PROJECTS

The group participate in several national and international projects. Some of the EU projects are:

ONE-P (Organic Nanomaterials for Electronics and Photonics: Design, Synthesis, Characterization, Processing, Fabrication and Applications) Large Scale Integrated Project
The Organic Nanomaterials for Electronics and Photonics project will develop the missing high-performance, low-cost multifunctional materials and their process technology to strengthen industrialization of the electronics and photonics sector in Europe thanks to the synergy between academic and industrial research and the integration of complementary competences.
 
CHEXTAN (Chiral expression and Transfer at the Nanoscale) Marie Curie Training Network
The Network addresses the study at the nanoscale of the chiral interactions between molecules themselves and between molecules and surfaces and explores the upshots of chiral structure on the resulting nanostructures.
 
MAGMANet (Molecular Approach to Nanomagnets and Multifunctional Materials) Network of Excellence
MAGMANet in which 9 permanent researchers and contracted PhDs together with 4 PhD students take part.
The aim of this Excellence Network is the coordination of activities and the integration of 15 European laboratories that work in the field of Molecular Magnetic Materials with the ultimate aim of setting up a European Institute of Magnetism.
 
FUMASSEC (Functional Materials to Storage, Sensing, Electronics & Catalisys) Marie Curie Early Stages Training partnership
The FUMASSEC consortium brings together the University of Nottingham, UK, the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France, and the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC) in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
The consortium aims to train PhD-level personnel to the highest possible levels in a range of high profile interdisciplinary projects using multifunctional nanomaterials for sustainable development.
 
FUNSMARTS (Assembly and Manipulation of Functional Supramolecular Nano-Architectures at surfaces) ESF EUROCORES programme SONS
The objective of the proposed studies is the investigation and deliberate steering of supramolecular self-organization using complex molecules at well-defined substrates for the fabrication of functional nanostructures. The underlying molecular self-assembly will exploit different non-covalent interactions (metal coordination, hydrogen bonding, donor–acceptor interactions) which are directly characterized at the single-molecule level by means of scanning tunneling microscopy techniques.