🎄🎅 From BCMaterials, we want to wish you all Merry Christmas and a happy new year 2026! We are asking Santa for more and better science. Because the world needs the scientists more than ever!! Peace and love for everyone!!

Hi #NeutronScience community!! Save the date for the third edition of #IMOH2026 International Meeting on Challenges and Opportunities for #HiCANS! 🗓️October 13-15 📍Leioa (Spain) Stay tuned for the announcement of the abstract submission opening dates! Imoh.eu

#BCMaterials_Seminars | 📢 Invited Talk with David Estrada and Mone't Sawyer, scientists from Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering,Boise State University. 🗓️December 16 🕚11:00 📌Martina Casiano auditorium (Leioa) ✅Admission free until full capacity is reached

#BCMaterials_Training | 🎓 Congratulations to María Calles García, new #PhD of #BCMaterials! Brilliant defense of her thesis ‘Chelating Metal-Organic Frameworks and Their Polymer-Composites For Water Remediation’. #MaterialsScience #PHDthesis #MOFs #Environment #Remediation

#BCMaterials_Seminars | 🧬 Today we received Anton Guimerà from @imb_cnm with his invited talk ‘Advanced technology for biomedical applications’. Guimerà showed his groups' different research lines and examples of #OrganOnAChip platforms and thin-film based neural interfaces.

#BCMaterials_Seminars | 🔋 Great invited talk with Dr. Liu Yao, research professor of the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics. He presented his research on polymer-based solid-state #batteries searching for good processability and interfacial compatibility. #MaterialsScience

#BCMaterials_Research | Today we held the High Risk/High Gain 2025 seed projects presentations. The goal is to foster disruptive focuses on materials science research. The presented projects proposed new solutions for materials for #healthcare, #energy generation and storage.

#BCMaterials_Outreach | Our post-doc researcher Paola Crocomo took part in two events of the #STEAM Orientation Sessions by #Innobasque for 10th grade students. Paola shared her experience as a scientist, described her daily work, academic background and scientific vocation.

#BCMaterials_Jobs | #WeAreHiring Pre-doctoral position: Laser-driven Nanomaterial Assembly and Synthesis on Surfaces. Apply now and join us to develop new materials for a better life! 📅 Deadline: December 14, 2025 ➡️ lnkd.in/ene5Hjsu #MaterialsScience

#BCMaterials_Research | ‘Laser-Treated Screen-Printed Carbon Electrodes for Electrochemiluminescence imaging’ by Javier del Campo and Guillermo Conejo with @unibo.it scientists, one of the 5 most-read papers at ‘Chemical & Biomedical Imaging’. ➡️Full article here! shorturl.at/YkvIW #MaterialsScience

#BCMaterials_Media | 📻 No os perdáis la entrevista a nuestro investigador Daniel Salazar y a Elena Jubete, de #CIDETEC en 'La Mecánica del Carcol' con @evacaballero.bsky.social, sobre materiales críticos, ambientes críticos y aplicaciones críticas. ▶️ www.eitb.eus/es/nahieran/... ⌚ Min 20:00

#BCMaterials_Events | Fantastic 2025 edition of the New Materials for a Better Life! workshop! Great talks and discussion on critical materials for critical environments and critical applications. Thanks to all speakers and attendees!! #MaterialsScience #CriticalMaterials

#BCMaterials_Seminars | Great fortnightly seminar with our predoc researchers Elvira Vidal and Elena Pagalday, presenting progress on copper catalysis in #MOFs and on 2D-based #membranes for environmental remediation. Congrats, and keep up the great work on your doctorates!

#BCMaterials_Seminars | ‘Nobel Prizes 2025: From Quantum Physics to metal-organic frameworks’ by #BCMaterials #Ikerbasque Fellows Anna Sinelshchikova and Itziar Oyarzabal. They explained the macroscopic quantum tunneling and energy quantization in electrical circuits, and also how do MOFs work.

🔬 Elektrizitatea garraiatzeko eta biltegiratzeko gaitasuna duten proteinak sortu dituzte @cicbiomagune.bsky.social, @bcmaterials.bsky.social eta #CICenergiGUNE-n 🗞️ ⤵️

#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!