The RSC Chemical Nanoscience & Nanotechnology group of the Royal Society of Chemistry has selected as the first article of the week for the year 2025 the paper entitled “Insights into the Electroactive Impact of Magnetic Nanostructures in PVDF Composites via Small-Angle Neutron Scattering”, published in the journal ‘Nanoscale’.

This article has been written by BCMaterials researchers together with scientists from the Paul Scherrer Institut (Switzerland) and the University of Minho (Portugal).

A contribution from BCMaterials and colleagues “Laser-Treated Screen-Printed Carbon Electrodes for Electrochemiluminescence Imaging”, has been selected as cover of Chemical & Biomedical Imaging 2024 2 (12), 835-841. Congratulations to the authors.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/cbmi.4c00070

A contribution from BCMaterials and colleagues “Eco-friendly, sustainable, and safe energy storage: a nature-inspired materials paradigm shift”, has been selected as cover of Materials Advances Magazine (Mater. Adv., 2024,5, 7534-7547). Congratulations to the authors.

https://doi.org/10.1039/D4MA00363B

A contribution from BCMaterials and colleagues “Printed Memristors: An Overview of Ink, Materials, Deposition Techniques, and Applications”, has been selected as cover of the Advanced Electronic Materials, 10: 2470032. Congratulations to the authors.

https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202470032

A contribution from BCMaterials and colleagues “Enhancing Single-Layer WSe2 Light Emission in Perylene-Doped Polymer Films through Efficient Energy Transfer”, has been selected as cover of the Advanced Functional Materials magazine. Adv. Funct.

A contribution from BCMaterials and colleagues “Conductive carbon fabric generation from single-step upcycling of textile waste”, has been selected as cover of the RSC Sustainable Energy & Fuels magazine. 2024,8, 3844-3853. Congratulations to the authors.

https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SE01722B

BCMaterials has presented its 2023 Annual Activity Report. The document includes the highlights of the center's scientific activity during the past year, which continues on an upward trajectory in terms of the number and impact of publications, as well as the quantity and entity of the ongoing research projects. Last year BCMaterials had 65 ongoing projects with European, Spanish and Basque funding. Three of them were new important European projects.

BCMaterials researcher Dr. Carmen Rial has been selected, along with Prof. Dr. M. Mounir Bou-Ali from the University of Mondragon (Spain), as Guest Editor for the special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360) titled “Conductive and Magnetic Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites”.

The Chemical Record, a journal of the Chemical Society of Japan, has published the Special Issue ‘Chemistry in Ukraine’, coordinated by the Ikerbasque Research Professor Stefan Wuttke in collaboration with important Ukranian scientists from different academical institutions.

A contribution from BCMaterials and colleagues “Cryo-Electrohydrodynamic Jetting of Aqueous Silk Fibroin Solutions”, has been selected as a cover of the ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering magazine. 2024, 10, 3, 1843–1855. Congratulations to the authors.

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.3c00851