Andrés Martín Cid, Graduate Student from BCmaterials was awarded in this year E-MRS (European Materials Research Society) Spring meeting for his oral presentation, entitled “Tetragonal Ce-based Ce-Sm(Fe, Co, Ti) 12 alloys for permanent magnets”. He received the award within the Symposium E (Substitution of critical raw materials: synthesis, characterization and processing of new advanced materials in optoelectronic and magnetic devices). The meeting was held in Lile, France between May 2^nd and 5^th 2016

Nanotechnology journal has chosen a BCMaterials article for the front page of its volume 27, number 17 published on April 29^th of 2016.

The title of the publication is "High-yield fabrication of 60 nm Permalloy nanodiscs in well-defined magnetic vortex state for biomedical applications" written by the BCMaterials authors Maite Goiriena-Goikoetxea, Alfredo García-Arribas and

Yesterday the Basque Government gave an acknowledgement to ACTIMAT project, where BCMaterials takes part.

Yesterday, May 5^th Daniel Salazar and Andrés Martin talked at the E symposium: Substitution of critical raw materials: synthesis, characterization and processing of new advanced materials in optoelectronic and magnetic devices of the E-MRS Spring Meeting.      

Prof. Barandiarán, scientific director of BCMaterials, was yesterday on the radio talking about the NOVAMAG project.

Last friday Prof. Tae-sik Yoon from Myongji University (Korea) gave a talk about "Nanoparticles and their assenbly" in the Basque Country University (UPV/EHU)

Innobasque, the Basque Agency for Innovation has published a list made by the Science, Technology and Innovation Plan Euskadi 2020 with the most relevant 46 people in the basque scientific system. Jose Manuel Barandiarán, Scientific Director of BCMaterials and Maria Isabel Arriortua, Senior Research Asociate from BCMaterials as well have been chosen for this list which identifies peopl

Daniel Salazar and Andrés Martín will attend this  2016 MRS Spring Meeting Symposium which will be held in Lile, France, from 2^nd to 6^th of May. Their talk will be at the E symposium: Substitution of critical raw materials: synthesis, characterization and processing of new advanced materials in optoelectronic and magnetic devices, on May 5. Daniel will make his invited talk, titled “Coercivity enhancement of Dy-free and Nd-lean Nd-Fe-B magnets by grain boundary engineering” at 14:00 and Andrés will make his, titled “Tetragonal Ce-

Prof. Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez from the Department of Physics of University of Minho and BCMaterials member will talk about “Smart and functional polymer based materials for environmental, biomedical and energy applications” on thursday, 7^th of april in the Seminar Room 115, Hallwachsstr. 3 (HAL) of Dresden University (Technische Universität Drescen). The speach will be at 13:00 and it will last an hour.

The NOVAMAG project, lead by BCMaterials will start on April 1^st. The kick-off meeting will be between 7^th and 8^th of April in the Main Library of the Leioa Campus of the Basque Country University (UPV/EHU).