BCMaterials presents the provisional program for this year "New Materials for a Better Life" workshop wich will take place in the Faculty of Science an Technology of the Leioa Campus (UPV/EHU) on friday, 20th of November. This year the workshop theme is Materials for Energy.

Last thursday, on the tenth day of september, Professor Ludwig Schultz gave a talk about superconducting levitation at the Science and Technology Faculty of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). During the talk, he exposed different mechanisms of levitation by means of magnetic materials for urban transportation. The first mechanism consists on the employment of magnets to make the mean of transportation levitate.

Last Wednesday, 29th of July Mikel Rouco, Lucia Gandarias, Mikel Perez Cerrato and Erik Garcia presented the work they have done during their summer internships in BCMaterials. The works they presented were:

“Magnetic vortex configuration permalloy nanodisks”  by Mikel Rouco

“Bionanomagnetismo”  by Lucia Gandarias

Last Monday 20th of July the magnetic materials research groups from Basque Country, Cantabria and Oviedo met up in Unquera. They were received by the mayor of Val de San Vicente and the culture councillor. These groups, which have been working together for more than thirty years on joint projects about magnetic materials and their use, have focused their last years research on nanomaterials with biomedical uses and the use of these new materials on comunication technologies and new sensors.

Several members of BCMaterials took part in the 20th International Conference on Magnetism celebrated in Barcelona between the 5th and the 10th of July

  Last Thursday, 2nd of July the Associate Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the MIT, Caroline Ross visited BCMaterials in relation to a collaboration between the two institutes in a patterning Project. The project focuses on the study of  self-assembly of block copolymers and developing of methods for templating self-assembly in order to form well-organized structures useful in nanoscale fabrication and devices.  

The new Microsense 2 Tesla Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM) installed at BCMaterials is a versatile instrument of high resolution (1 µemu) large temperature scan (77-1000K) and easy operation. The instrument is aimed to provide quick and reliable data on all magnetic materials synthesized and processed in BCMaterials, as Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys, Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructured Magnetic Materials, Permanent Magnets  and Advanced Magnetic Materials for Sensors.

When: 8 weeks: June 8th – July 30th Who: We are looking for motivated students in their final years (3rd and 4rd) preferable in Physics, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering and Electrical Engineering. What: Main topics are:

• Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys (MSMA). 
Bulk, single crystal and thin films materials for macro-, micro- and nano-actuators.
• Smart Polymers and composites.

María Luisa Fernández-Gubieda is one of the invited speakers at 5th Zing Bionanomaterials Conference on April 26th (9:50) in Carvoeiro, Portugal. Hyperthermia response and citotoxity studies of magnetite nanoparticles from Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense Magnetotactic bacteria are microorganisms that have the ability to align and navigate

The Spanish Nuclear Safety Center (CSN), through PROINSA, a training certified company, will give a course to ESS Bilbao staff for obtaining licenses for radioactive facilities supervision. BCMaterials will host the 56 hours course that will take place from April the 27th to May the 12th.