9:00-9:15 Welcome

10:15-10:30

10:30-10:45

10:45-11:00

11:00-11:15

11:15-11:30

11:30-12:30

Nanostructured Back Reflectors for Efficient Colloidal Quantum Dot Infrared Optoelectronics

Pau Molet (ICMAB-CSIC)

Advanced 2G HTS Tape Architectures for HVDV Superconducting Fault Current Limiters

Pedro Barusco (ICMAB-CSIC)

Pablo Vales-Castro (ICN2)

Pamela Machado (ICMAB-CSIC)

Band gap tuning of solution-processed ferroelectric perovskite BiFe1-xCoxO3 thin films

Viktoria Holovanova (Catalonia Institute for Energy Research - IREC)

Combined photo- and thermocatalytical approach for efficient CO2 hydrogenation

Coffee break & Poster Session (Posters 1-13)

Thursday 6th June 2019

4th Scientific Meeting of BNC-b students

JPhD2019

9:15-9:35

9:35-10:15

Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC)

Energy & Environment

Anna May Masnou (Communication & Outreach Officer at ICMAB-CSIC)

Marc Castellarnau (Managing Director at Fuelium)

Invited talk "Academia vs Industry"

Giant Negative Electrocaloric Effect with Antiferroelectrics

Invited talk "Science Communication: a career outside academia"

Invited talk "Game of Post-docs"

Joffre Gutierrez (Tenured Scientist at ICMAB-CSIC)

12:30-12:45

12:45-13:00

13:00-13:15

13:15-13:30

13:30-15:00

15:40-15:55

15:55-16:10

16:10-16:25

16:30-18:00

Electrolyte-gated field-effect transistors for protein detection

Gisela Ruiz Vega (Vall d'Hebron Institut de Recerca - VHIR)

Tuning Quatsome vesicles for biomedical applications

Salvador Ferrer (Scientific Assistant at ALBA synchrotron)

Invited talk "ALBA synchotron: Basic concepts, applications and future

perspectives"

LUNCH BREAK (no lunch provided)

Simona Ricci (ICMAB-CSIC)

Graphene based electrodes for retinitis pigmentosa diagnosis

Albert Ginestà Blasi (ICMAB-CSIC)

Bioapplications

Point of care (POC) device with magnetic beads for the fast and quantitative electrochemical detection of

Plasmodium antigen

Jose Manuel de la Cruz Sánchez (ICN2)

Plasmonic mechanochromic metamaterial: development of wireless photodetectors

Pau Güell (ICN2)

15:00-15:40

Water-processable cellulose-based sacrificial layers for advanced nanofabrication

Camilla Dore (ICMAB-CSIC)

Round table: "Beyond the lab"

Nanofabrication & Nanodevices

María Tenorio (Chair of Societat Catalana de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia and Physics PhD

researcher)

Laura Díaz (President of Scientists Dating Forum and Biomedicine PhD researcher),

Laurent Ladépêche (Co-director of Pint of Science Spain and Neuroscience PhD researcher),

Xiao Long (ICMAB-CSIC)

CMOS compatible Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 tunnel junction for non-volatile memory application

Alejandro Ramos (Col·lectiu de Doctorands en Lluita and Biochemistry PhD researcher),

9:30-9:45

9:45-10:00

10:00-10:15

10:15-10:30

10:30-10:45

10:45-11:00

11:00-12:00

12:45-13:00

13:00-13:15

13:15-13:30

13:30-15:00

Fully Integrated Electrochemical Sensors: a Disruptive Alternative Compatible With Microelectronics

Procedures

Nanomaterials - part 1

Invited talk "Spinning the Future of Electronics"

Sergio Valenzuela (ICREA Research Professor and Group Leader, ICN2)

12:00-12:45

Mónica Bernal Salamanca (ICMAB-CSIC)

Nonstoichiometry Driven Ferromagnetism in Double Perovskite La2Ni1−xMn1+xO6 Insulating Thin Films

LUNCH BREAK (no lunch provided)

15:00-15:45

Invited talk "IYPT 2019: Did you make a mistake in your Ph.D.? Hidden lessons we

can learn from the discovery of chemical elements"

Rosendo Pou (ICMol, Lecturer at Universidad de Valencia)

Marco Bianchini (Catalonia Institute for Energy Research - IREC)

Sergi Martín Rio (ICMAB-CSIC)

Development of transparent conducting oxides thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition

Friday 7th June 2019

Synthesis & Characterization

Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2)

Rotational Polarization Nanotopologies in BaTiO3-SrTiO3 Superlattices

Saúl Estandía Rodríguez (ICMAB-CSIC)

Atomic Layer Deposition: from molecular chemistry to thin films of functional complex oxides

Mathieu Mirjolet (ICMAB-CSIC)

Assessment of carbon contamination in MoS2 grown by MOCVD using Mo(CO)6 and (CH3-CH2)2S

precursors

Christian Schäfer (ICN2)

Ferromagnetic Resonance and Inverse Spin Hall Effect in Permalloy/Pt bilayers

Pengmei Yu (ICMAB-CSIC)

Control of morphology and polymorphism in organic semiconductor thin films

Francesco Silvestri (ICMAB-CSIC)

Coffee break & Poster Session (Posters 14-28)

Dopant induced structural and electrical changes at the C60F48/pentacene interface

Adrián Tamayo Serra (ICMAB-CSIC)

15:45-16:00

16:00-16:15

16:15-16:30

16:30-17:00

17:00-17:15

17:15-17:30

17:30-17:45

17:45-18:00

18:00-18:20

Pol Febrer Calabozo (ICN2)

Implementation of the hydrodynamic heat transport model for nanoscale complex geometries using

finite elements

Albert Beardo Ricol (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Coffee break

Theory & Simulation

Exploring nanoporous graphene as a membrane

Epitaxial Thin Films of La2CoMnO6 and La2NiMnO6 Ordered Double Perovskites by Polymer Assisted

Deposition

Hailin Wang (ICMAB-CSIC)

Nanomaterials - part 2

Glass transition in thin film ultrastable glasses: Analyzing the bulk transformation

Ana Vila Costa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Inverse spin Hall effect in the metallic oxide SrVO3

Marc Font Gual (ICMAB-CSIC)

Tunable Circular Dichroism and Valley Polarization in the Modified Haldane Model

Award ceremony

Marc Vila Tusell (ICN2)

Analytical modeling of skyrmion-extended defect interaction

Leonardo Gónzalez-Gómez (Departament de Física, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

INVITED SPEAKERS

MARC CASTELLARNAU MANAGING DIRECTOR AT FUELIUM

For the past 15+ years Marc Castellarnau has been

working on the development and application of

microanalytical devices for microbiology and

immunobiology, including sample treatment, cell

sorting, cell characterization, and immunoassays by

means of electrical and optical methods. He also worked

in the implementation of self-powered and autonomous

platforms for analytical applications. This background

attracted him to Fuelium project, where he started as

CTO to become the current Managing Director. He holds

a B.Sc. in Physics, a M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering, and

a PhD in Bioengineering from University of Barcelona. He

also did several postdocs at different institutions (IBEC,

CSIC, and MIT), and works as a consultant (Ateknea) and

in technology transfer (ISGlobal).

JOFFRE GUTIERREZ TENURED SCIENTIST AT ICMAB-CSIC

Joffre Gutierrez´s main research topic for almost 14

years has been superconductivity. In particular, the

interactions between microstructure and vortex matter.

During his PhD at ICMAB (2003-2008), he studied vortex

matter in YBCO coated conductors grown by chemical

solution deposition. During this period, he stayed in 2005

at the STC in Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA), and

during 2006 - 2007 at the Cambridge University in UK.

In 2008 he moved to the Institute of Nanoscale Physics

and Chemistry at the KU Leuven (Belgium), to study

vortex dynamics in clean superconductors. In 2010 he

started leading the research line of nanoscale vortex

matter and dynamics, a task he would undertake until

2015. Additionally, he took part in launching the

European networking project NanoSC to promote

student mobility.

In 2015 he moved back to ICMAB to bring his experience

on probe microscopy, electrical transport

characterization and device fabrication to the field of

optoelectronics and thermoelectricity.

In 2016 he has moved back to the field of applied

superconductivity within ICMAB, where they launched a

consortium between the Institut de Ciència de Materials

de Barcelona, the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies,

ALBA synchrotron, the Universitat Politécnica de

Barcelona and CERN, to take the challenge of developing

a new technology for the future of particle accelerators.

ANNA MAY MASNOU COMMUNICATION & OUTREACH OFFICER

AT ICMAB-CSIC

Anna May Masnou studied Chemical Engineering at the

Universitat de Barcelona (UB), and continued with a

MSc in Chemical Engineering at the Universitat Rovira i

Virgili (URV), Tarragona. She then did a PhD in Materials

Science and Technology at the UB (2014), with three

stays abroad in Japan, France and California. After her

PhD, she spent 1.5 years as Project Manager in

CETAQUA, a Technological Center, and was teaching at

the UB at the same time. She obtained a Juan de la

Cierva grant and started a postdoc at the ICMAB. During

her second year of postdoc, she coursed a Postgraduate

course in Science Communication. She is currently the

ICMAB Communication and Outreach Officer since April

2017.

SALVADOR FERRER SCIENTIFIC ASSISTANT AT ALBA SYNCHROTRON

Salvador Ferrer is a physicist. He holds a PhD from the

Autonomous University of Madrid. He did a postdoc at

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. He had been working for

16.5 years at ESRF as beamline scientist and head of the

Surface Science group, and 7 years at Alba as Research

Director during the construction of the first seven

beamlines. At present, he is a Scientific Assistant at

Alba. His fields of interest are Surface Science and

nanomagnetism.

SERGIO VALENZUELA

ICREA RESEARCH PROFESSOR AND GROUP LEADER AT ICN2

Prof. Sergio Valenzuela obtained his PhD in physics in

2001 at the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)

and held research positions at Harvard University and

the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Since

July 2008 Prof. Valenzuela has been an ICREA research

professor and leader of the ICN2 Physics and

Engineering of Nanoelectronic Devices Group.

His research is focused on the unique properties of

materials with nanoscale dimensions, motivated by

both their intrinsic scientific interest and their potential

for advanced electronic applications. His work

encompasses spintronics, quantum computation with

superconducting circuits and nanoelectromechanical

systems (NEMS). Together with his collaborators, he has

pioneered the use of non-local devices to study the spin

Hall effect of thermopiles to isolate the magnon drag in

ferromagnetic materials, and implemented novel qubit

control and spectroscopy methods.

Prof. Valenzuela was awarded the 2001 Giambiagi prize

and the 2009 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Magnetism

for his contributions to the field of spintronics, as well

as an ERC Starting Grant in 2012. He has authored over

50 articles (Nature, Science, Reviews of Modern Physics,

Nature Materials, Nature Physics, Physical Review

Letters, among others), three patents, and five books or

book chapters.

ROSENDO POU ICMOL, LECTURER AT UNIVERSIDAD DE VALENCIA

Rosendo Pou Amérigo (Valencia, 1966) obtained his

degree with honors mention and posterior doctorate in

Chemistry at Universitat de València (UV). He is a

member of the Unidad de Investigación de Química

Teórica at the Instituto de Ciencia Molecular (ICMol),

where he has worked mainly in quantum-chemical

characterization of electroactive molecular systems.

During his professional career, he has been mainly

focused on teaching innovation techniques and

teaching quality. For this reason, he coordinated the

pilot project of educational innovation for the European

convergence of the faculty of chemistry. In addition,

from 2006 to 2012 he collaborated as an external

assessor for the institutional quality assessment

committee of the office for the university quality system

in Castilla y León. Moreover, he has been, since 2012

until last year, the director of Universitat de València’s

quality unit. He won the second prize from Universidad

Europea de Madrid (UEM) for teaching innovation in

2008. He was also awarded the Premio a la Calidad e

Innovación Docente 2010, granted by the UV for the

project "El teatro es pura química; la química es puro

teatro" which approaches science to high school

students and is still active.

LIST OF POSTERS

1.

Christina Stefani

Mechanically soft domain walls in ferroelectrics

2.

Xiangyang Lou

Enhanced arsenic removal by using sponge-loaded superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPION)

3.

Noa Varela Domínguez

Pulse-heating nanocalorimetric studies in CoO thin films

4.

Milena Tomić

Surface modified tungsten oxide nanowires and its application in gas sensing

5.

Sohini Sinha

Effectively designed Donor-Acceptor-Donor system containing carborane derivatives for two-photon absorption

(TPA) application

6.

Diana García Franco

Novel synthetic route and characterization for AMO3 (A= Ba, Sr and M = Ti, Hf, Zr) and BaM2O6 (M= Ta and Nb)

nanoparticles

7.

Irena Spasojević

Molecular functionalization of ferroelectric oxide surfaces

8.

Ivan Caño Prades

Influence of rare earth substitution on photoactive BiFe1-xCoxO3 thin films prepared by solution processing

9.

Miquel Torras

Fast microwave-assisted polyol synthesis of silver nanoparticles with controlled size

10.

Martí Raya Moreno

Thermal conductivity of semiconductor nanowires with bulk-unconventional phases

11.

Lluc Sendra Molins

Thermal boundary resistance from hydrodynamics model

12.

Josep Castell Queralt

Micromagnetic simulations of skyrmion dynamics in presence of linear defects

13.

Arsalan Akhtar

AiiDA Workflow for High-throughput computation of Formation Energy

14.

Sumithra Yasaswini Srinivasan

C. elegans as a model to assess cardiac function - the case of polypyrrole nanoparticles

15.

Eddi Pradas Gracia, David Montpeyó Garcia-Moreno

PGA-Protein conjugation of Velaglucerase as novel methodology for increasing the efficiency and efficacy

of Gaucher Disease treatment by ERT

16.

Zhongrui Luo

Evaluation of the nano-bio interaction between superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles and Caenorhabditis

elegans

17.

Irene Anton-Sales

Nanocellulose from bacteria as an ocular bandage material

18.

José Piers Jurado

Organic thermoelectrics a solar energy harvester

19.

Marta Delgà-Fernández

Raman spectroscopy as a tool for studying the graphene - ionic liquids interaction

20.

Michele Pigliapochi

Quasi-adiabatic Nanocalorimetry by Demodulation of Rapidly Oscillating Pulse

21.

Marta Rodríguez López

Organic molecular vapour-deposition of glasses under an electric field

22.

Mayte Gómez Castaño

Tunable index metamaterials made by bottom-up approaches

23.

Patricia Ramirez Priego

Low-cost point-of-care biosensor device for on-site tuberculosis diagnosis in developing countries

24.

Yunwei Sheng

Photovoltaic Effects of Insulating Layer on LuMnO3 Ferroelectric Single Crystal

25.

Samuel Poblador Cester

Physical Characterization of Filamentary Structures in TiN/Ti/HfO2/W Memristor Devices

26.

Eulàlia Pujades-Otero

Interactions between conducting additives and redox couples dispersed in flow cell electrolytes

27.

Monalisa Chakraborty

Design optimization of low cost, highly efficient aqueous Zinc-iodide flow battery

28.

Adara Babuji

Impact of substitutional groups in the interfacial doping of organic semiconductors

ROUND TABLE: 'BEYOND THE LAB '

L A U R A D Í A ZPRESIDENT OF SCIENTISTS DATING FORUM

AND BIOMEDICINE PHD RESEARCHER

SciDF is a non-profit association formed by younginternational interdisciplinary members, includingscientists, business people, lawyers, communicationsspecialists, philosophers and economists.SciDF aims at involving the non-scientist membersof society, scientists and politicians topromote science as a common good asset.

L A U R E N T L A D É P Ê C H ECO-DIRECTOR OF PINT OF SCIENCE SPAIN

AND NEUROSCIENCE PHD RESEARCHER

A L E J A N D R O R A M O SCOL·LECTIU DE DOCTORANDS EN LLUITA

AND BIOCHEMISTRY PHD RESEARCHER

M A R Í A T E N O R I OCHAIR OF SOCIETAT CATALANA DE NANOCIÈNCIA I

NANOTECNOLOGIA AND PHYSICS PHD RESEARCHER

PoS Festival aims to offer interesting and funny speechesabout the latest scientific research, with a formataccesible for all the public. We want to offer a platformwhich allows people to discuss the research with thosewho are taking part on it. PoS is the non-lucrativeorganization directed by volunteer people and created bya scientific community of posdocs and PhDs in 2012.

SCN2 is an independent, non-lucrative and scientificassociation whose purpose is acting as a channel for thecollaboration and meeting of the nanoscience andnanotechnology cluster in Catalonia. By building a network ofexcellence among the scientific and academic sector, thecompanies and the society, we want to promote the research,complement the academic formation and stimulate thetechnology transfer and knowledge among them.

A discussion among young volunteer scientists going beyond their work in the laband taking part in outreach activities, non-lucrative associations and activism. 

Chair: Roger Ponce (SCN2)

Col·lectiu de Doctorand/es en Lluita is an associationformed by predoctoral researchers of differentdisciplines whose purpose is to defend the collectiveworker’s rights. We are co-working with a union inorder to guarantee that the rights of the PhDcandidates as a workers are respected and toimprove the precarious conditions of our collective.