Last Monday 20th of July the magnetic materials research groups from Basque Country, Cantabria and Oviedo met up in Unquera. They were received by the mayor of Val de San Vicente and the culture councillor. These groups, which have been working together for more than thirty years on joint projects about magnetic materials and their use, have focused their last years research on nanomaterials with biomedical uses and the use of these new materials on comunication technologies and new sensors.

Several members of BCMaterials took part in the 20^th International Conference on Magnetism celebrated in Barcelona between the 5^th and the 10^th of July

  Last Thursday, 2nd of July the Associate Head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the MIT, Caroline Ross visited BCMaterials in relation to a collaboration between the two institutes in a patterning Project. The project focuses on the study of  self-assembly of block copolymers and developing of methods for templating self-assembly in order to form well-organized structures useful in nanoscale fabrication and devices.  

The new Microsense 2 Tesla Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (VSM) installed at BCMaterials is a versatile instrument of high resolution (1 µemu) large temperature scan (77-1000K) and easy operation. The instrument is aimed to provide quick and reliable data on all magnetic materials synthesized and processed in BCMaterials, as Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys, Magnetic Nanoparticles, Nanostructured Magnetic Materials, Permanent Magnets  and Advanced Magnetic Materials for Sensors.

When: 8 weeks: June 8th – July 30th Who: We are looking for motivated students in their final years (3rd and 4rd) preferable in Physics, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering and Electrical Engineering. What: Main topics are:

• Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys (MSMA). 
Bulk, single crystal and thin films materials for macro-, micro- and nano-actuators.
• Smart Polymers and composites.

María Luisa Fernández-Gubieda is one of the invited speakers at 5th Zing Bionanomaterials Conference on April 26th (9:50) in Carvoeiro, Portugal.

Hyperthermia response and citotoxity studies of magnetite nanoparticles from Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense

Magnetotact

The Spanish Nuclear Safety Center (CSN), through PROINSA, a training certified company, will give a course to ESS Bilbao staff for obtaining licenses for radioactive facilities supervision. BCMaterials will host the 56 hours course that will take place from April the 27th to May the 12th.

Meet our researchers at 5th Zing Bionanomaterials Conference on April 26th (11:50) in Algarve (Portugal), and learn about our latest Bio&Med advances contacting Maite Goiriena.

Permalloy nanodisks prepared by Colloidal Lithography for Biomedical Applications

M. Goiriena-Goikoetxea¹, A. García-Arribas^1,2, A. Svalov² and M.L.

José Manuel Barandiaran co-organized the Characterization Techniques for Magnetic Materials Workshop on March 15th, at Orlando, Florida, USA, in which renowned experts in the field presented the fundamentals of structural, compositional and functional characterization techniques applied to magnetic materials, with great success (19 participants, 3 organizers and 8 speakers). You can download th

The ISAC met last friday to review the activity of BCMaterials and steer the future direction of the scientific activity The ISAC is composed by:

• Quentin Pankhurst (Institute Bio-Medical Engineering, Univ. College, London)
• Antonio Hernando (Instituto de Magnetismo Aplicado (Instituto de Magnetismo Aplicado, University Complutense, Madrid)
• Caroline A Ross (Dep.