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:

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:

Advances and Applications in Carbon Related Nanomaterials: From pure to doped structures including heteroatom layers.
December 11th-15th 2017.
Benasque (Aragon), Spain.
Chairman: Raúl Arenal.
More information.

4th Congress University Nova de Lisboa-University of Yamaguchi-Univesity of Zaragoza: “Engineering at the service of our society: From nanotechnology to megastructures”.
Oct. 19th-20th 2017.
Zaragoza, Spain.

RetroNanotech es un proyecto en el que se analiza la visión futurista de la Nanociencia en la historia reciente a través de diferentes clásicos cinematográficos de ciencia ficción que se convierten en el punto de partida para analizar el contexto científico, social y cultural en el que se desarrollan.

El miércoles que viene día 18de Octubre, se proyectará la primera película de la segunda edición del ciclo “El monstruo magnético” (“The magnetic monster”, 1953).

El Magnetismo y sus aplicaciones han estado presentes en todas las revoluciones científico técnicas de la Humanidad, y hoy en día se configuran también como relevantes en el ámbito de la nanotecnología.

Se proyectarán fragmentos de la película y se realizará una lectura de la mano de Luis Morellón (Catedrático. Grupo de investigación: MAGNA del Departmento Física de la Materia Condensada. Instituto de Nanociencia de Aragón) para analizar la parte científica histórica y la evolución producida y de Túa Blesa, ( Catedrático del Departamento de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada) que analizará el contexto cultural y su reflejo en la sociedad.

¿Cuándo? El miércoles 18 de Octubre a las 19.00h.

¿Dónde? En la Sala CAI LUZAN de la Fundación CAI en Zaragoza, en Paseo Independencia.

Featured in research:

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)”.