UB Expertise

MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF SYSTEMS AND PROPERTIES OF MATTER IN THE NANOSCALE

• Confinement-related phenomena: reactivity, magnetism, optoelectronics and quantum photonics.
• Transport and conduction
• Surface effects
• Electronic structure and excitations
• Bose-Einstein condensates and confined quantum gases

NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY

• Surface functionalization.
• Molecular and cellular biomechanics.
• Biomimetic structures and systems.
• Nanofluidics and nanorobotics. Nanomotors.
• Nanomedicine diagnosis: molecular marking and observation.
• Nanobiosensors; DNA and protein chips; lab-on-a-chip.

LASER TECHNOLOGY

• Laser ablation deposition of hydroxyapatite coatings for medical prostheses.
• Fast image acquisition in laser ablation plumes and analysis via optical emission spectroscopy.
• Laser surface treatments.
• Laser marking of titanium and ceramics for decorative applications.
• Laser micromachining.
• Laser induced forward transfer. deposition of biomolecules for biosensors
• Application of laser processing to Microfluidics.
• Preparation via Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD), and characterization of oxide thin films with functional properties.

NANOPHARMACOTHERAPY

• Nanostructured systems for controlled drug release. Nanocapsules.
• Interaction between nanostructured systems and biological structures.
• Bioavailability, toxicity and therapeutic efficacy of nanostructured systems
• Gene therapy – non-viral vectors
• Pharmacogenomics and nutrigenomics
• Molecular internalization. Molecular marking. Detoxification.
• Nanomagnetism, nanoelectronics and nanophotonics.
• Magnetic nanoparticles and unimolecular magnets.
• Nanomagnetic dynamic processes. Interaction with microwaves.
• Magnetoelectronics.
• NEMS (nanoelectromechanical systems).
• Electronic, optoelectronic and photonic nanodevices, nanosensors and nanosystems.
• Photonic crystals.

NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS

• Synthesis, nanomachining and nanomanipulation.
• Thin films, nanostructured multilayers and coatings.
• Nanoparticles, gels, nanofibres, nanowires and nanorods.
• Nanostructured metal oxides.
• Nanocomposites.
• Mesoporous materials and nanopatterns.

NANO-ENERGY: PRODUCTION, STORAGE & ENVIRONMENT

• Catalytic nanostructures for energy production. Fuel cells.
• Nanomaterials for solar cells and photocatalytic processes.
• Nanostructured systems for energy storage.
• Functional nanorods and nanowires
• Pollution and gas-detecting nanosensors.