#BCMaterials_Awards | Our pre-doc researcher Gabriel Cabral, Best Poster Presentation Award for the work “Hydrophobic/hydrophilic bifunctional cryogel for the SPE-LC-MS analysis of PFAS in water” at the International Conference on Advanced Polymer Science & Engineering in Tenerife. Congratulations!

#BCMaterials_Outreach 📽️Ez galdu #BeZientzia 2025-ko ekimenaren bideoa. Bi egun zirraragarri Bilbon, Bizkaiko 200 ikasle baino gehiagorekin zientzia zuzenean egiten. Atsegin handia izan da @achucarro.bsky.social, #BC3 and #BCAM Bizkaiko #BERC zentroekin aritzea!

#BCMaterials_Seminars | 📷Images of this week’s invited talks with Prof. André Pereira Faculty of Sciences University of Porto on flexible electronics and Dr. Karolina Milowska Ikerbasque Fellow at @nanogune.bsky.social on a multiscale modelling paradigm for nanomaterials in extreme environments.

🧬𝐀𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭, 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 @cicbiomagune.bsky.social, BCMaterials and #CICenergiGUNE researchers develop proteins to transport and store electricity. 

#BCMaterials_Outreach | Lehen eguna @ehuzientzia.bsky.social-en #ZientziaAstea-n! Material berriak ura garbitzeko eta balorizatzeko, eta bateria ekodiseinatuak, jasangarriak eta gailuen bizi-ziklora egokituak erakutsiko ditugu. 📌 Bizkaia Aretoa, Bilbao 🗓️Azaroa 5-9 ✅Chillida Aretoa. 1. solairua

#BCMaterials_Events | 📢 New Materials for a Better Life! workshop 2025 ‘C3M: critical materials, for critical environments and critical applications’ 🗓️ November 19 🕘 9:00-14:00 📌 Martina Casiano auditorium (Leioa) ✅ Register now at: lnkd.in/dPdMpeN9 Full programme: www.nm4bl.org/program/

#BCMaterials_Outreach | Happy to be part of #BeZientzia in Bilbao with #BERC centers @achucarro.bsky.social, #BC3 and #BCAM. Fostering curiosity for science in 6th grade kids through workshops like ours, devoted to #MOFs as “magical” powder for #WaterRemediation and #WaterValorization.

First amazing day of #BeZientzia 2025 at Ensanche building in #Bilbao, thanks to #BilbaoEkintza, #BilbaoUdala. Great partnership with #BC3, #BCAM and @bcmaterials.bsky.social | @zubsaila.bsky.social

Last Friday Sara Martin defended her PhD Thesis supervised by Unai Silvan & Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez @bcmaterials.bsky.social. Big thanks to the committee members Manuel Mata, Sylvie Ribeiro and Gaskon Ibarretxe (@signalinglab.bsky.social)!

👏🎓 Second new PhD in a row in only two days!! Congratulations Sara Martín for becoming PhD in the @ehu.eus Biomedical Research doctoral programme! Also congratulations to her thesis coordinators, the #BCMaterials researchers Unai Silván and Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez! #MaterialsScience #Biomaterials

👏🎓Congrats, Paula Rodríguez, new PhD of #BCMaterials at the @ehu.eus !! Paula defended her thesis “Tailoring electroactive biomaterial-protein interface and interactions to drive cell behavior”, directed by Viktor Petrenko, BCMaterials, and Marité Cárdenas, #Biofisika.

We took part at the #Wearables workshop in Bilbao this week, organized by Euskal Elektromedikuntza Forua and the @ehu.eus Engineering School. Three interesting presentations on how new #MaterialsScience impact on developing #sensors and #biosensors in #healthcare settings.

We warmly welcome Chinese PhD students Jingsai Cheng and Linxin Guo, from Wuhan University of Technology and Shaanxi University of Science and Technology. They join us as visiting researchers for a whole year to work on materials photocatalysis from different perspectives.

Congratulations, Leire Celaya Azcoaga for your brilliant PhD defense; "Biomolecule-based porous zirconium metal-organic materials: Structure–property relationships". Also congratulations to her thesis directors, Óscar Castillo @ztffct.bsky.social and Roberto Fernández #BCMaterials.

Ya está aquí el ordenador cuántico IBM Quantum System Two. #BasQ #BasqueQuantum #Euskadiberria

We celebrate the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Omar Yaghi, until recently a member of BCMaterials' International Advisory Committee. Our warmest congratulations and deepest thanks for the invaluable guidance you've given us over the years!! #MOFs #MaterialsScience www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemi...

🚨 #WeAreHiring! We are looking for a post-doctoral researcher for designing molecular #qubits Apply now and join us to develop new materials for a better life! 📅 Deadline: October 31, 2025 ➡️ https://bcmaterials.net/en/join-us

Great invited talk with César Fernández Sánchez, from IMB-CNM, on the potential of compact electrochemical tools in the point-of-care detection of clinical biomarkers by combinating lateral flow devices and miniaturized electrochemical transducers. #Electrochemistry #PointOfCare #MaterialsScience

Consortium meeting of the Bideko Project in Leioa. Two days of great progress towards the upcoming BIDEKO battery generations, based on ecodesign, sustainability assessments and experimental end-of-life for biodegradable batteries that can be home compostable or degraded in soil.

🚨 #WeAreHiring! We are looking for a laboratory technical assistant. Apply now and join us to develop new materials for a better life! 📅 Deadline: October 20, 2025 ➡️ bcmaterials.net/en/join-us

Really nice poster by our pre-doc researcher Niloufar Abdirad "Heavy metals absorption into the Amino-rich pore space of Cubic and Orthorhombic variants of Zr(IV) and Ce(IV)-Imidoacetate Metal-Organic Frameworks" at #EuroMOF2025 @euromof.bsky.social  conference in Greece! @ztffct.bsky.social

🧪 Very nice experience, once more, at the European Researchers’ Night in Bilbao by @ehuzientzia.bsky.social! 🔬We experimented with new materials for safer and more sustainable batteries, water remediation and sensoring. 👊Thanks to organisers and people that passed by our science booth!

¡Os esperamos en una nueva edición de la Ikertzaileen Gaua, organizada por @ehuzientzia.bsky.social! 📅 Viernes, 26 sept. 📌Arenal, Bilbao ⌚ 17:00 a 21:30   En nuestro txoko experimentaremos con nuevos materiales para descontaminar el agua, crear sensores y también pilas más seguras y sostenibles.

We received the visit of the @cicbiomagune.bsky.social  researcher Fausto Comba to take some measurements related with the #FLUFET project. Fausto and Eduardo Fernández, from BCMaterials, pose with a microfluidics device to prove the sensibility of a Graphenea graphene chip under flux conditions.

¿Conoces la Noche Europea de los Investigadores e Investigadoras? Acércate el 26 de septiembre al Arenal de Bilbao y al Bizkaia Aretoa y diviertete con la ciencia.🔗 bit.ly/4gbWjmJ @nereajauregizar.bsky.social #G9SCIENCE4ALL #NIGHTSpain #EuropeanResearchersNight

Nice contributions at the 6th International Conference on Energy Storage Materials, #ICSnSM2025, in China. Ikerbasque  researchers Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez, Qi Zhang  and Manuel Salado focused on improving safety and sustainability of batteries through new material science.

👏Congratulations to our pre-doctoral researcher, Eudomar Henríquez-Guerra on his remarkable first-author paper: “Strain Engineering of Magnetoresistance and Magnetic Anisotropy in CrSBr”, published in Advanced Materials. 🔗https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202506695

📢 New #InvitedTalk with César Fernández, scientific researcher at the Barcelona Institute for Microelectronics (IMB-CNM, CSIC) ‘The potential of compact electrochemical tools in the point-of-care detection of clinical biomarkers’ 📅 Oct. 7 ⌚ 11:00 📌 Martina Casiano Auditorium ➡️ Free attendance

Our Ramón y Cajal Researcher Davide Spirito contributed with a very interesting oral presentation at the E-MRS fall meeting 2025 in Poland. “Raman spectroscopy of SiGeSn alloys for thermal and vibrational properties” was the title of his presentation. Congratulations, Davide!

Groundbreaking oral contributions by Daniel Salazar and @mariana_riosn, at the #ICOMAT 2025 conference, held in Prague, about functional magnetic 3D-printed devices and the magnetostructural behavior of a new family of magnetocaloric alloys for low-temperature applications.

📢 New #InvitedTalk with Prof. Akio Kimura, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima Univiersity (Japan) 'Probing Electronic Structures of Heusler-type Metamagnetic Shape Memory Alloys by Synchrotron Spectroscopy' 📅 Oct. 3 ⌚ 12:00 📌 Martina Casiano Auditorium ➡️ Free attendance

🚨 #WeAreHiring! Are you a post-doc in #Physics or similar field? Apply now for a position on Laser-based Patterning of Nanomaterial Composites 📅 Deadline: October 10, 2025 ➡️ bcmaterials.net/en/join-us Join us to develop new materials for a better life!

🚀 We are happy to start 4 new ‘Generación de Conocimiento’ projects, funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. They cover different aspects of new #MaterialsScience: magnetoactive and electroactive materials, #nanomaterials, #perovskite solar cells, and #MOFs 🔎 rb.gy/z98pos

🚨 #WeAreHiring! #Engineering #MaterialsScience #Physics #Chemistry pre-docs Apply for a position on AI techniques for material surrogate models in multiphysics simulations. 📅 Deadline: Oct 3, 2025 ➡️ bcmaterials.net/en/join-us Join us to develop new materials for a better life!

🚨 #WeAreHiring! Are you a pre-doc with a MsC Degree in #Physics or similar field? Apply now for a position on laser-based patterning of nanomaterial composites 📅 Deadline: Sept 25, 2025 ➡️ Apply now! bcmaterials.net/en/join-us Join us to develop new materials for a better life!

Welcome to our new post-doctoral researchers Paola Cromomo, Francisco Peralta and Daiana Cabrosi!! They will work on the Advanced Functional Materials and Surfaces, Active and Smart Materials, and Micro and Nano-Structured Materials research lines. #MaterialScience

We want to thank Prof. Raynald Gauvin, from @mcgill.ca for his fantastic talk on the analysis of Lithium in battery materials with electron microscopy, showing the capacity of the (STEM) SU-9000 unit from Hitachi, with an electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) detector.

🖥️ Watch now the full video of the second #MaterialsForSociety event with Jorge Gacía del Arco, Corporate Development Officer at #QUBIZteam. ✅Enjoy ‘Deep Tech: ciencia para cambiar el mundo’, on BCMaterials Youtube Channel: youtu.be/-QsD0dMnHGk?... 💗 Special thanks to @ztffct.bsky.social

Really nice #FortnighlySeminar with our post-doctoral researcher Mikel Rincón Iglesias. He spoke about the development of a fully inkjet-printed dual humidity sensor, the fabrication process and potential uses in agriculture, food industry, environmental metrology, etc. Congratulations, Mikel!

⏩The #BCMaterials Technology Transfer department, represented by Raquel González and Javier Vicente, participated in the meeting with Portuguese companies at the Portugal-Basque Country Roadshow, organized by #Innobasque, Basque Agency for Innovation. Great event to explore future collaborations!!

📢 New #InvitedTalk with Prof. Raynald Gauvin, @mcgill.ca , international figure in the development of new computational models for characterizing the microstructure of materials and creator of the CASINO program. 📅 July 16. ⌚ 11:00 📌 Martina Casiano Auditorium ➡️ Free attendance

Cristian Mendes-Felipe, #MSCA post-doc researcher's fornightly seminar on #photopolymerization, adressing its applications in #energy, #biomedicine, #electronics, #additivemanufacturing plus advantages and current challenges. Congratulations, Cristian on this great presentation!

Great #FunctionalPrinting course organized with Functional Print Cluster last week at BCMaterials. Almost 40 attendees learning ink formulation, printing techniques and device manufacturing. We also helped to form future vocational training teachers for the INFINITE Erasmus + project.

We enjoyed today ‘Processes and Materials for Life’ joint symposium organized with #InstitutoBiofisika. Really nice talks showcasing cutting-edge research with potential applications in healthcare, sustainability… Great atmosphere to seed future collaborations!

Great #MaterialsForScience event with Jorge García del Arco, one of the main Basque entrepreneurs with positive social impact. We learnt how to bring ideas from lab to the market, soft skills for entrepreneurs, quantum technologies … Thanks Jorge, @ztffct.bsky.social for your collaboration!

🚨Nueva charla #MaterialsForSociety con Jorge García del Arco, gran experto en innovación de impacto. 🗓️18 Junio ⌚️11:00 📍 Auditorio Martina Casiano ✅ Entrada libre ➡️Colabora @ztffct.bsky.social #DeepTech, ciencia disruptiva, cómo identificar y desarrollar buenas ideas científico-tecnológicas...

📝'The New Materials Behind the Battery Revolution' 🔊 "These developments are increasingly supported by public and private initiatives that recognize energy storage as a key point of the green transition." ✏️ Vera Macedo and Cristian Mendes 🔗 daily27.info/2025/06/03/t... @bcmaterials.bsky.social

Mid-Term Meeting of the #Piezo2D European project in Latvia. Productive discussions on piezoelectricity in #2DMaterials for energy harvesting and generation, biomedical devices, environmental catalysis, sensors, actuators. Our researcher Hugo Salazar represented BCMaterials. #MaterialsScience

It was our pleasure to recieve today Daniel Hernangómez Pérez, Gipuzkoa Fellow at @nanogune.bsky.social speaking about the excitonic behaviour of low-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides #TMDC. #MaterialsScience #2DMaterials Thanks for sharing your research with us, Daniel!

Very happy to have hosted the #Selfaquasens project's mid-term meeting. Nice progress towards the final goal, which is to create self-sensing membranes able to remove pollutants from water, recover valuable elements and monitor the whole process. ▶️https://selfaquasens.eu