The way bacteriae produce high quality magnetite nanoparticles. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nn3059983

Last May the 9th, at the Paraninfo of the Faculty of Science & Technology, UPV/EHU, Leioa Campus of Bizcay, was held the one day workshop named “New Materials fot Better Life”, with great success of participation.

The second edition of the Workshop on “New Materials for a Better Life!” will take place on May the 9th, 2013 at the “Paraninfo” of the Faculty of Science & Technology, UPV/EHU, Leioa Campus, Biscay. This year it will be devoted to magnetic materials, covering a large range of applications, lectured by first order speakers from all around the world. A round table about New Materials and Innovation, with researchers,…

BCMATERIALS will host the 1st edition of the Spring School on Materials, this year focused on Magnetic Materials and Applications. The School, from the 6th until the 10th of May 2013 will take place at BCMATERIALS in Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Bizkaia, Edificio 500, Derio (BIZKAIA). The Spring School on Magnetic Materials and Applications will give a broad view on the most recent advances in the field. The lecturers…

On this March,  BCMaterials has taken part in the working meeting between the heads of the University of Cantabria (UC) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) in order to formalize the signing of a collaboration agreement between BCMaterials and UC. The agreement pretends to encourage and support the free exchange of scientific and information between the two institutions and also the participation in meetings to develop joint research projects. The document…

PROGRAMA: “Nanotecnología: El Gran Reto de lo Pequeño” 27 de febrero – “¿Qué es nano?”- Salón de Grados José Ignacio Pascual(CIC nanoGUNE) 6 de marzo – “Cómo hacer y donde encontrar nanosistemas” – Se anunciará Maite Insausti (UPV/EHU) 13 de marzo – “Las bacterias también producen nanopartículas” – Salón de Grados María Luisa Fernández-Gubieda Ruiz (UPV/EHU BERC Materials) 20 de marzo – “De la micro a la nanoelectrónica” – Sala…

Next Monday February 25th,  BCMaterials Foundation and the Faculty of Science and Technology of the UPV-EHU in collaboration with Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, will present a seminar taught by Professor Luis Echegoyen.  The seminar will be held in Sala Anexa al Paraninfo, Faculty of Science and Technology of the UPV / EHU in Leioa (Bizkaia) at 11:30 h with the following title:  “Buckyball Maracas: The inside (and outside) of…

Applied Physics Letters has published BCMaterials first scientific paper “Transformation volume strain in Ni-Mn-Ga thin films”   I. R. Aseguinolaza,1 I. Reyes-Salazar,1 A. V. Svalov,1 K. Wilson,2 W. B. Knowlton,2 P. M€ullner,2 J. M. Barandiaran,1 E. Villa,3 and V. A. Chernenko1,4,a) 1BCMaterials and Department of Electricity and Electronics, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU),P.O. Box 644, Bilbao 48080, Spain 2Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho…

On October 17th the mentioned expert payed a visit to the new installations of BCMaterials at the Biscay Technological Park to obtain information about the projects of the center. The aim was to prepare a report on the Basque Science and Technology network for the French Departments of Science and High Education. The picture above shows a moment of the visit: from left to right, Jose Luis Vilas, General Manager…

It is our pleasure to announce the “State of the Art on New Materials” Seminar series starting November the 8th, as part of our MSc on New Materials. 8 Nov 2012: Francisco del Monte (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, Spain) Bioinspired Materials The most complex hierarchically organized chemical structures (e.g., from the nanoworld of proteins to the macroscopic structures of oyster shells, bone and enamel, among others) can…