BCMaterials is organizing a Symposium at the EMRS Spring Meeting from 25th to 29th of March, devoted to academic and industrial partners working on the substitution and recycling of critical raw materials (CRMs) in electronic, magnetic and energy harvesting devices. The symposium provides an interdisciplinary and intersectorial platform to discuss about CRM alternatives from the modelling, synthesis, characterization, processing and device integration viewpoints.

El pasado 19 de diciembre, el Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu, junto con la consejera de Educación Cristina Uriarte y la rectora de la UPV/EHU Nekane Balluerka, ha visitado esta mañana la nueva sede del centro de investigación de excelencia BCMaterials -Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, en el Parque Científico de la UPV/EHU, en Leioa.

Invited talk on piezo- and magnetoelectric materials and poster presentations on Li-ion batteries and point-of-care devices at the Fall MRS Meeting in Boston, US. Great time in a great meeting!

Also an invited seminar at the Boston University. Thanks Catherine Klapperich and her group for the kind invitation and nice discussion!

Invited seminar on “Tuning structure and active response in polymer-based magnetoelectric materials” at the Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, in Prague. Truly thanks to Andrey Shukurov for the kind invitation and the great time. See you in our place soon! …and nothing like visiting beautiful Prague with Niko! Great city!  

Lively presentations and discussion on Innovation and Technology Transfer Workshop, 9/10/2019 at the University of Minho, Portugal . Thanks a lot for the nice invitation and the really interesting day!

And the best poster award goes to…… A. Valverde, R. Fernandez de Luis, R. Gonçalves, M. M. Silva, A. Fidalgo, C. M. Costa and S, Lanceros-Mendez for innovation in battery  separator membranes based on MOF´S! Congratulations!...in the week in which the work on Lithium-ion batteries was awarded with the Nobel prize!

Lanceros-Mendez has given an invited talk in the area of printed batteries at the International Conference Mission 10000: Batteries, International Nanotechnology Laboratory. The perfect event for meeting friends and colleagues, discussing future research plans, great innovation and success…..

A contribution from BCMaterials and colleagues, "Ionic-Liquid-Based Electroactive Polymer Composites for Muscle Tissue Engineering", was selected as journal cover in ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 20191102649-2658. Congratulations to the authors. DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.9b00566

Invited talk on Advanced Manufacturing Tecnologies for Smart Sensors and Actuators at the SPIE meeting on Security and Defence, Strasbourg, France, 9/9/2019-12/9/2019.

Invited talk on “Polymer-based Magnetoelectric Materials for Sensors, Actuators and Energy Harvesting: Materials, applications, challenges” at the 3rd Energy Harvesting Society Meeting 2019 in Falls Church, VA, USA. Really great conference, shaping the future in this interesting and growing area!