Category Archives: Scientific Highlights
Atomistic Simulations of COSAN: Amphiphiles without a Head‐and‐Tail Design Display “Head and Tail” Surfactant Behavior
COSAN molecule experimentally behaves like a classical surfactant!!!! Read more.
A new stimuli responsive carborane-containing ABC triblock terpolymer
Optimized nanowire array-shaped ITO electrodes
Tuning the deposition parameters for optimizing the faradaic and non-faradaic electrochemical performance of nanowire array-shaped ITO electrodes prepared by electron beam evaporation R. Pruna, M. López, F. Teixidor, Nanoscale 2019, 11, 276-284.
A novel metallacarborane based potentiometric microsensor
A novel potentiometric microsensor for real-time detection of Irgarol using the ion-pair complex [Irgarol-H]+[Co(C2B9H11)2] A. Saini, J. Gallardo-Gonzalez, A. Baraket, I. Fuentes, C. Viñas, N. Zine, J. Bausells, F. Teixidor, A. Errachid, Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 2018, 268, 164-169.
All inorganic coordination polymers
All inorganic coordination polymers have been made possible with the m-carboranylphosphinate ligand E. Oleshkevich, I. Romero, F. Teixidor, C. Viñas, Dalton Trans. 2018, 47, 14785-14798.
Metallacarboranes on the Road to Anticancer Therapies
Frontispiece: Metallacarboranes on the Road to Anticancer Therapies: Cellular Uptake, DNA Interaction, and Biological Evaluation of Cobaltabisdicarbollide [COSAN]− I. Fuentes, T. García-Mendiola, S. Sato, M. Pita, H. Nakamura, E. Lorenzo, F. Teixidor, F. Marques, C. Viñas, Chem. Eur. J. 2018, … Continue reading
Photoluminescence in m-carborane-anthracene triads
Photoluminescence in m-carborane–anthracene triads: a combined experimental and computational study M. Chaari, Z. Kelemen, J. G. Planas, F. Teixidor, D. Choquesillo-Lazarte, A. Ben Salah, C. Viñas, R. Núñez, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2018, 6, 11336-11347.
New Photoluminescent Carborane-BODIPY Materials
Carborane‐BODIPY Dyads: New Photoluminescent Materials through an Efficient Heck Coupling C. Bellomo, M. Chaari, J. Cabrera-González, M. Blangetti, C. Lombardi, A. Deagostino, C. Viñas, N. Gaztelumendi, C. Nogués, R. Nuñez, C. Prandi, Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 15622-15630.
Stimuli-responsive materials that switch from nano-porous 3D structures to new non-porous 2D structures and vice versa using spherical ligands
An Unprecedented Stimuli‐Controlled Single‐Crystal Reversible Phase Transition of a Metal–Organic Framework and Its Application to a Novel Method of Guest Encapsulation F. Tan, A. M. López-Periago, M. E. Light, J. Cirera, E. Ruiz, A. Borrás, F. Teixidor, C. Viñas, C. … Continue reading
Minimalist Prion-Inspired Polar Self-Assembling Peptides
Minimalist Prion-Inspired Polar Self-Assembling Peptides M. Díaz-Caballero, S. Navarro, I. Fuentes, F. Teixidor, S. Ventura, ACS Nano 2018, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b00417.