Self-Assembly News

CIC nanoGUNE, a nanoscience research center in the Basque Country, is exploring and developing new materials to store DNA containing digital information. This promising line of research, led by nanoGUNE's Self Assembly team, is part of the TextaDNA project, a European Union EIC PathFinder project coordinated by…

CIC nanoGUNE is participating in the EU-funded NanoReMedi project which offers early stage researchers the opportunity to pursue an innovative research project in functional nano-scaffolds for regenerative medicine, within a joint doctorate educational training model.

The internships will involve the participation of university students in actual research projects with nanoGUNE researchers for a period of two months. Applications can be submitted until 12 February 2023.

The granting of three patents plus an additional three new patent applications considerably enrich CIC nanoGUNE's industrial property portfolio. The center currently has 25 patent applications in the fields of health, optics, materials science and electronics, all at the nanoscale, of course. In addition, 17…

CIC nanoGUNE has recently become one of the organizations that drive the Spanish project CardioPrint, to advance the field of biofabrication by developing a novel device capable of generating bioartificial human tissues with unprecedented precision. Our aims are, in short, to design, produce and test new…

The researcher in CIC nanoGUNE’s Self-Assembly Group Maider Rekondo-Salsamendi has received the Youth Entrepreneurship Scholarship for the project entitled Zelulosa zuntzak elektrospinning bidez (Electrospun Cellulose Fibers).

The PhD researchers of nanoGUNE have organized a one-day event to celebrate the 11th anniversary of nanoGUNE. The workshop has consisted of three sessions: Spin-off inside and outside of nanoGUNE, Escape the lab, and a poster session.

CIC nanoGUNE has just launched the call in its Summer Internship Programme, which it runs every year; it offers university students the chance to get to know first-hand about the activity of a world-class research centre.

NanoGUNE, located at the Ibaeta Campus of the UPV/EHU in Donostia – San Sebastián, offers PhD opportunities to graduates in Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Biology, and related areas to get their PhD degree.

Would you like to do an internship over the summer? We have a great option for you!

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We wrapped up our investigation of the surface structure of TMV: "Multifrequency Force Microscopy of Helical Protein Assembly on a Virus"

New group member: Franziska Günl

Pt and Pt based alloy nanoclusters in cowpea chlorotic mottle virus

... by Okuda and coworkers in Roskilde and Sheffield

Goodbye Annalisa!

NovaSpider 3D printing of red. graphene oxide

New paper with partners from CFM and DIPC

Cooperation with Domotek

Annalisa, Maria, Alex present their latest results in early October

ECOSS and E-MRS

End of Sara's summer internship

The rod-shaped Tobacco mosaic virus

Demo experiment: Electrospinning demo of polystyrene fibres from dichloromethane solution

Playing with a TMV model...

New substrate!

We are currently working on improving our current sensing AFM. As yet, our approach is based on contact AFM. A test shows what we suspected: We can obtain local currents, even in the pA range, but the tips do not survive this procedure intact. SEM images show giant damage of our Au/Cr/Si tips. More in the following…

NanoGUNE offers 4 scholarships to students of the Master in Nanoscience and the Master in New Materials of the UPV/EHU choosing Master thesis subjects within one of nanoGUNE's research groups.

Aspargi, the Parkinson Association of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country, Spain), supports an Inbiomed-nanoGUNE joint research project with a grant of 6 000€, in order to develop better ways to grow neurons, in order to investigate the disease mechanisms and to find new treatments.

Wiwat Nuansing, Pre-doctoral Researcher in the Self-Assembly Group at nanoGUNE, received his PhD at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) after the defense of his thesis project on Monday 23 June 2014. He carried out his research work, entitled Electrospinning of Biomolecules, under the supervision of Dr.…

Wiwat Nuansing, Pre-doctoral Researcher in the Self-Assembly Group at nanoGUNE, received his Doctor Degree at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) after the defense of his thesis project on Monday 23 June 2014. He carried out his research work, entitled Electrospinning of Biomolecules, under the…

NanoGUNE hosts more than 120 experts in nanotechnology and medicine at the 2014 Annual Event & General Assembly of the European Technology Platform on Nanomedicine (ETPN). The ETPN event has taken place on 15 and 16 October 2014, co-organized by the nanoBasque Agency (SPRI) and nanoGUNE, the Basque Nanoscience…

Thales de Oliveira, Pre-doctoral Researcher at the Self-Assembly Group at nanoGUNE, received his PhD at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) after the defense of his thesis project on Friday 23 May 2014. His research work, entitled “Polythiophene-based nanoscale lateral devices”, has been developed under…

Nanotechnology highlights nanoGUNE’s Self-Assembly Group’s research as the “Publisher’s Pick”. A feature about the original paper has been published at the “Lab talk” section and an interview to José María Alonso has been included.

The micrograph of a lateral spin valve with integrated dielectric mask, which was obtained by the Ph.D. student Thales de Oliveira from the Self-Assembly Group, has been awarded the second prize of the Raith Micrograph Award 2011. Raith is one of the world-leading suppliers of innovative solutions for…

A new strategy for spontaneous self-assembly of Graphene NanoRibbons (GNRs) using a Single-Walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) as both the reaction vessel and the template for nanoribbon growth has been reported in a recent article by researchers from nanoGUNE and from the Universities of Nottingham and Ulm (A. Chuvilin…

Starting June the first, Dr. Alexander Bittner has taken on his new responsibilities as the Group Leader of the Self-Assembly Group of nanoGUNE.