Crivillers

New facets of molecular conductors

Yann Le Gal, Thierry Roisnel, Pascale Auban-Senzier, Nathalie Bellec, Jorge Íñiguez, Enric Canadell, Dominique Lorcy, Suchithra Ashoka Sahadevan, Alexandre Abhervé, Noemi Monni, Cristina Sáenz de Pipaón, José R. Galán-Mascarós, Joao C. Waerenborgh, Bruno J. C. Vieira, Sébastien Pillet, El-Eulmi Bendeif, Pere Alemany, Maria L. Mercuri, Narcis Avarvari

Halogen interactions and rotor dynamics at the nanoscale

Sergey Simonov, Leokadiya Zorina, Pawel Wzietek, Antonio Rodríguez-Fortea, Enric Canadell, Cécile Mézière, Guillaume Bastien, Cyprien Lemouchi, Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay, and Patrick Batail

Organic electroactive molecules on surfaces for the development of electronic devices

Maria Serena Maglione, Antonio Campos, Sergi Galindo-Riera, Joaquim Puigdollers, Stefano Casalini, Stamatis Georgakopoulos, Marianna Barbalinardo, Vitaliy Parkula, Núria Crivillers, Concepció Rovira, Pierpaolo Greco, Marta Mas-Torrent

Nanoscale Phase Separation of Organic blends as key for high-performance OFETs

Ana Pérez-Rodríguez, Inés Temiño, Carmen Ocal, Marta Mas-Torrent, Esther Barrena

Boron-(b-diketone) compounds foster interplay between applied bias voltage and molecular dipole toward the achievement of bistability conductance measurements

Ignacio José Olavarría-Contreras, Alvaro Etcheverry-Berríos, Wenjie Qian, Cristian Gutiérrez-Cerón, Aldo Campos-Olguín, E. Carolina Sañudo, Diana Dulić, Eliseo Ruiz, Núria Aliaga-Alcalde, Monica Soler and Herre S. J. van der Zant

Stable fluorescent nanovesicles as new probes for bioimaging

Antonio Ardizzone, Davide Blasi, Siarhei Kurhuzenkau, Danilo Vona, Sílvia Illa‐Tuset, Arnulf Rosspeintner, Jordi Faraudo, Angela Punzi, Mykhailo Bondar, Emiliano Altamura, David Hagan, Natascia Grimaldi, Eric W. Van Stryland, Anna Painelli, Cristina Sissa, Santi Sala, Natalia Feiner, Eric Vauthey, Lorenzo Albertazzi, Gianluca M. Farinola, Imma Ratera, Jaume Veciana and Nora Ventosa

Quatsomes as a topical delivery platform

Berta Gumí-Audenis, , Sílvia Illa-Tuset, Luca Costa, Natascia Grimaldi, Laia Pasquina-Lemonche, Lidia Ferrer-Tasie, Fausto Sanz, Jaume Veciana, Imma Ratera, Jordi Faraudo, Nora Ventosa, and Marina I. Giannotti

Spherical and hollow bacterial cellulose structures; a novel material to promote long-term stemness of mouse embryonic stem cells (mESC)

Anna Laromaine, Tina Tronser, Ivana Pini, Sebastià Parets, Pavel A. Levkin and Anna Roig

Decoration of surfaces à la carte with gradients of protein nanoparticles for high-throughput studies on cell motility

Witold I. Tatkiewicz, Joaquin Seras-Franzoso, Elena Garcia-Fruitós, Esther Vazquez, Adriana R. Kyvik, Judith Guasch, Antonio Villaverde, Jaume Veciana, Imma Ratera

Preparation of curcumine bio-metal-organic-frameworks (MOFs)

Nuria Portolés-Gil, Arianna Lanza, Núria Aliaga-Alcalde, José A. Ayllón, Mauro Gemmi, Enrico Mugnaioli, Ana M. López-Periago, and Concepción Domingo

Metallacarboranes on the road to anticancer therapies

Isabel Fuentes, Tania García-Mendiola, Shinichi Sato, Marcos Pita, Hiroyuki Nakamura, Encarnación Lorenzo, Francesc Teixidor, Fernanda Marques, and Clara Viñas

Potential boron-based drugs for glioma treatment

Marcos Couto, María Fernanda García, Catalina Alamón, Mauricio Cabrera, Pablo Cabral, Alicia Merlino, Francesc Teixidor, Hugo Cerecetto, and Clara Viñas

Remote control of neural cell behavior using induced dipoles in electroactive conducting implanted materials

Ann M. Rajnicek, Zhiqiang Zhao, Javier Moral-Vico, Ana M. Cruz, Colin D. McCaig, and Nieves Casañ-Pastor

Boron clusters bearing Tin complexes: efficient and specific cell-staining conjugates

Justo Cabrera‐González, Blanca M. Muñoz‐Flores, Clara Viñas, Arturo Chávez‐Reyes, H. V. Rasika Dias, Víctor M. Jiménez‐Pérez and Rosario Núñez
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