Symposium U: Design of multifunctional nano-objects for biomedical applications

• Víctor Puntes will be giving the talk “Designing Nanobots to fight Cancer” on Tuesday May 28 at 11:15.

Symposium F: Nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage

• Neus Bastús will give the talk “Synthesis and Catalytic Properties of Metal and Metal-based Hybrid Nanoparticles” on Wednesday May 29 at 9:45.
• Jordi Piella will presenting the poster “Size tailoring of TiO2 nanoparticles via agglomeration state and its relation to photocatalytic properties” on Monday May 27 at 16:30.

Symposium Q: Bionanomaterials for imaging, sensing and actuating

• Eudald Casals will be giving the talk “Reactivity of Engineered Inorganic Nanoparticles: Insights into nanotoxicity mechanisms” on Thursday May 30 at 11.40.
• Joan Comenge will be giving the talk “Gold Nanoparticles as agents for drug delivery: Detoxifying the chemotherapeutic drug cisplatin” on Wednesday May 29 at 14:50.
• Ngoc Tran will be presenting the poster “Nanoparticle Behaviour in Contact with Different Body Fluids: From Sweat to Serum” on Tuesday May 28 at 16:00.
• Sofía Rubio will be presenting the poster “The same formulation, a different effect. Controlling conformation of NanoBioconjugates” on Tuesday May 28 at 16:00.

We look forward to participating of this major event!

For more information on the conference, please see: http://www.emrs-strasbourg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=569&Itemid=1583

Registration is open till May 15.

After the success of Nanosafe 2008 and Nanosafe 2010, the 3rd. edition Nanosafe 2012 was held from November 13 to 15, 2012, in Minatec, Grenoble, France. This conference is organized as part of the NANOSAFE project, an EU-FP7 project focused on the potential impact of nanomaterials on human health and the environment.

Our group participated with four talks and their corresponding conference proceedings; we also co-authored a fifth article presented by our collaborators at LEITAT:

• Talk Exploring release and recovery of nanoparticles from polymer nanocomposites using commercial polyamide-based nanocomposites by Martí Busquets, on November 13, at 18:00. Publication: Busquets-Fité, M., Fernandez, E., Janer, G., Vilar, G., Vázquez-Campos, S., Zanasca, R., et al. (2013). Exploring release and recovery of nanomaterials from commercial polymeric nanocomposites. J. Phys.: Conf. Ser., 429, 012048.
• Talk Characterizing nanoparticles reactivity: structure-Photocatalytic activity by Jordi Piella, on November 15, at 13:45. Publication: Piella, J., Bastús, N. G., Casals, E., & Puntes, V. (2013). Characterizing Nanoparticles Reactivity: Structure-Photocatalytic Activity Relationship. J. Phys.: Conf. Ser., 429, 012040.
• Talk Colloidaly stable, polymer encapsulated quantum dots for biological applications by Isaac Ojea-Jiménez, on November 13, at 17:45. Publication: Ojea-Jiménez, I., Piella, J., Nguyen, T. – L., Bestetti, A., Ryan, A. D., & Puntes, V. (2013). Stability of polymer encapsulated quantum dots in cell culture media. J. Phys.: Conf. Ser., 429, 012009.
• Talk The social context of nanotechnology and Regulating its uncertainty: a nanotechnologist approach by Vincent Jamier, on November 15, at 11:30. Publication: Jamier, V., Gispert, I., & Puntes, V. (2013). The social context of nanotechnology and regulating its uncertainty: A nanotechnologist approach. J. Phys.: Conf. Ser., 429, 012059.
• Talk Monitoring migration and transformation of nanomaterials in polymeric composites during climatic aging by Gemma Vilar, on November 15, at 11:30. Publication: Vilar, G., Fernández-Rosas, E., Puntes, V., Jamier, V., Aubouy, L., & Vázquez-Campos, S. (2013). Monitoring migration and transformation of nanomaterials in polymeric composites during accelerated aging. J. Phys.: Conf. Ser., 429, 012044.

Conference website and program: http://www.nanosafe.org/scripts/home/publigen/content/templates/show.asp?P=124&L=EN&SYNC=Y

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