The chemistry of halogens is part of the cycle in the fabrication of multiple chemicals. That alone explains the importance of having a closed halogen loop so this process occurs in an efficient and sustainable manner. That “recycling” idea is what Prof. Javier Pérez-Ramirez (aCe Catalisys Engineering at ETH Hönggerberg) wanted to picture in this image, which made it to the cover of Chemical Reviews.
Imagine having your your battery charger printed on your clothes or on the screen of your cellphone… this is what Organic Nanostructured Photovoltaics group, at ICFO is proposing. The use of organic electronics allows the production of flexible cells which happen to be highly inefficient. By layering nanoparticles in a clever way, they’ve been able to increase the performance of these devices, thus solving the problem.
With the help of Dr. Silvia Colodrero, we created this picture which made it to the cover of Advanced Functional Materials.
While preparing the 2016 demoreel, I’ve just found two covers I did during last year I was totally unaware of… This seems to be alive beyond my control.
If you want to know about cool stuff going on in the optics field, check out the Advanced Imaging Lab, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Now they’ve come up with a way to make Widefield Lensless Endoscopy via Speckle Correlations. In short, this means smaller devices and better quality images by using speckle correlations in multicore fibers.
To illustrate it, and requested by Dr. Ori Katz we did this image for them. It made it to the inside cover of OPN.
Working with them gets you in a state of something in between astonishment and “… you sure this is really possible???”. Like that time in 2014, when they claimed they were able to recover images through scattering layers and around corners. Well, it happened to be so true, it was published in Nature Photonics.
We’ve just finished the new Phonometa’s website, a research group that explores a not so common area of condensed matter physics: physical acoustics, elasticity, and vibrating engineered fluids or solids.
Phonometa’s head, Johan Christensen, has just arrived from Denmark to establish his group at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Interesting stuff is going to come out of this.
For the first time, a solid proof of the quantized nature of thermal transport in single atom junctions. That’s it.
While quantized electrical conductance was pretty well known and proof for quite a while, quantized thermal transport observation was still slipping away from researchers eyes. Until now.
A group of researchers from Michigan University, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and Universität Konstanz have managed to reach the amazing levels of accuracy and stability this measurement requires.
This changes the game. And we had the opportunity to make this explanatory video for them with the help of Prof. J. C. Cuevas (UAM) and Longji Cui (UMICH). One of those times when your job pays off.
Here we present the IFT (Instituto de física teórica). Filmociencia has directed this beautiful video to present this research institute and the amazing environment they offer to students and researchers.
We have collaborated with them performing a small presentation effect.
At Cristina Flors’s research group they have been able to study bacterial death in real time. Bacterial death is induced through the combination of light and photosensitizers. This way it is possible inspect the pathway of photodynamic damage at the single-cell level.
Their work has been awarded with the cover of February’s issue of the Journal of Biophotonics.
It is always a pleasure to work with our friends in Filmociencia. They are the directors of what it is going to be a series of videos about risk for the ICMAT and funded by AXA Research Fund.
And we at Scixel did the graphics for it.
Want to learn more about risk and its modelling? Be on the watch for more videos!
As said before, Dr. Lanza’s research group doesn’t seem to sleep at all. Their recent work on water splitting has earned the cover of Journal of Materials Chemistry A.
