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 News and Updates

  • October 2024

Our Work “Subnanometer Diameter Control in Nanotubes Self-Assembled via Consecutive Cyclization – Polymerization Processes ” has been published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.

  • July 2024

Our Work “Self-assembly of Chemically Programmed Amphiphiles into Aqueous Nanotubes with a Lipophilic Lumen.” has been published in Chem. Eur. J.

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  • September 2024

Beatriz attended the conference 3rd NMR Young Reasearchers Meeting held in Madrid.

Víctor and Carla moved to University of Cantabria under the supervision of Miguel García Iglesias. Good luck guys!!

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Our group had an amazing time at the escape room! 🕵️‍♂️🔍 It was such a fun challenge!

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  • June 2024

David, Alberto and Marina attended the conference POLYMAT Spotlight 2024 held in San Sebastian.

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Marina was awarded the best poster communication of POLYMAT 2024.

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Isabel López has successfully defended her doctoral thesis. Congratulations Isa, we are so proud of you!!

  • May 2024

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Marina, Irene, Beatriz and Priscila participated in the 2nd PhD Organic Chemistry Workshop (WOC 2024):

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- Marina and Irene gave oral communications.

- Beatriz and Priscila presented poster communications.

- Priscila was awarded the best poster communication of WOC 2024.

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Fernando and Fátima attended Girona Seminar.

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David, Alberto and Priscila participated in Supr@Paris 3rd French Supramolecular Chemistry Congress.

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Jacobo participated in 2nd International Supramolecular Chemistry Summer School.

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Jacobo was awarded with a FPI-CAM Fellowship. Congratulations!!!

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  • April 2024

Jorge S. Valera joined the group with a MSCA Individual Fellowship. Congratulations!!

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Carla Pravos joined the group as a PhD student.

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  • March 2024

Víctor participated in XIX National School of Molecular Materials held in Almuñécar (Granada).

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  • February 2024

Welcome to Jorge Rodríguez who joined the group as a Master student, also to Sara and Indar as final year Bachelor students.

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  • January 2024

Our Work “Highly efficient grafting of hetero-complementary amidinium and carboxylate hydrogen-bonding/ionic pairs onto polymer surfaces.” has been published in Chem. Commun.

  • December 2023

Our Work “A Modular and Convergent Synthetic Route to Supramolecular Cyclic Dimers based on Amidinium-Carboxylate Interactions.” has been published in Chem. Eur. J

  • November 2023

Alberto has obtained a position as assistant professor. 

  • October 2023

Marina did a predoctoral research stay in Eindhove, the Netherlands. In the Meijer's research group

  • September 2023

Welcome to Beatriz Torres and Claudia Solek who joined the group as a Phd student. 

Welcome to Sofia Kyriakatou who joined the group as a Erasmus+ student. 

  • August 2023

Our Work “Stacked or Folded? Impact of Chelate Cooperativity on the Self-Assembly Pathway to Helical Nanotubes from Dinucleobase Monomers” has been published in J. Am. Chem. Soc.

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  • July 2023

Our Work “Watson-Crick Hydrogen-bonded Macrocycles Self-assembled from Z-Shaped Dinucleoside Monomers” has been published in Journal of Porphyrins ans Phthalocyanines.

  • June 2023

David, Fátima, Fernando, Isabel, Marina, Irene, Priscila and Jacobo participated at the XXXIX Biennial meeting of Real Sociedad Española de Química (RSEQ) in Zaragoza

  • May 2023

Marina and Isabel participated at the Gordon Conference "Self-Assembly and Supramolecular Chemistry" in Switzerland

  • April 2023

Fátima, Priscila, Irene, Jacobo, Beatriz and Isabel participated in the III IAdChem 1-day Workshop "Chemical Tools for the Biological World"

Fátima and Priscila won the prize to the best oral comunication and the best poster respectively.

  • March 2023

Welcome to Victor Rodríguez who joined the group as a Phd student. 

Marina carried out a research stay at the University of Barcelona with Prof. Laura Rodríguez Raurell to synthesize and study new materials with Platinium.

Irene was doing a research stay at the "Instituto de Química Avanzada de Cataluña (IQAC-CSIC)" in Barcelona with Dr. Silvia Pujals to study different microscopy techniques.

  • February 2023

Welcome to Beatriz Torres and Miriam Vos , who joined the group as a Master students, and Helena..., and Arantxa as a last year Bachelor students!

Our Work “Bis-porphyrin tetragonal prisms assembled through Watson-Crick hydrogen bonding between complementary nucleobases” has been published in Journal of Porphyrins ans Phthalocyanines.

  • January 2023

Marina presented an oral communication in the "I Phd Multidisciplinary Chemical Congress"  in Gijón. 

  • December 2022

Priscila participated in the "12th early stage researchers worshop in nanoscience" in IMDEA nanociencia (Madrid)

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  • November 2022

Jacobo Veiga Herrero joined the group as a Predoctoral researcher

  • September 2022

Our director David González Rodríguez, has obtained his place as a full professor at the University Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). CONGRATULATIONS!

Priscila Gia Belduma joined the group as a FPI Predoctoral researcher

  • July 2022

Marina, Alberto and David participated in the XII  International Conference on Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP) in Madrid

A Ramón y Cajal fellowship was awarded to Dra. Fátima Aparicio. Congratulations!

News: Noticias
  • June 2022

Marina has won the best poster award in the XXXVIII meeting biennial of RSEQ in Granada sponsored by JACS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Irene, Isabel, Marina, Fernando, Alberto and David participated in the XXXVIII meeting biennial of "Real Sociedad Española de Química" (RSEQ) in Granada.

  • March 2022

Our Work “Self-Sorting Governed by Chelate Cooperativity” has been published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. Special congratulations to David and Carlos. Great work!

Irene, Marina, Isabel and David participated in the XVIII escuela nacional de Materiales Moleculares (ENMM) in Sanctiago de Compostela.

Dr. Javier Araujo Morera joined the group as a Postdoctoral researcher. Welcome Javier!

Marina, Isabel and David participated in the 2nd meeting of the Supramolecular Chemistry Network “Supramat” in Palma de Mallorca.

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  • February 2022

Welcome to Priscila Gia, Jacobo Veiga, Diego Kieran and Sergio Real, who joined the group as a Master students!

 

 

Welcome to Beatriz Torres and Marta Durán, who joined the group as a last year Bachelor students!

  • January 2022

A Margarita Salas Fellowship was awarded to Dr. Fernando García Guijarro, coming from UCLM, and joined the group as a Postdoctoral researcher.

  • Semtember 2021

Our work "Chiral nanotubes self-assembled from discrete non-covalent macrocycles" was published in Chem.Commun.​

  • June 2021

Gorka Barquero won the poster of XII Symposium of Master in Organic Chemistry

Our work "The Role of Peripheral Amide Groups as Hydrogen-Bonding Directors in the Tubular Self-Assembly of Dinucleobase Monomers." is published in ChemPlusChem

 

  • May 2021

David Serrano Molina defended his thesis “ Functional Multicomponent Hydrogen-Bonded Macrocycles" on 28th May. 

  • April 2021:

Paula Martínez Arjona joined the group as a Predoctoral Research

  • February 2021:

Gorka Barquero and Miguel Sanchez-Rubio joined the group as a Master student

  • January 2021:

Our work "Crystalline supramolecular organic frameworks via hydrogen-bonding between nucleobases." published in Chem. Commun.

Our work "Exploring the tubular self-assembly landscape of dinucleobase amphiphiles in water." in published in Org. Chem Front.

 

 

Our work "Dinucleoside-Based Macrocycles Displaying Unusually Large Chelate Cooperativities." is published in Chem. Rec.

  • November 2020:

Our work " Dual-Mode Chiral Self-Assembly of Cone-Shaped Subphthalocyanine Aromatics " is published in J. Am. Chem. Soc.

  • October 2020: 

 A Marie Skłodowska-Curie Intraeuropean Fellowship was awarded to Dr. Alberto de Juan  Nanostructured Supramolecular Polymers with Allosterically Regulated Catalytic Interstices (SuprAlloCat-897507) https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/897507

 

  • July 2020:

Our work " Nanostructured Micelle Nanotubes Self-assembled from Dinucleobase Monomers in Water " is published as a VIP paper in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.

  • April 2020:

Our work “Functional Systems Derived from Nucleobase Self-assembly” is published in ChemistryOpen.

 

  • March 2020:

​Our work " Elucidating Noncovalent Reaction Mechanisms: G-Quartet as an Intermediate in G-Quadruplex Assembly" is published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.

  • February 2020:

Miguel Martín Arroyo defended his thesis “Materiales Supramoleculares basados en Redes Autoensambladas por Interacciones de Enlace de Hidrógeno Cooperativas”on 13th February. We were happy to have Miguel García Iglesias, Eva M. García Frutos, Aurelio Mateo Alonso, David Mecerreyes and Felix Zamora as jury members. 

  • September 2019:

Irene Sancho Casado joined the group as a Predoctoral researcher

Dr. Alberto de Juan joined the group as a Postdoctoral researcher

Our work " Noncovalent Synthesis of Self-Assembled Nanotubes through Decoupled Hierarchical Cooperative Processes" is published in J. Am. Chem. Soc.

  • July 2019:

Dr. Alberto de Juan was awarded a Juan de la Cierva fellowship with the group

  • June 2019:

Raquel Chamorro defended her thesis “Reconocimiento Molecular con Nanoanillos y Nanotubos Autoensamblados” on 14th June. We were happy to have Carmen Maestro, Beatriu Escuder, Andrés de la Escosura, Thomas Hermans and Nazario Martin as jury members.

Our feature article " Guidelines for the assembly of hydrogen-bonded macrocycles" is published in Chem. Comm.

  • May 2019:

Together with Pau Ballester, the group organizes the symposium “Supramolecular Chemistry at the Frontier of Molecular, Materials and   Biological Sciences” at the 37th Biennial Meeting of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry in San Sebastian. We thank Bert Meijer, Chris Hunter, Helma Wennemers and Steven de Feyter for their invited lectures. 

  • April 2019: 

Marina González Sánchez joined the group as a Predoctoral researcher

  • February 2019:

A Marie Skłodowska-Curie Intraeuropean Fellowship was awarded to Dr. Anselmo del Prado Enhancing Self-healing Properties in Polymer Materials through Cooperative Supramolecular Interactions (CoopHeal-843090)

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  • January 2019: 

Isabel López Martin joined the group as a FPI Predoctoral researcher

  • December 2018:

Sonia Romero Pérez defended her thesis “Novel Self-assembled Nanostructures based on the DNA Architecture” on 14th December. We were happy to have Salomé Rodriguez Morgade, Luc Brunsveld, Alvaro Somoza, Felix Freire and Berta Gómez Lor as jury members

  • November 2018:

An FPI Fellowship was awarded to Isabel López Martin

  • September 2018:

Violeta Vázquez defended her thesis on 28th September. We were happy to have G. de la Torre, A. P. H. J. Schenning, G. Fernández, L. Sánchez and E. Ortí as jury members

Dr. Anselmo del Prado joined the group as Postdoctoral researcher

  • August 2018:

Our work "Understanding Complex Supramolecular Landscapes: Non-covalent Macrocyclization Equilibria Examinated by Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer" is published in Chem. Sci.

  • April 2018:

Our work "Reversible dispersion and release of carbon nanotubes via cooperative clamping interactions with hydrogen-bonded nanorings" in colaboration with Dr. Emilio Perez is published in Chem. Sci.

  • March 2018:

Dra. Sara Sierra and Paula Chamorro joined the group as Postdoctoral and PhD researchers respectively

  • February 2018:

A Marie Skłodowska-Curie Intraeuropean Fellowship was awarded to Dr. Fátima Aparicio Self-assembled Tubular Nanostructures with Functional Pores (Nanospace-793506) https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/793506

The group was awarded an ERC-Proof-of-Concept Grant "PolyHeal"

  • January 2018:

The group was awarded a Spanish MINECO grant

  • November 2017:

Our work "How Large Can We Build A Cyclic Assembly? Impact of Ring Size on Chelate Cooperativity in Noncdovalent Macrocyclizations" is published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.

  • October 2017:

Mateja Dud joined the group as an Erasmus+ student for a 3-month stay

  • September 2017:

Our work "Ferroelectric self-assembled molecular materials showing both rectifying and switchable conductivity" is published in Science Adv.

  • July 2017:

Carlos Montoro defended his thesis on 14th July. We were happy to have M. V. Martínez Díaz, B. Gómez Lor, J. R. Granja, H. L. Anderson     and P. Ballester as jury members

  • June 2017:

Dra. Nerea Bilbao was awarded the "Extraordinary Prize" for her Thesis at the UAM

  • May 2017:

Dra. Ana M. Conde and Dr. Manuel C. Martos joined the group as Postdoctoral researchers

  • March 2017:

Dr. Germán Zango and David Serrano joined the group as Pstdoctoral and PhD researchers respectively

  • January 2017:

The group was awarded an ERC-Proof-of-Concept Grant

  • November 2016:

Carlos Montoro was awarded the Best Oral Communication Prize for his talk "Hydrogen-bonded cyclic assemblies from dinucleoside monomers" in the XIII RSEQ-Sigma-Aldrich Young Investigator Symposium

 

  • June 2016:

Miguel Martín was awarded the Best Poster Prize "Toward Hydrogen-bonded Porous Organic Frameworks from a DNA-base Toolkit" in the 1st Polymat Spotlight Symposium

  • April 2016:

Carlos Montoro was awarded second prize in the SUSCHEM-JIQ 2016 Awards for his paper "High-fidelity Noncovalent Synthesis of Hydrogen-bonded Macrocyclic Assemblies"

  • February 2016:

Nerea Bilbao defended her thesis on 12th February

  • January 2016: 

Our work "Role of the Symmetry of Multipoint Hydrogen Bonding on Chelate Cooperativity in Supramolecular Macrocyclization Processes" accepted in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.

 

Our work "Two-Dimensional Nanoporous Networks Formed by Liquid-to-Solid Transfer of Hydrogen-Bonded Macrocycles Built from DNA Bases" accepted as a HOT Paper in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.

 

  • November 2015:

An FPI Fellowship was awarded to Miguel Martín

 

  • September 2015:

An FPU Fellowship was awarded to Sonia Romero.

Dr. Subi J. George is visiting our group in 17th September.

  • March 2015:

Our work "High-fidelity Noncovalent Synthesis of Hydrogen-bonded Macrocyclic Assemblies" accepted as a VIP Paper in Angew. Chem.Int. Ed..

  • July 2021

A JIN Individual Fellowship was awarded to Dra. Fátima Aparicio.

  • October 2021

A novel "Proof-of-Concept" Proyect was awaded to the group: Analysis of the Market Possibilities of Nobel Self-Healing Plastic Coatings (HealCoat-PDC2021-121487-100)

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