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A business initiative led by postdoctoral researcher Dr. Javier Plou, from the Nanoengineering Group, has been selected among the top 10 start-ups in the Health category of the prestigious EIT Jumpstarter program. The project, which focuses on developing novel spectroscopic technologies for monitoring advanced CAR-T therapies, was first prioritized by Basque Tek Ventures, validating its potential for real-world impact.

The Nanodevices group at CIC nanoGUNE shows that breaking a material’s inversion symmetry can shatter Ohm’s law, unleashing powerful nonlinear phenomena. Their review, just published in Nature Materials, maps this emerging landscape and points toward a new generation of nano- and quantum-electronic devices.

MindSens wins the III Global Graphene Call with a breakthrough dementia diagnostic device: a portable, accurate, and affordable home-use diagnostic tool that could bring early dementia detection into homes and clinics around the world. The international call launched by CIC nanoGUNE, BerriUp, Graphenea, Fomento de San Sebastián, and BIC Gipuzkoa, seeks revolutionary ideas that tackles the potential of graphene in industrial and technological applications.

Researcher Sofia Ferreira Teixeira has been honored with the Inspira Gazteak 2025 Award, presented by the Kutxa Foundation during a ceremony held yesterday at the TOPIC in Tolosa. This award recognizes young and committed talent in Gipuzkoa, celebrating individuals who contribute to building a fairer, more creative, and more sustainable society.

Over 70 project management heads from centers accredited with the Severo Ochoa and María de Maeztu seals of excellence will be participating in this meeting. The meeting is being organized by the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL), CIC nanoGUNE, the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), and POLYMAT, cutting-edge centers in the local scientific ecosystem.

The Basque nanoscience and nanotechnology research center is reinforcing its commitment to quantum technologies with this 1,500 m²–expansion dedicated to the development of silicon-based quantum chips. The Quantum Tower consolidates nanoGUNE as a benchmark in quantum technologies and will house the center’s own research laboratories in these technologies as well as the Basque subsidiary of the British scale-up company Quantum Motion. 

The Spin & Orbit conference, organized by CIC nanoGUNE, is bringing together the scientific community to discuss future electronics. Over 100 international experts in spintronics and orbitronics are meeting in Donostia / San Sebastian this week in their quest to develop revolutionary technologies for faster and more efficient information processing and storage.

A newly published review article in Nature Reviews Materials highlights the groundbreaking impact of scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM), a technique that surpasses the diffraction limit to achieve nanoscale optical imaging across a broad spectral range. Authored by leading experts in the field, the review traces the evolution of s-SNOM and its expanding applications in nanophotonics, materials science, and quantum research.

In a recent study published in Nature, an international team of researchers in which nanoGUNE scientists participate has developed a groundbreaking two-dimensional conducting polymer—polyaniline (2DPANI)—that exhibits exceptional electrical conductivity and metallic charge transport behavior. Unlike conventional conducting polymers, which show strong conduction along polymer chains but suffer from poor interchain/interlayer conductivity, 2DPANI overcomes these limitations with its unique crystal structure, enabling efficient electron flow both within and across its layers.

The 9th edition of Emakumeak Zientzian [Women in Science] kicks off in a festive atmosphere and highlights how each small step can make a difference on the road to equality in science. Thirty-five Basque organizations are jointly running a wide-ranging programme of over 60 activities in the 9th edition of Emakumeak Zientzian.