Andrés Castellanos and Mar García-Hernández, in their laboratory

The ICMM gets 2 ERC Synergy Grants to develop the electronics for the future

Mar García-Hernández and Andrés Castellanos-Gómez will use their experience in two-dimensional materials on two international projects worth 10 and 14 million euros, respectively. García-Hernández's project proposes a revolution in electronics, creating a novel metamaterials platform that opens the door to new devices with lower energy consumption (and also quantum devices at room temperature); while Castellanos will develop ultra-thin and flexible electronics that can be integrated into rough or curved surfaces, such as skin or other biological structures.

Giant Thermosalient Effect in a Molecular Single Crystal: Dynamic Transformations and Mechanistic Insights

Mohammad Afsar Uddin*, Raúl Martín, Sergio Gámez-Valenzuela, Marcelo Echeverri, M. Carmen Ruiz Delgado, Enrique Gutiérrez Puebla, Angeles Monge, Berta Gómez-Lor*

JACS

The results of this study highlight the crucial role of a soft and flexible structural configuration combined with a highly compact but loosely bound supramolecular structure in the design of thermoelastic materials.

Single Site W(0) versus Re(I)-Dipyridophenazine- Based Conjugated Porous Polymer for CO₂ Photoreduction

Ángela Matarín, Félix Sánchez, Laura Collado, Mariam Barawi, Victor A. de la Peña O'Shea, Avelina Arnanz*, Marta Liras*, Marta Iglesias*

SMALL structures

Characterization of CPPs-M: a) FT-IR; b) 13C-NMR; c) N2 isotherm; d) TGA, and e,f) SEM images of CPP-Re and CPP-W, respectively. Note that the data corresponding to CPP-W appear in green and CPP-Re appears in pink.

A Multimetal Approach for the Reticulation of Iridium into Metal–Organic Framework Building Units

Raluca Loredana Vasile, M. Carmen Borrallo-Aniceto, Fátima Esteban-Betegón, Alina A. Skorynina, Miguel Gomez-Mendoza, Victor A. de la Peña O’Shea, Enrique Gutiérrez Puebla, Marta Iglesias, M. Ángeles Monge, & Felipe Gándara*

JACS

Noble metal elements are ubiquitous in our everyday life, from medical applications to electronic devices and synthetic chemistry. Iridium is one of the least abundant elements, and despite its scarcity, it remains essential for efficient and active catalytic processes. Consequently, the development of heterogeneous catalysts with the presence of active iridium sites is of enormous interest as it leads to the improvement of their recyclability and reusability. Here, we demonstrate a strategy to incorporate

Nanoflores sobre microplásticos. Vista de microscopio.

ICMM researchers eliminate microplastics from water with iron oxide nanoflowers

Research staff has developed a green and energy-efficient process to eliminate microplastics from cosmetics. The method removes contaminants from the water and degrade them until they disappear, which has great applications in waste treatment plants.

2D covalent organic framework via catenation

Thirumurugan Prakasam, Sudhir Kumar Sharma, Florent Ravaux, Farah Benyettou, Matteo Lusi, Varghese Sabu, Philippe Bazin, Thomas Delclos, Ramesh Jagannathan, Jamie Whelan, Mohamad El-Roz, Mark A. Olson*, Mahmoud Abdellatief, Obieda S. Mudraj, Felipe Gándara*, Ali Trabolsi*

Chem

A structurally distinct COF with mechanically interlocked components

Trapping an Elusive Fe(IV)-Superoxo Intermediate Inside a Self-Assembled Nanocage in Water at Room Temperature

Rahul Gera, Puja De, Kundan K. Singh, Sergio A. V. Jannuzzi, Aisworika Mohanty, Lucia Velasco, Kulbir, Pankaj Kumar, J. F. Marco, Kalaivanan Nagarajan, Carlos Pecharromán, P. M. Rodríguez-Pascual, Serena DeBeer, Dooshaye Moonshiram*, Sayam Sen Gupta*, Jyotishman Dasgupta*

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Trapping an Elusive Fe(IV)-Superoxo Intermediate Inside a Self-Assembled Nanocage in Water at Room Temperature

Chemically Tailored Metal-Organic Frameworks for Enhanced Capture of Short- and Long-Chain Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances from Water

Edward Loukopoulos, Sergio Marugán-Benito, Dionysios Raptis, Emmanuel Tylianakis, George E. Froudakis, Andreas Mavrandonakis*, Ana E. Platero-Prats*

Advanced Functional Materials

a) View of the main framework and pore systems in DUT-67 (left) and MOF-808 (right). Color coding: Zr polyhedral = blue, C = grey, O = red. Potentially available positions for ligand functionalization within the inorganic nodes are depicted as dark red spheres. H atoms have been omitted for clarity. b─d) PXRD data, 1H NMR spectra, and N2 isotherms (recorded at 77 K) of the pristine and functionalized DUT-67 and MOF-808 materials.

Iron salicylaldehydate conjugated metal–organic framework for quasi solid-state supercapacitor

Abdul Khayum Mohammed, Ajmal Pandikassala, Pilar Pena Sánchez, Safa Abdullah Gaber, Stefano Canossa, Maria Kurian, Gigi Xavier, Yao He, Felipe Gándara, Sreekumar Kurungot, Dinesh Shetty

Chemical Engineering Journal

A novel salicylaldehydate linked c-MOF (Fe-Tp) was synthesized through a facile mechano-synthesis. The Fe-Tp showed excellent chemical stability in high-concentration acid (10 M) and outstanding long-term stability in capacitive performance in acid electrolyte (36,000 cycles with 80 % retention of initial capacitance).

Strong Electrostatic Control of Excitonic Features in MoS2 by a Free-Standing Ultrahigh-κ Ferroelectric Perovskite

Thomas Pucher, Sergio Puebla, Victor Zamora, Estrella Sánchez Viso, Victor Rouco, Carlos Leon, Mar Garcia-Hernandez, Jacobo Santamaria, Carmen Munuera, Andres Castellanos-Gomez

Advanced Functional Materials

Single-metal-adatom catalysts for the synthesis of 2D carbon nitride metal-coordinated networks

Jorge Manuel Zamalloa-Serrano, Jesús Ignacio Mendieta-Moreno, José María Gómez-Fernández, María Francisca López, Carlos Sánchez-Sánchez, José Ignacio Martínez, José Ángel Martín-Gago, Irene Palacio

Carbon

Stable, Impermeable Hexacyanoferrate Anolyte for Nonaqueous Redox Flow Batteries

Yuyue Zhao, Sambasiva R. Bheemireddy, Diqing YueZhou Yu, Mohammad Afsar Uddin, Haoyu Liu, Zhiguang Li, Xiaoting Fang, Xingyi Lyu, Garvit Agarwal, Zhangxing Shi, Lily A. Robertson, Lei Cheng, Tao Li, Rajeev S. Assary, Venkat Srinivasan, Susan J. Babinec, Zhengcheng Zhang, Jeffrey S. Moore, Ilya A. Shkrob, Xiaoliang Wei, Lu Zhang

ACS Energy Letters

Ion pairing of metal complexes with organic counterions can be effective for developing promising redoxmers for nonaqueous flow batteries.

Enhanced Electrocatalysis on Copper Nanostructures: Role of the Oxidation State in Sulfite Oxidation

Esperanza Fernández-García, Pablo Merino, Nerea González-Rodríguez, Lidia Martínez, María del Pozo, Javier Prieto, Elías Blanco, Gonzalo Santoro, Carmen Quintana, María Dolores Petit-Domínguez*, Elena Casero, Luis Vázquez*, José I. Martínez, José A. Martín-Gago

ACS Catalysis

Enhanced Electrocatalysis on Copper Nanostructures: Role of the Oxidation State in Sulfite Oxidation

Impact of the Li-loss mechanisms inherent to the physical vapor deposition of LiCoO2 cathode on its electrochemical performance

M.J. Ramirez-Peral, J. Diaz-Sanchez, A. Galindo, M.L. Crespillo, H.P. van der Meulen, C. Morant, C. Polop, E. Vasco*

Energy Storage Materials

Impact of the Li-loss mechanisms inherent to the physical vapor deposition of LiCoO2 cathode on its electrochemical performance

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The ICMM gets 2 ERC Synergy Grants to develop the electronics for the future
Miguel Muñoz Rojo joins the Young Academy of Europe (YAE)
The ICMM holds the Workshop of the Spanish Network on Spintronics
The ICMM launches the I day on Materials Science, aimed at university students
Researchers create a new material that doubles the performance of lithium batteries, key for electric vehicles