Welcome to INA

INA: a working force of more than 150 researchers looking for fundamental
and applied knowledge in the fields of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

Worldwide dissemination of our results through high impact journals

www.unizar.es/nanomat

Education Master and PhD programs for training new scientists and professionals

Easy access to our last generation instruments along with technical and scientific support

Leading innovation and creation of new companies

A strategic location: Easy and quick access by train,
plane and for those that move by car (free park site)

Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon

The Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon is an interdisciplinary research institute of the University of Zaragoza, created in 2003. Our activity is focused on R+D in nanoscience and nanotechnology, based on the processing and fabrication of structures at the nanoscale and the study of their applications, in collaboration with companies and technological institutes from different areas.

This Institute has been acknowledged to be funded by the Aragonese Government. Grant awarded: Instituto Universitario de Investigación reconocido como financiable por el Gobierno de Aragón. Concesión de la subvención: ORDEN IIU/1381/2017, de 28 de agosto, por la que se resuelve la convocatoria, para el año 2017, de subvenciones destinadas a los Institutos Universitarios de Investigación, propios y mixtos de la Universidad de Zaragoza. BOA No 183, 22/09/2017.

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:

11f_sientelanano_fecyt
Siente la nanotecnología.

8 y 11 febr. 2018, Casa de la Mujer (calle Don Juan de Aragón, 50001 Zaragoza).

Excellentia ex Cathedra. Cápsulas de nanotecnología.

Excellentia ex Cathedra, No 1, Jan. 2019.

Featured in research:

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”.

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)”.