 | We say goodbay to Arvid comming from the Staubitz group (https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/staubitz, Bremen, Germany) who stayed with us for a 3-month as Erasmus+ bachelor stage. It was great to host you in the group! |
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 | Araceli and Alba (MOReFun group) have enjoyed the POLYMAT SPOTLIGHT 2024 in Donostia. Thanks Koke for this great symposium!! |
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| Dr. Campaña and Prof. Cuerva from MOReFUN group visited the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Science in Warsaw, hosted by Prof. Gryko. Thank you Daniel for the hospitality and the great discussion |
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| We say goodbye to Hanen Ben Mohamed, visiting PhD student from the University of Monastir (Tunisia), who carried out an Erasmus+ stay in our lab. |
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| The Nanographout and MOReFun teams have participated in the XIX Escuela Nacional de Materiales Moleculares, held in Almuñécar (Granada) from the 12th to the 14th of March |
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| We say goodbye to Dr. Samuel Delgado, postodoctoral researcher in our team who is joining the IPNA-CSIC. Best of luck in his new position! |
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| It was a pleasure to host Prof. Santhosh Babu Sukumaran from CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (India) during his visit at University of Granada. Such a great presentation and scientific discussion! |
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| Carlos and Araceli have participated in the 3rd Japanese-Spanish Symposium on Organic Synthesis in Donostia. Thanks to the organizers for a great symposium full of wonderful memories!! |
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| NANOGRAPHOUT and MOREFUN memberes have participated in the European Researchers' Night. What a great time bringing Science closer to a general audience! |
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| The NANOGRAPHOUT and MORFUN groups have participated in the International Workshop on Spin Research in Graphene Nanostructures (SPRING'23). |
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| The NANOGRAPHOUT group has presented some of the latest research in the CURO-π5 Symposium with a contributed lecture by Dr. Araceli G. Campaña and several poster communications. Amazing Science in a beatiful location with great company |
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| Sandra and Samuel shared some of the results of our group at the “XXXIX Reunión Bienal de Química de la RSEQ” that took place in Zaragoza from the 25th to the 29th of June |
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| Today we say goodbay to John from the Kivala group (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg) who stayed with us for a 2-month Erasmus+ predoctoral stage. It was great to host you here. |
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| The NANOGRAPHOUT and MORFUn groups have participated in the XVIII Simposio de Jóvenes Investigadores Químicos held in Sevilla, 21 - 24 November, 2022. Marcos D. Codesal from our group presented some of his PhD work in rotaxanes. |
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| The NANOGRAPHOUT group has participated in the X Mediterranean Organic Chemistry Meeting (X - REQOMED) held in Valencia, 19 - 21 October, 2022. Carlos Moreno, postdoctoral researcher in our group, presented some of the results from his previous postdoc at the Juríček group . |
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| Prof. Michael M. Haley was visiting the University of Granada and enjoing the city, after his extraordinary and wonderful talk ” The Interplay Between Antiaromaticity and Diradical Character in Diarenoindacenes and Diindenoarenes. Many thanks for coming!! |
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| Federico Villalobos participated with a poster contribution at On-Surface Synthesis (OSS-22) congress held in Sant Feliu de Guíxols with some member's of esisna group. |
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| We were participating at the European Researchers' Night and enjoying all the activities. Congratulations to the organizing comittee for this unforgettable experience, full of science! |
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| Today we say goodbay to Dr. Miguel Ángel Medel after his PhD. It was so great to have you on board! We will truly miss you!! |
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| Dr. Araceli G. Campaña was invited speaker at the 13th Spanish-Italian Symposium on Organic Chemistry in Tarragona. Miguel Ángel and Ana were enjoying the congress. |
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| The NANOGRAPHOUT group has been presenting some of the latest results at the XXXVIII biennial meeting of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) celebrated in Granada, from June 27 to June 30. |
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| Poster session in the Bienal GEQOR in Granada. A lot of wonderful encounters and nice discussion |
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 | It was a pleasure to meet Prof. Dorota Gryko and Prof. Daniel T. Gryko in their visit to Granada |
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| Delighted to be at The 19th international symposium on novel aromatic compounds (ISNA-19) Looking forward to a week of amaizing science with brilliant, top level scientists from around the whole world! |
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| We have the pleasure to celebrate the Spanish Thematic Network OsMolSys here, in Granada, full of inspiring talks |
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 | Our PhD student Miguel A. Medel, co-supervised with Dr. Sara P. Morcillo, passed his PhD thesis defense!!! Well done Miguel! Congratulations to the new Dr.! |
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| Farewell to Dr. Juan Pedro Mora, postodoctoral reasearcher in our team who is leaving to join Diego Peña's group. Best of luck in his new position! |
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| Some members of Nanographout and Mor_Fun group at XVIII Escuela Nacional de Materiales Moleculares. Great days learning from excellent scientists and making friends! Amazing city and programme! Thanks a lot! |
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| Ermelinda Maçôas was visiting the University of Granada. Thanks a lot for coming!!! |
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| IV Simposium of the Unidad de Excelencia de Química Aplicada a Biomedicina y Medioambiente with four great speakers! Looking forward to a great morning full of science!! |
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| Some people from the NANOGRAPHOUT team participated in the XVI Simposio de Investigadores Jóvenes, held Alcalá de Henares. Thanks to the organizers for such a great initiative, full of inspiring talks!! |
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 | We are hiring!!! Available Postdoctoral position in Organic Synthesis at our group. Check the attached pdf document for more information. Deadline: 31st October (applications will be considered upon arrival) |
| Farewell to our former PhD student, Dr. Vicente G. Jiménez, who is leaving the group after four succesfull years to join industry. Best of luck in his new position! |
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| Our Ph.D student Lucía Palomino, co-supervised with Dr. Teresa Rodríguez (Imdea Nanociencia) and Dr. Alba Millán (UGR), succesfully defended her Ph.D. thesis!!! Well done Lucia! Congratulations to the new Dr.! |
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 | Check our latest work on the supramolecular chemistry of heptagon-containing hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene analogues in self-association and host-guest processes: Heptagon-Containing Saddle-Shaped Nanographenes: Self-Association and Complexation Studies with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Fullerenes ( link ), published in Organic materials as part of the Curved Organic π-Systems focus Issue ( link ) |
| Today we say goodbye after 4 great years to Dr. Arthur David! All the best in his new postdoctoral position with Prof. Stoddart. Good luck Arthur! |
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| Two in a row!!! Check our latest communications in Angewandte!!! In the first one, entitled Octagon‐embedded carbohelicene as chiral motif for CPL emission of saddle‐helix nanographenes ( link ), we describe the structure and chiroptical properties of π‐extended carbo[5]helicenes bearing an octagonal carbocycle. In the second one, entitled Single‐Molecule Conductance of 1,4‐Azaborine Derivatives as Models of BN‐doped PAHs ( link ) we studied the single–molecule conductance of BN‐acene‐like compunds using the scanning tunneling break‐junction approach |
| Outreach activities: Members of the NANOGRAPHOUT and MORFUN groups have participated in the “Semana de la Ciencia de Andalucía 2020” with the video: No es magia, es química (It´s not Magic, it´s Chemistry). Watch the ( video ) |
| Our PhD student Vicente G. Jimenez passed his PhD defense!!! Well done Vicente! Congratulations to the new Dr.! |
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| Our PhD student Arthur David succesfully defended his PhD thesis!!! Well done Arthur! Congratulations to the new Dr.! |
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| Check out our recent communication in ChemComm!!! Dibenzocycloheptatriene as end-group of Thiele and tetrabenzo-Chichibabin hydrocarbons, follow this link to learn about the structure and electronic properties of Thiele and tetrabenzo-Chichibabin hydrocarbon functionalized with terminal dibenzocycloheptatriene units |
| Check out our recent communication in Angewandte!!! A Heptagon‐Containing HBC‐Based Macrocycle!!!, follow this link to check our cyclophane with two units of a heptagon-containing hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene analogue that can act as a supramolecular receptor of fullerenes |
| After a two-month lockdown due to Covid-19, Nanographout is slowly coming back in action. Stay safe |
| Nanographout is now working from home due to Covid-19 lab lockdown. Stay safe and at home! Yomequedoencasa |
| Check out our last work published in Angewandte!!! Two‐Photon Absorption Enhancement by the Inclusion of a Tropone Ring in Distorted Nanographene Ribbons!!!, follow this link for an insight on the effect of tropone moieties in the non-linear optical properties of nanographenes |
| Farewell to Dr. Carlos M. Cruz as he is joining the Juríček group at the University of Zurich as postdoctoral researcher. Good luck Carlos! |
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| Our Ph.D student Carlos M. Cruz passed his Ph.D defense!!! Well done Carlos! Congratulations to the new Dr.! |
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| Today we say goodbye to Dr. Silvia Castro, postdoctoral researecher in our group. All the best in your new position in Diego Peña's group! |
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| We are hiring!!! Available Postdoctoral position in Organic Synthesis at our group, check the attached document for more information |
| Araceli G. Campaña has been promoted to Permanent Professor at the University of Granada!!! Congratulations from all the NANOGRAPHOUT team Araceli, very well deserved!!! We are sure that you will be a truly inspiring professor!!! |
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| Congratulations to Carlos M. Cruz!!! The Swiss National Science Foundation has accepted Carlos' application for Spark projects. With this project Carlos will join the group of Prof. Michal Juríček at the University of Zurich as Postdoctoral researcher for one year!!! |
| Federico Villalobos has been granted with a FPU predoctoral grant from the Spanish Ministry of Science. Congratulations Fede and welcome to NANOGRAPHOUT!!! |
| The speakers of the Polymat Spotlight 2020 International Conference on Macromolecular Materials have been announced and we are glad to tell that Araceli G. Campaña will be among the Keynote Lectures. 23th to 26th June 2020, take note in your agenda and come to enjoy with a wide variety of world class speakers |
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| Some people from the NANOGRAPHOUT team participated in the XVII Biennial Meeting of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry, held in San Sebastián with Araceli as invited speaker!!!. We were enjoying the exquisite gastronomy of the Basque Country, thanks to Tania for showing us where to have the best pintxos!!!. Congratulations to Carlos, who won one of the BEST POSTER PRIZES awarded from ChemPubSoc Europe!!! |
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| The 24th birthday of the Sciences Park of Granada and the 22nd Sciences Fair will be held on saturday the 11th of May. Open doors day to visit the museum with lots of scientific talks and events. 10 excellent researcehrs are going to participate in the 'Meeting with women researchers' at 11:30 h!!!. Follow this link to know more about schedule and events!!! |
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| Check out our last work published in Angewandte!!! Six out-of-plane motifs (3xoctabenzo[5]helicenes + 3xseven-membered rings) arranged into a triskelion shaped nanographene!!!, follow this link and enjoy with its amazing optical and chiroptical properties!!! |
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| The “II Simposio de la Unidad de Excelencia de Química Aplicada a Biomedicina y Medioambiente” is coming. This time the symposium will be based on Carbon Nanostructured Materials and will be held on the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Granada during the 18th January of 2019 with Maurizio Prato and Diego Peña as Plenary Lecturers. Registration is open up to 15th January of 2019. We hope to see you there!! |
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| Araceli, Irene and Sara are back from Erlangen where they participated at the WOMEN IN SCIENCE - 1st Erlangen Symposium. Thanks to the organizers for such a great initiative, !! |
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| Miguel A. Medel was visiting the lordly city of Seville in occasion of the 70th birthday of Prof. Ernesto Carmona. An International Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis was held in his honor, happy birthday Ernesto!!! |
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| New publication from NANOGRAPHOUT group!!! Angewandte Chemie just published and tagged as Very Important Paper our recent work entitled “Undecabenzo[7]superhelicene: A Helical Nanographene Ribbon as a Circularly Polarized Luminescence Emitter”, follow this link to know more about this novel extended superhelicene and its optical properties!!! |
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| The NANOGRAPHOUT group contributed at the European Researchers' Night, we were at the European Corner showing the work that we carry out at the University of Granada and talking with the people about how relevant is our study in the field of nanoscale materials. |
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| Prof. Colin Nuckolls from the University of Columbia (New York) was visiting the University of Granada and delighting us with their splendid work in the field of molecular electronics. We want to thank Prof. Colin Nuckolls for coming, we are sure that he was enjoying our city!!! Thanks! |
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 | Vicente and Carlos were enjoying the academic atmosphere of the historic city of Oxford. This makes the congress Curo-pi-3 even more attractive if possible. Amazing congress, Nanographout group congratulates Prof. Harry Anderson and the organizing comittee for this unforgettable experience; all the talks and that poster session at the Natural History Museum were amazing. |
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| Lucía participated with a poster contribution at Carbon2018 congress held in Madrid from July 1st to 6th. |
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| Carlos M. Cruz participated at the 12th Spanish-Italian Symposium on Organic Chemistry (SISOC XII) with an oral communication talking about distorted nanographenes containing seven membered rings and helical chirality. |
| The NANOGRAPHOUT group contributed with their work at the “XXVII Reunión Bienal de Química Orgánica” held on Santiago de Compostela from 20 to 22nd June of 2018. The group was enjoying visiting this beautiful and historical city. |
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| The Nobel Price of Chemistry, Prof. Jean-Pierre Sauvage was visiting the University of Granada, we could enjoy with his extraordinary and wonderful talk about molecular knots, rotaxanes and molecular machines. Thanks a lot for coming!!! |
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| Chemical Communication has published our new review based on the Synthesis of distorted nanographenes containing seven- and eight-membered carbocycles. Link here . |
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| New article from NANOGRAPHOUT group has been published on Chemical Science and featured on the INSIDE BACK COVER!!! Entitled “Enantiopure distorted ribbon-shaped nanographene combining two-photon absorption-based upconversion and circularly polarized luminescence”, check it here . |
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| New article from NANOGRAPHOUT group has been published on Chemical Communications, entitled: “Aggregation-induced emission of [3]cumulenes functionalized with heptagon-containing polyphenylenes”. You can check it in the following link . |
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| Prof. Tsuyoshi Kawai was visiting our laboratories, he also showed us his wonderful work carried out at Nara Institute of Science and Technology. He was enjoying the beautiful Alhambra and the city of Granada, thank you for coming!!! |
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| Silvia Castro-Fernández joins the group as Post-Doctoral researcher. A warm welcome to her!!! |
| Vicente and Carlos contributed with a poster and poster-short oral presentation respectively at the German-Spanish symposium on frontiers on Chemistry and at the ICIQ-School. Both held on Tarragona at the Catalan Institute of Chemical Research (ICIQ). |
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| Carlos M. Cruz has been awarded with one of the best posters prize on 16th International Conference on Chiroptical Spectroscopy. Congratulations Carlos! |
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 | NEW EQUIPMENT HAS BEEN ACQUIRED. The group has just acquired a new home-built Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM). This new equipment will allow us to perform STM break-junction measurements of single-molecule conductance. The group wants to thank Dra. Teresa González Pérez (IMDEA Nanociencia, Madrid) for coming to Granada and for her great job assembling this wonderful instrument. |
| Miguel A. Medel joins the group as technical support, welcome to NANOGRAPHOUT!!! |
AVAILABLE POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN ORGANIC SYNTHESIS - UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA
The selected candidate will incorporate to the ERC-Starting Grant project nº 677023 'NANOGRAPHOUT' working on the design, synthesis and characterization of the properties of distorted nanographene molecules incorporating non-hexagonal ring defects.
Applications of strongly motivated candidates should be sent by email (araceligc@ugr.es) including:
a) Cover letter.
b) Curriculum vitae including publications list and a concise research summary.
c) Names and contact details of at least two academic referees.
More information: see pdf attached
| Irene is going to defend her thesis, come on and see her on Friday the 3th of March. We´re sure that she will do it perfectly. Best wishes from all Nanographout members. |
| Synfacts has highlighted our latest article! Synfacts 2017; 13(01): 0034 (DOI: 10.1055/s-0036-1589825) |
| New equipment has been purchased. The DSM 172 made by Olis Inc. will allow us to perform photophysical measurements, including measures of circular dichroism (CD) and circularly polarized luminiscence (CPL). The group wants to thanks Dr. Richard DeSa and Julie DeSa for coming to Spain to show us their powerful equipment. |
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| The project NANOGRAPHOUT appears in Pan European Networks: Science and Technology journal. See Issue 21, page 68 !! |
| The group recently presented its current project ( NANOGRAPHOUT ) in European Researchers' Night, held in Granada the 30th of September. |
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November 2015: Dr. Campaña has been awarded with the
ERC-Starting Grant to work on the project
NANOGRAPHOUT : “Design, synthesis, study and applications of distorted nanographenes”.
June 2015: Irene R. Márquez will present our recent results at the 18th IUPAC International Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry Directed Towards Organic Synthesis, OMCOS18, in Sitges, Spain (28 June - 2 July). Go and see her at the poster session!
April 2015: A new call of the “Grants to initiation in research” for undergraduate students is now open at the
UGR. For details, please read the
application section . If you are interested in applying, do not hesitate in contact us!
March 2015: Irene R. Márquez has been awarded with a fellowship by the spanish MECD to carry out a 3-month stage at University of Reno joining the group of
Prof. Benjamin T. King . Congratulations!
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