Ionic liquid crystals are a class of liquid crystals composed of ions. These compounds are interesting due to their properties as liquid crystals and to their ion conductivity. In this work we have prepared two new families of molecules which show these characteristics.
Meta nanoparticles (MNPs) have interesting applications due to their special chemical and physical properties. This work describes the development of a polymer stabilized with MNPs (PSMNPs), using the membranes of ionic exchange as a nanoreactor.
The advancement of nanoscience and nanotechnology is making possible the creation of new materials based on carbon structures with unique properties and wich have many technological applications. Among these applications there is the improvement of biosensors, devices that perform...
This work describes the synthesis and characterization of a new coordination compound based on cadmium. The study of the interactions between the zinc(II), cadmium(II) and mercury(II) and biomelecules is a very interesting field due to its many applications in, for example,...
![Estructura cristal·lina del complex [Cd(NO3)2(C5H4NCOOEt)2]](/Imatge/449/519/biocadmioIMg.jpg)
Carboranes (clusters composed of boron and carbon atoms) are of great interest in a wide range of applications. Medical scientists have shown a great interest in using them in the boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT). In this work, a family of...
Presently, liquid crystals are compounds of great interest due to their applications mainly in the fields of electronics and optics (displays). Molecules that form them must show thermal, chemical and photochemical stability. Moreover, these compounds must exhibit liquid crystal behaviour for a...
Scientists at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), in cooperation with the CSIC, have developed a new electro-chemical biosensor which detects the presence, in food, of very small amounts of atrazine ?one of the most widely used herbicides in...
Metallic complexes are molecuar structures where a metal is surrounded by other atoms or molecules with negative electric charge. These atoms or molecules that surround the metal are called ligands. UAB researchers are studying a kind of ligands that they have applications in agrochemistry and...
