Molecular Nanoscience Laboratory

We are part of the Inorganic and Organic Chemistry Department at the Universitat de Barcelona, and the group is part of the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, IN2UB (https://www.ub.edu/in2ub/grup-de-recerca/molecular-nanoscience-laboratory/)

In the group (at Inorganic Chemistry Section, School of Chemistry, Laboratory 256) we are interested in the nanostructuration of nanomagnets, for various applications from molecular spintronics to quantum computing or sensing.

We have two main areas of research: synthesis of new 2D metal-organic materials and surface deposition of nanomagnets. Devices must become greener, faster and smaller and molecular nanoscience will play a key role in the development of these devices of the future now.

For synthesis, we use microwave assisted synthesis and mechanochemistry. We are concerned with the environment, and we always explore synthetic methods that can be considered green due to the low energy consumption and a minimal waste generation.

The main goal of our research is to be able to integrate functional nanomagnets or 2D materials into faster, smaller and greener devices. For this, surface deposition and the organization of the molecular materials on a surface is necessary. 2D materials offer a unique platform where ordered 2-dimensional arrays of the molecular species are already attained and efforts are devoted to the exfoliation, transfer to a surface and formation of heterostructures. On the other hand, for molecular nanomagnets we explore wet methods of deposition on relevant surfaces. A key factor is to understand the molecule-surface interactions and to characterize the magnetic properties of molecules or 2D metal-organic materials on surfaces. This is done by XMCD, XPS/HAXPES and HF EPR.

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PI: E. Carolina Sañudo, Associate professor

Until 2023, I was co-leader of the Group of Magnetism and Functional Materials at UB. Former group members are the students I supervised up to 2023.  This list is as complete and updated as  possible!

Current group members:

PhD students

Guillem Gabarró Riera

Eva Tormos Feliu

Abir Dhaou (codirection with the University of Carthage, Tunisia)

Master students

Patricia Llanés

Samuel Amali

Kevin Parada Rolán

Solene Gomez

Visiting students

Chrysa Katsavou

Zoe Depraetre

Former group members

PhD students

Marisol Ledezma-Gairaud (2014 PhD, now Professor at the Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica)

Lidia Rosado Piquer (2019 PhD, now high school teacher)

Visiting students

Abir Dhaou (2022, 2023, PhD student, University of Carthage, Tunisia)

Arfa Chaima (2023, PhD student, University of Carthage, Tunisia)

Dominik Laible ( 2021, PhD student,  Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany)

Amna Fandouli (2021, 2022, PhD student, University of Gabes, Tunisia)

Faezeh Mogzhi (2019, PhD student, University of Tehran, Iran)

Samira Golizadeh (2016, PhD student, Arak University, Iran)

TFM (Master Thesis)

Eva Tormos Feliu, 2023

Sara Dias, 2023

Subodh Kumar, 2022

Alejandro Cuesta Troyano, 2022

Jonay González, 2021

Carles Rubio Maturana, 2020

Diego Lallana, 2020

Guillem Gabarró Riera, 2019

Saul Carneros, 2017

Raquel Royo, 2017

Mariona Escoda, 2016

Xavier Sabaté Sans, 2015

Lidia Rosado, 2014

Maria José Heras Ojea, 2013

Daniel Reta Mañeru, 2012

Alba Pons Balagué, 2012

TFGs (Final Chemistry Degree projects)

Kevin Parada Rolán (2022-2023)

Helena Fernández Cortes (2021-2022)

Guillem Nistal (2020-2021)

Laura Navarro Spreafica (2020-2021)

Morgana Núnez (2019-2020)

Alejandro Cuesta Troyano (2019-2020)

Sara Barbero (2018-2019)

Jonay González (2018-2019)

Alba Palacios (2018-2019)

Kevin Consuegra (2017-2018)

Carolina Porcar (2017-2018)

Raquel Giménez (2017-2018)

Francesca Canyelles (2016-2017)

Joel Barrientos (2016-2017)

Guillem Gabarró (2016-2017)

Xavier Domingo (2016-2017)

Sara Mauri Querol (2016-2017)

Anna Broto Ribas (2016-2017)

Saul Carneros, (2015-2016)

Sonia Fornes, (2015-2016)

Mariona Escoda (2014-2015)

Lluis Artús Suàrez (2014-2015)

Joaquin Bonelli Blasco (2014-2015)

Xavier Sabaté Sans (2013-2014)

Joan Homs Esquius (2013-2014)

Núria Sambola Marcial (2013-2014)

Lara Grangel Gutiérrez (2012-2013)

Arturo Sopena (2012-2013)

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ResearcherID: A-8384-2014

Scopus Author ID: 6602304439

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9647-6406