The Department of Molecular Nanoscience and Organic Materials (NMMO) aspires to develop new functional molecular materials and nanoscopic systems with important electrical, magnetic, and/or optical properties, as well as the discovery of new procedures and strategies to obtain, process, and manipulate them. The approaches to these objectives draw on the experience of the group members, which cover a wide spectrum of disciplines — from organic free radicals, molecular metals, and stereochemistry to synthetic, supramolecular and coordination chemistries, as well as nanoscience — and techniques — chromatography (HPLC, GPC), computational chemistry, electro- and photo-chemistry, electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry.

The research we carry out in the Department approaches some of the most exciting and challenging fields that a chemist and a materials scientist can explore nowadays — the study of advanced functional materials with a purely organic or metal-organic nature (either molecular solids or polymers) and useful electronic (superconductors, metallic conductors, etc), magnetic (ferromagnets, superparamagnets, etc), and/or optical properties, and materials processing using supercritical fluids and nanotechnology.

To carry out all these tasks, the group has profited from collaborations with various other specialist research teams, both in Spain and around the world, and enjoys and encourages these types of interaction, enriching our scientific culture and providing high quality training to our personnel.