Summer Internships 2015 announced!
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.
Invited speakers at 5th Zing Bionanomaterials Conference
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
MagnetotactCourse of operators for installations using radiations
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.
BCMaterials oral presentation @ 5th Zing Bionanomaterials Conference
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-Arribas1,2, A. Svalov2 and M.L.
BCMaterials @ TMS 2015
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).
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Meeting of the International Scientific Advisory Committee of BCMaterials
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.
BCMaterials director invited speaker at TMS 2015

Nerea Gil, primer premio en el concurso de fotografía científica de SGIKER
La imagen obtenida por Nerea Gil durante su proyecto de Máster en BCMaterials, “Tentáculos de poliestireno”, ha resultado recientemente galardonada como ganadora del área de Ciencias y Tecnología de Materiales del VI Concurso de Fotografía Científica de la UPV/EHU.


BCMaterials researchers @ ImagineNano 2015
Meet our researchers at ImagineNano 2015 on March 13th (16:45) in Bilbao, and learn about our latest Bio&Med advances contacting Maite Goiriena.
Permalloy Nanodisks for Biomedical Applications
M. Goiriena-Goikoetxea1, J. Feuchtwanger2, M.L. Fdez-Gubieda1,2 and A. García-Arribas1,2
Prof. Hariharan Srikanth elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)
Prof. Hariharan Srikanth, one of the closer collaborators of BCMaterials, has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) by the APS Council in November 2014. He is recognized for his important contributions to the experimental studies of magnetization dynamics and novel physics in complex nanocomposites.