Research

World-leading research in three priority areas: Nanobiomedicine, Nanostructured Materials, and Physics of Nanosystems

Academic

Training young researchers through internships, master,  Ph-D programs and grants.

Innovation

Creation of new companies, knowledge transfer and active collaboration with companies

Infrastructures

A unique infrastructure, which includes a National Facility, for the fabrication and characterization of nanostructured materials

Highlighted pieces of news:

March 18th 2019.

Ricardo Ibarra, Director del INA, premio internacional en Materiales Avanzados 2019.

March 18th 2019.

Objetivo: La ciencia de lo muy pequeño (min. 1 to 12).

Feb. 8th 2019.

Una investigadora de Zaragoza, premiada por desarrollar nanomateriales para celdas solares.

Feb. 8th 2019.

Seleccionados los 12 semifinalistas de la séptima edición de FameLab España.

Oct. 19th 2018.

El Instituto de Nanociencia de Aragón juega ya en la liga mundial.

Oct. 28th 2018.

Investigación: Guerra a los agentes neurotóxicos

Oct. 17th 2018.

“La aventura del saber”. Universo Sostenible ¿La gran solución? (min. 28 to 37).

April 2nd 2018.

¿Qué pasa si inhalamos nanopartículas de diseño?.

Dec. 26th 2017.

Grandes Titanes en la creación de materiales que antes no existían.

Oct. 24th 2017.

Finalistas. Premios Tercer Milenio.

Oct. 22nd 2017.

Nanociencia, un filón para la industria.

Sept. 1st 2017.

El Instituto de Nanociencia de Aragón lleva su exposición “Bienvenidos a la Nanodimensión” al Museo del Gas.

Aug. 31st 2017.

El oro podría elevar la eficacia de los fármacos anticancerígeno.

Aug. 30th 2017.

Las nanopartículas de oro activan los tratamientos contra el cáncer.

Aug. 27th 2017.

Nanociencia: Llega el quinto estado de la materia.

Nanociencia: Faltaba estaba llave.

July 31st 2017:

Cara B: Ricardo Ibarra, Director del Instituto de Nanociencia de Aragón.

July 19th 2017:

Científicos del INA, artífices de un logro que impulsará nuevas aplicaciones de los dispositivos electrónicos convencionales.

June 12th 2017:

The ARAID & INA researcher Raúl Arenal has just joined the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) as a member. The YAE is a pan-European initiative of outstanding young scientists for networking, scientific exchange and science policy.

May 16th 2017:

The chemical engineer Dr Víctor Sebastián has just received a Marie  Skłodowska-Curie award for his research work in the Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon. His European project Platform2Nano (2012-2016) has been distinguished with the 2^nd prize in the category “Contribution for a better society” in the conference “Mobility Takes Research Further”, organized by Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA 2017) in the framework of the presidency of Malta in the Council of the European Union.

April 19th 2017:

Prof. Jesús Santamaría has obtained an ERC Advanced Grant project on a new method for cancer treatment based on cathalysis at cellular level. Financial support of € 2.5 M will allow to develop and promote the research in the area of nanobiomedicine.

News in Spanish newspapers:  INA made headlines in….

November 7th 2016: Zaragoza, capital de la nanotecnología.

November 6th 2016: Investigación. La magia de lo más pequeño.

INA made healines in… (complete list of pieces of news).

Events:

Siente la nanotecnología.

 

Excellentia ex Cathedra. Cápsulas de nanotecnología.

Excellentia ex Cathedra, No 1, Jan. 2019.

Featured in research:

Continuous microwave-assisted synthesis of silver nanoclusters confined in mesoporous SBA-15: Application in alkyne cyclizations.

Roberta Manno, Prabhat Ranjan, Victor Sebastian, Reyes Mallada, Silvia Irusta, Upendra K. Sharma, Erik V. Van der Eycken, Jesús Santamaría.

Chem. Mater. 2020, 32, 7, 2874-2883. Published: 18 Feb. 2020. COVER PAGE.

DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.9b04935.

Gold-decorated magnetic nanoparticles design for hyperthermia applications and as a potential platform for their surface-functionalization.

L. León Félix, B. Sanz, V. Sebastián, T.E. Torres, M.H. Sousa, J.A.H. Coaquira, M.R. Ibarra, G.F. Goya.

Nature Scientific Reports, Volume 9, Article number: 4185 (2019). Published online: 12 March 2019.

This article has received 1, 761 article downloads in 2019, placing it as one of the top 100 downloaded materials science papers for Scientific Reports in 2019.

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-40769-2.

Exosome origin determines cell targeting and the transfer of therapeutic nanoparticles towards target cells.

M. Sancho-Albero, N. Navascués, G. Mendoza, V. Sebastián, M. Arruebo, P. Martín-Duque, J. Santamaría.

Journal of Nanobiotechnology. 2019 17:16. Published: 25 Jan. 2019.

DOI: 10.1186/s12951-018-0437-z. ARTICLE OF THE YEAR 2019.

Molecular basis for fibroblast growth factor 23 O-glycosylation by GalNAc-T3.

Matilde de las Rivas, Earnest James Paul Daniel, Yoshiki Narimatsu, Ismael Compañón, Kentaro Kato, Pablo Hermosilla, Aurélien Thureau, Laura Ceballos-Laita, Helena Coelho, Pau Bernadó, Filipa Marcelo, Lars Hansen, Ryota Maeda, Anabel Lostao, Francisco Corzana, Henrik Clausen, Thomas A. Gerken & Ramon Hurtado-Guerrero.

Nature Chemical Biology. 2020.

DOI: 10.1038/s41589-019-0444-x.

• The effect of hydrogen peroxide on the synthesis of terephthalate‐based metal‐organic frameworks.

  R. Monteagudo-Oliván, I. Jiménez-Fernández, P. López-Ram-de-Viu, V. Sebastián, J. Coronas.

  ChemPlusChem, Volume 85, Issue 1, Jan. 2020, pages 68.73. COVER PAGE.

  DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201900492.

• Non-oxidative methane conversion in microwave-assisted structured reactors.

  I. Julián, H. Ramírez, J.L. Hueso, R. Mallada, J. Santamaría.

  Chemical Engineering Journal, 377 (2019), 119764. COVER PAGE.

  DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2018.08.150.

Cover caption: Caution! Microwaves at work: The combination of structured monolithic catalysts and monomodal microwave cavities favors the non-oxidative coupling of methane into light hydrocarbons and benzene while preventing the large and immediate formation of higher polyaromatic species due to the rapid temperature gradients observed that minimize coquization and polymerizations observed under conventional heating conditions.

Polyoxometalates as alternative Mo precursors for methane dehydroaromatization on Mo/ZSM-5 and Mo/MCM-22 catalysts.

Ignacio Julián, José L. Hueso, Nidya Lara, Albert Solé-Daurá, Josep M. Poblet, Scott G. Mitchell, Reyes Mallada and Jesús Santamaría.

Catal. Sci. Technol., 2019, 9, 5927. Accepted, 29 August 2019. BACK COVER.

DOI: 10.1039/c9cy01490j.

Cancer-derived exosomes loaded with ultrathin palladium nanosheets for targeted bioorthogonal catalysis.

M. Sancho-Albero, B. Rubio-Ruiz, A.M. Pérez-López, V. Sebastián, P. Martín-Duque, M. Arruebo, J. Santamaría, A. Unciti-Broceta.

Nature Catalysis (2019). Published 9 Sep. 2019

DOI: 10.1038/s41929-019-0333-4.

Continuous microfluidic synthesis of Pd nanocubes and PdPt core–shell nanoparticles and their catalysis of NO₂ reduction.

Anna Pekkari, Zafer Say, Arturo Susarrey-Arce, Christoph Langhammer, Hanna Härelind, Victor Sebastian, Kasper Moth-Poulsen.

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2019, 11. Published: 16 Aug. 2019.

DOI: acsami.9b09701.

Ce–Sm–xCu cost-efficient catalysts for H2 production through the glycerol steam reforming reaction.

Kyriaki Polychronopoulou, Nikolaos D. Charisiou, Georgios I. Siakavelas, Ayesha A. AlKhoori, Víctor Sebastián, Steven J. Hinder, Mark A. Baker, Maria A. Goula.

Sustainable Energy Fuels, 2019, 3, 673. Published 11 Dec. 2018.

DOI: 10.1039/c8se00388b. COVER PAGE.

Controlling the dominant magnetic relaxation mechanisms for magnetic hyperthermia in bimagnetic core–shell nanoparticles.

Nanoscale. Accepted, 28 Nov. 2018. Published: 29 Nov. 2018. BACK COVER PAGE.

DOI: 10.1039/c8nr07834c.

Arte y ciencia se funden en un trabajo del Instituto de Nanociencia de Aragón.

2nd National Honours End-of-Degree Award: Isabel Ortiz de Solórzano.

Resomer Award 2017.

Luminescent mesoporous nanorods as photocatalytic enzyme-like peroxidase surrogates.

Chemical Science. COVER.

ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering: “Sustainable production of drug-loaded particles by membrane emulsification”. COVER PAGE.

Biochemical Journal: “Molecular basis for the integration of environmental signals by FurB from Anabaena sp. PCC 7120″. COVER PAGE.

Applied Materials & Interfaces: Pumping metallic nanoparticles with spatial precision within magnetic mesoporous platforms: 3D characterization and catalytic application.

Nature Nanotechnology: Electric polarization switching in an atomically thin binary rock salt structure.

Angewandte Chemie International Edition: “Gold-triggered uncaging chemistry in living systems”. COVER PAGE.

Nature Scientific Reports: “The FAD synthetase from the human pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae: a bifunctional enzyme exhibiting activity-dependent redox requirement”.

Nano Letters: “Chemical disorder in topological insulators: A route to magnetism tolerant topological surface states”.

Related piece of news: Científicos del INA, artífices de un logro que impulsará nuevas aplicaciones de los dispositivos electrónicos convencionales.

Applied Materials & Interfaces (cover page): “Bactericidal effect of gold-chitosan nanocomposites in coculture models of pathogenic bacteria and human macrophages”.

Nanoscale (cover page): “Titania-coated gold nanorods with expanded photocatalytic response. Enzyme-like glucose oxidation under near-infrared illumination”.

Crystal Grow & Design: “Microfluidic assisted synthesis of hybrid Au-Pd Dummble-like nanostructures: Sequential addition of reagents and ultrasonic radiation”.

Environment Science & Technology: “Microcystin-LR binds iron and iron promotes self-assembly”.

Chemistry A European Journal: “Nitrogen-induced transformation of vitamin C into multifunctional up-converting carbon nanodots in the visible-NIR range”.

Small: “All-carbon electrode molecular electronic devices based on Langmuir–Blodgett monolayers”.

Angewandte Chemie: “A nanoarchitecture based on silver and copper oxide with an exceptional response in the chlorine-promoted epoxidation of ethylene”.

Angewandte Chemie: “Removal of multiple contaminants from water by polyxometalate supported ionic liquid phases (POM-SILPs)”.