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7 of November, 2025
Màster de Química de Materials Aplicada

A càrrec de la Dra. María Escudero, Professora  i Investigadora ICREA a L´Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2), Barcelona

Títol de la xerrada: Tailored Electrocatalytic Interfaces and Materials for Renewable Energy Conversion

Lloc dia, i hora: Aula Magna Enric Casassas, Divendres, 7 de Novembre de 2025, 12:00 h

Abstract:

Tailoring and elucidating the structure of electrocatalytically active sites at the atomic and molecular levels is key to design advanced and functional nanomaterials for sustainable energy conversion. This seminar will discuss recent strategies to investigate and tune both active site and electrolyte engineering. These strategies are essential optimise the structure-property relationships for different electrocatalytic reactions of interest to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. We are combining electrochemical methods, surface-science techniques, in-situ vibrational spectroscopy, and electrochemical scanning probe microscopy to understand the mechanism of emerging sustainable reactions. Some electrocatalytic reactions of interest include oxygen evolution for green hydrogen production, along with electrochemical carbon dioxide, nitrate and methane conversion into sustainable fuels and chemicals. In this talk, I will present our studies on well-defined Cu-based surfaces to assess the interfacial properties for the electrochemical CO2reduction reaction. I will discuss some strategies to investigate the molecular mechanisms of emerging electrosynthesis processes. These reactions include the electrochemical nitrate reduction to produce ammonia, electrochemical C-N coupling for urea production, and electrochemical methane conversion to produce liquid fuels such as methanol.

 

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30 of October, 2025

Lecture of the Doctoral Program in Organic Chemistry

The di-π-methane rearrangement in phosphabarrelenes
By Dr. Christian Müller, Freie Universität Berlin
🗓 Date: Thursday, October 30, 2025
🕛 Time: 12:00 PM
📍 Venue: Enric Casassas Lecture Hall, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona (UB)
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17 of October, 2025

Lecture of the Doctoral Program in Organic Chemistry

Solar Energy Conversion and Energy Storage Materials
By Dr. Kasper Moth–Poulsen, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
🗓 Date: Friday, October 17, 2025
🕛 Time: 12:00 PM
📍 Venue: Enric Casassas Lecture Hall, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona (UB)
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10 of October, 2025

Upcoming PhD Thesis Defense

Next Friday, October 10th, at 11:30 a.m., in the Enric Casassas Aula Magna, our colleague Marta López will defend her PhD thesis entitled New visible-light activated caging groups based on COUPY dyes for anticancer phototherapeutic applications, supervised by Dr. Vicente Marchán.

Congratulations on all the work done! We wish her all the very best in her future career!

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13 of June, 2025

Award Ceremony: Josep Castells and Marcial Moreno Mañas Prizes

🗓 Date: Friday, June 13th

🕛 Time: from 11:00 to 13:00

📍 Venue: Enric Casassas Lecture Hall, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona (UB)

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5 of June, 2025

Lecture of the Doctoral Program in Organic Chemistry

Photopharmacology: Towards Image-Guided Pharmacotherapy

By Dr. Wiktor Szymanski, Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy, University of Groningen

🗓 Date: Thursday, June 5, 2025
🕛 Time: 11:00 PM
📍 Venue: Eduard Fonserè Lecture Hall, Faculty of Physics, University of Barcelona (UB)

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28 of May, 2025

Lecture of the Doctoral Program in Organic Chemistry

 

By Dr. Claudio Viegas, Universidade Federal de Alfenas (Brazil)

🗓 Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2025
🕛 Time: 12:00 PM
📍 Venue: Enric Casassas Lecture Hall, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona (UB)

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23 of May, 2025

Lecture of the Doctoral Program in Organic Chemistry

Smart Nanocarriers by Design

By Dr. Beatriz Pelaz, CiQUS-Universidad Santiago de Compostela

🗓 Date: Friday, May 23rd, 2025
🕛 Time: 12:00 PM
📍 Venue: Enric Casassas Lecture Hall, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona (UB)

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9 of May, 2025

Lecture of the Doctoral Program in Organic Chemistry

Peptides and peptidomimetics as chemical tools to harness cell behavior and tissue regeneration on biomaterials

By Dr. Carles Mas-Moruno, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

🗓 Date: Friday, May 9th, 2025
🕛 Time: 12:00 PM
📍 Venue: Enric Casassas Lecture Hall, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona (UB)

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11 of April, 2025

Lecture of the Doctoral Program in Organic Chemistry

Novel Synthetic Methods in Photochemistry and Photocatalysis 

By Dr. Daniele Leonori, RWTH Aachen University 

Date and venue: Friday, April 11th, 2025, at 12:00 PM; Enric Casassas Lecture Hall, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona (UB) 

 

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28 of March, 2025

Lecture of the Doctoral Program in Organic Chemistry

Catalyst Control in Complex Molecule Synthesis 

By Dr. Darren J. Dixon, University of Oxford 

Date and venue: March 28th, 2025, at 12:00 PM; Eduard Fontserè Lecture Hall, Faculty of Physics, University of Barcelona (UB). 

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21 of February, 2025

Lecture of the Doctoral Program in Organic Chemistry

Chemigenetic Tools for Near-Infrared Imaging

By Dr. Pablo Rivera-Fuentes, University of Zurich

Date and venue: February 21st, 2025, at 12:00 PM; Enric Casassas Lecture Hall, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona (UB).

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11 of February, 2025

Conferencia Fèlix Serratosa 2025

On Tuesday, February 11th, at the Enric Casassas Lecture Hall, Professor Ilan Marek (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology) will give his second seminar on Remote Functionalization as part of the Fèlix Serratosa Conference 2025. For further information see Programa Serratosa 2025

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7 of February, 2025

Lecture of the Doctoral Program in Organic Chemistry

Regulating non-equilibrium self-assembly with chemical fuels—Spinning ribbons, dissipative structures, and an approach towards synthetic life

By Dr. Job Boekhoven, Technical University of Munich

Date and venue: February 7th, 2025, at 12:00 PM; Eduard Fontserè Lecture Hall, Faculty of Physics, University of Barcelona (UB).

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24 of January, 2025

Lecture of the Doctoral Program in Organic Chemistry

A Structure-Based Approach to Tackle Protein Aggregation in Parkinson’s Disease

By Dr. Salvador Ventura, Institut de Biotecnologia i de Biomedicina, UAB

Date and venue: January 24th, 2025, at 12:00 PM; Enric Casassas Lecture Hall, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona (UB).

 

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13 of December, 2024

Lecture of the Doctoral Program in Organic Chemistry

Mechanistic understanding-led transition metal catalyzed C-H functionalization

By Dr. Igor Larrosa, University of Manchester

Date and venue: December 13th, 2024, at 12:00 PM; Enric Casassas Lecture Hall, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Barcelona (UB).

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12 of December, 2024

Beatriz Piniello will defend her Thesis entitled Computational modeling of inverting glycosyltransferase reaction mechanisms, supervised by Dr. Carme Rovira Virgili, on Thursday, December 12th, at 11:30 AM in the Enric Casassas Auditorium

Congratulations on the work accomplished, and best wishes for your professional future

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12 of December, 2024

Oriol Galeote will defend her Thesis entitled Metal catalysed asymmetric C–C bond forming reactions, supervised by Drs. Pere Romea and Fèlix Urpí on Thursday, December 12th, at 16:00 AM in the Enric Casassas Auditorium

Congratulations on the work accomplished, and best wishes for your professional future !!!

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4 of December, 2024

Irene Cuixart will defend her Thesis entitled Simulations of Glycoside Hydrolase and Phosphorylase Reaction Mechanisms: Families GH20, GH29, GH129, and GH130, supervised by Dr. Carme Rovira Virgili, next Wednesday, December 4th, at 11:00 AM in the Enric Casassas Auditorium

Congratulations on the work accomplished, and best wishes for your professional future

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22 of November, 2024

Lecture of the Doctoral Program in Organic Chemistry

Supramolecular chemistry of hybrid cyclophane-cyclopeptide receptors and mixed monolayer-protected gold nanoparticles in water

By Dr. Stefan Kubik, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau

Date and Venue: November, 22nd, 2024 at 12:00; Eduard Fontserè lecture hall of the Faculty of Physics (UB)

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25 of October, 2024

Lecture of the Doctoral Program in Organic Chemistry

New molecular systems towards targeted imaging and delivery

By Dr. Ona Illa, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Date and Venue: October, 25th, 2024 at 12:00; Sala de Graus of the Faculty of Physics (UB)

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18 of October, 2024
Màster de Química de Materials Aplicada

Conferència a càrrec de la Dra. Inés Fernandez  del Departament de Química Física i Ciència de Materials titulada:  “Recerca en materials per emmagatzematge d’energia tèrmica”

Lloc: Sala de Graus de Física

Dia i hora: Divendres, 18 d’Octubre de 2024, 12:00 h.

Us hi esperem!

 

 

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14 of October, 2024
Historical archive of the Inorganic Chemistry Section: 6th edition of the European Mediterranean Conference on Inorganic Chemistry (FIGIPS), held in Barcelona in 2001.

We invite all members of our Section to explore the historical archive of the FIGIPS conference, which took place in Barcelona in 2001. This event was organized by several of our active and former members, including Prof. Santiago Alvarez, who generously provided this impressive collection of images.

The album is available in the director’s office in both print and digital formats.

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11 of October, 2024

Lecture of the Doctoral Program in Organic Chemistry

Catalytic Carbyne Transfer in Organic Synthesis

By Prof. Marcos García Suero, Institut Català d’Investigació Química (ICIQ) (Webpage)

Date and Venue: October, 11th, 2024 at 12:00; Aula Enric Casassas of the Faculty of Chemistry (UB)

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3 of October, 2024

Lecture of the Doctoral Program in Organic Chemistry

Biomimetic Spirocyclizations for the Synthesis of Indole Alkaloids

By Prof. Romano V.A. Orru, Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (AMIBM) (Webpage)

Date and Venue: October, 3rd, 2024 at 12:00; Aula Magna of the Faculty of Pharmacy (UB)

ABSTRACT: In the past 10 years we worked on a number of Tandem- and Multi Component Reaction strategies that involve a spirocyclization process. Especially, the spirocyclizations leading to spiroindelenine scaffolds proved very rewarding. Our one-pot spirocyclizations can be considered a bio-mimetic approach to synthesize indole alkaloid natural products and their derivatives in a concise, atom- and step efficient manner. This opens opportunities for total synthesis, but also for medicinal chemistry studies of these privileged heterocyclic molecules. In this presentation, I will highlight our work in this area over the years in detail discussing both scope and limitations of the methodology, fundamental mechanistic aspects and synthetic its applications.

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30 of September, 2024
Acte de Jubilació dels nostres companys Amparo Caubet, Jaume Granell, Margarita Crespo i Ramón Vicente Castillo

El passat dilluns 30 de setembre va ser el darrer dia de feina dels nostres companys Amparo Caubet, Jaume Granell, Margarita Crespo i Ramón Vicente Castillo després de diverses dècades a la nostra Secció.

Us desitgem tot el millor en aquesta nova etapa i sempre sereu benvinguts, això és casa vostra!

 

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13 of September, 2024

The European Innovation Council funds two UB projects to develop cutting-edge technologies

Two University of Barcelona projects have been selected by the European Innovation Council to develop cutting-edge technologies within the 2024 Pathfinder Open call. Marta Estrader and Josep Puigmartí Luis, researchers from the UB’s Faculty of Chemistry, lead two consortia to promote advances in the remote detection of aquatic pollution and cell alignment in tissue bioprinting, respectively.

Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Faculty of Chemistry Marta Estrader, a member of the UB’s Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (IN2UB), coordinates the WATERsense project, funded with three million euros over four years. The aim is to “remotely detect the presence of pollutants in water at any time”, explains Estrader. “Therefore, we will develop magneto-optical nanosensors that will be able to encapsulate certain pollutants (from pesticides to products derived from the chemical and pharmaceutical industry) on the previously functionalized surface. These substances can be identified using vibrational Raman spectroscopy”, she adds.

The innovation of the WATERsense technology lies in the fact that “through a small device that will be installed in rivers, lakes or any point of water, it will be possible to quickly detect the presence of contamination, and the results will be sent immediately via the internet, which will reduce the overall cost compared to the methodology used today”, says Estrader.

Eventually, WATERsense will make it possible to carry out careful analyses of variations in water quality in relation to changes in socio-economic activity or in the demography of a certain place or region. The project involves researchers from the University of Vigo, the Austrian Institute of Technology, the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Hydrodynamics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and Lightnovo.

More information: https://web.ub.edu/en/web/actualitat/w/eic-pathfinder-2024

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18 of June, 2024
New Call for Department Grants for the next course 2024-2025.
The deadline is September 17, 2024. For further information, visit here.
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12 of April, 2024
Dia  12/04/2024
Hora  12:00
Aula  Aula Enric Casassas
Conferència –
Omar Botureira (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
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5 of April, 2024
Dia  5/04/2024
Hora  12:00
Aula  Aula Enric Casassas
Conferència C–C and C–N Bond Formation Through 1- and 2-Electron Processes
Patrick J. Walsh (University of Pennsylvania)
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20 of March, 2024
Seminari: “Hybrid 2D/CMOS microchips for memristive Applications”
Dia  20-03-2024
Hora  12:00
Aula  Sala Graus Eduard Fontserè
Lloc
 Institut de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia UB
Informació Conferenciant: Mario Lanza, Ph.D. – IEEE Fellow.  Associate Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Physical Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia.

Resum: Abstract: Two-dimensional (2D) materials have outstanding physical, chemical and thermal properties that make them attractive for the fabrication of solid-state micro/nano-electronic devices and circuits. However, synthesizing high-quality 2D materials at the wafer scale is difficult, and integrating them in silicon microchips brings associated multiple challenges. Nevertheless, in the past few years substantial progress has been achieved and leading companies like TSMC, Intel and Samsung have started to work in this direction too. In this talk I will discuss how to integrate 2D materials in micro/nano-electronic devices, circuits, and microchips, giving a general overview of the global progress achieved in the field and presenting our last developments in hybrid 2D/CMOS applications. I will put special emphasis on devices and circuits for memristive technologies, including data storage, computation, encryption, and communication. I will also discuss the main technological challenges to face in the next years and provide some recommendations on how to solve them.

Link: https://www.ub.edu/in2ub/research-seminar-hybrid-2d-cmos-microchips-for-memristive-applications-20-03-204/.
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26 of January, 2024
Baixada del consum d’energia i aigua el 2023 a les facultats de Física i de Química

Les xifres del consum d’energia i agua a les facultats de Física i de Química de gener a desembre del 2023 han experimentat una davallada respecte a l’any 2022. Així, l’evolució del consum 2022-2023 suposa un descens en electricitat (–6,2 %), gas (–37,8 %) i aigua (–8,1 %). En conjunt s’ha evitat una despesa global de 182.188 €.

La infografia recull aquesta informació així com equivalències numèriques amb altres situacions de la vida actual.

«En som responsables!» és l’eslògan de la campanya d’estalvi energètic de la Universitat de Barcelona. És una qüestió prioritària de la política de la UB, que es va posar en marxa a principis de 2023 per part de l’Oficina de Seguretat, Salut i Medi Ambient (OSSMA). Més informació a ub.edu/estalvienergetic.

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