| Nanotechnology Activities Survey in Spain |
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| Name of the Laboratory |
Nanosystems Statistical Physics-Complex Matter Group
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| Department |
Secció de FÃsica EstadÃstica i Interdisciplinà ria--Dep. de FÃsica de la Materia Condensada |
| Institution |
ICN2 - Institut Catala de Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia |
| Institution (Acronym) |
Nano-Complex |
| Contact Person (e-mail) |
Franzese, Giancarlo
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| Address |
Mart i Franquès 1 |
| Postal code |
08028 |
| Province |
Barcelona |
| Autonomous Region |
Cataluña |
| Country |
Spain |
| Phone |
+34 934039212 |
| Fax |
+34 934021149 |
| Website |
http://www.ffn.ub.es/gfranzese |
| Main Research Areas |
* Nano-Bio-Interactions
* Nano-Safety
* Biological Water
* Proteins
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| Participating Projects |
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* NanoTransKinetics: Modelling basis and kinetics of nanoparti- cle interaction with membranes, uptake into cells, and sub-cellular and inter-compartmental transport - http://www.nanotranskinetics.eu
Coordinator: K. A. Dawson (Coordinator); G. Franzese (Spanish PI): EU-FP7 (993.000 €)
* Hydration in between macromolecules in the supercooled regime of water
Coordinator: G. Franzese: AGAUR (71.000 €)
* Interacciones entre sistemas nanoscopicos y macromoléculas biológicas en presencia de agua
Coordinator: G. Franzese: MINECO (47.000 €)
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| Three more relevant publications within 2013-2016 |
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* 'Understanding the Kinetics of Protein–Nanoparticle Corona Formation'
O. Vilanova, J. J. Mittag, P. M. Kelly, S. Milani, K. A. Dawson, J. O. Rädler, and G. Franzese - ACS Nano, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b04858, (2016)
* 'Structural Interpretation of the Large Slowdown of Water Dynamics at Stacked Phospholipid Mem- branes for Decreasing Hydration Level: All-Atom Molecular Dynamics'
C. Calero, H. E. Stanley and G. Franzese - Materials 9, 319 (2016)
* 'Contribution of Water to Pressure and Cold Denaturation of Proteins'
V. Bianco and G. Franzese - Physical Review Letters 115, 108101 (2015)
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| Instruments and equipment available |
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* CPU-Cluster for Supercomputation: 28 nodes of 64 bits machines, with a total of 400 cores and 768 GB of RAM
* GPU-Cluster for Supercomputation: 6 GPU-plataforms with NVIDIA GTX 760 and 780 motherboards
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| Number of researchers (12) |
| Permanent positions (Prof, Dr) |
1 |
| PhD(contracted) |
1 |
| PhD Students |
1 |
| Technicians |
1 |
| Others |
3 |
| PhD 2013-2016 |
5 |
| PhD Ramon y Cajal (currently) |
0 |
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| Participation in other Networks
Institut de Nanociència i NanotecnologÃa (IN2UB) |
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| Useful web links or contacts for NANOSPAIN
Network
http://www.ub.edu/in2ub |
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