Pegah Sanjarnia, a researcher at POLYMAT, has been recognized with the "2nd Accéssit Poster Award GEP 2024" at the prestigious GEP (Grupo Especializado de Polímeros) conference held in Madrid from 16th to 19th September. Read more

From September 9th to 13th, we had the privilege of hosting the Emulsion Polymerization Processes Course in the stunning city of Donostia-San Sebastián. This year's event brought together 47 attendees from 12 different countries, creating an enriching and diverse learning environment.

Participants had the opportunity to delve into the fascinating world of emulsion polymerization, expanding their knowledge and exchanging ideas with industry experts and fellow professionals.

Thank you to everyone who joined us and made this event a success! Stay tuned for future courses and events at POLYMAT. Read more

We are delighted to announce that our researchers, Danila Merino and Matías Picchio, have been honored with the prestigious title of Ikerbasque Research Fellows. This recognition, awarded by the Ikerbasque Foundation, highlights their dedication and excellence in scientific research. Read more

The Industrial Liaison Programme 2024 was successfully held on September 5th and 6th, bringing together POLYMAT researchers and representatives from 15 international and national companies. This annual event continues to serve as a critical platform for exchanging the latest advancements in polymer research and addressing the current challenges in the industry. Read more

The Basque Center for Macromolecular Design and Engineering, POLYMAT, has been officially recognized with the prestigious María de Maeztu Accreditation during a ceremony held yesterday at CaixaForum in Madrid. The event was presided over by the Minister of Science and Innovation, Diana Morant and also attended by the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Universities, Juan Cigudosa García and brought together representatives from Spain’s leading centers and units of research excellence. Read more

Matías Picchio has been recognized as an Emerging Investigator by both the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and the American Chemical Society (ACS). Read more

Nerea Casado, has received the prestigious ISE Prize for Electrochemical Material Science! Her outstanding contributions in conducting and redox polymers, polymeric mixed ionic-electronic conductors for energy storage, and expanding into bioelectronics have been recognized.  Read more

Within the last three years, POLYMAT has been hosting students from University of Alabama as part of the program “Macromolecular and Polymer Research Experience in San Sebastian” (IMPRESS). This program, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and housed by the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering of the University of Alabama (UA) has been coordinated by Prof. Jason E. Bara (UA) and managed by Prof. David Mecerreyes (POLYMAT). This International Research Experience for Students (IRES) has recruited 21 undergraduate students from the @univofalabama along the 3 program years to participate in 8-week research experiences focused on macromolecular and polymer materials under the supervision of researchers from POLYMAT and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Read more

Marcelo Calderón, a researcher at POLYMAT, has been awarded a prestigious Leonardo Grant by the BBVA Foundation. This grant, in the area of Basic Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics), is part of the 2024 call and supports Calderón's project titled Therapeutic Dry Supramolecular Bioadhesives for Tissue Repair. Read more

The research funding amounts to € 2,300,000.
The award ceremony will be held on 5 September in Madrid. Read more

POLYMAT Institute celebrates 25 years as a reference in the field of polymeric materials. The event to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the University Institute of Polymeric Materials (POLYMAT) of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) took place on the 19th of June in the Ignacio Mª Barriola Center of the UPV/EHU. Eva Ferreira, rector of the University of the Basque Country, José M. Asua, first director of the aforementioned institute, José Muñoz, manager of ORIBAY group Automotive, and María Paulis, current director of the entity, spoke at the event.  Read more

On June 17th Joaquin Almarza successfully defended his thesis entitled "Advances in mesoporous covalent organic frameworks with twisted molecules" supervised by Aurelio Mateo-Alonso. Read more

Haritz Sardón, a prominent polymer researcher at Polymat and a professor at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), was recently featured on the radio show "Norteko Ferrokarrila" on Euskadi Irratia. During the interview, Sardón discussed his career trajectory, his teaching experiences, and his research at Polymat. Read more

The Representatives of POLYMAT have received the visit of the General Deputy of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, Eider Mendoza, the Deputy of Economic Promotion, Ane Intxausti and the Director of Innovation, Jon Gurrutxaga. Read more

Last 12th June Jakes Ubabe defended his thesis entitled "Stimuli-responsive nanomaterials for drug delivery through biological barriers" supervised by Marcelo Calderón Read more

The seminar “Is a circular economy for plastics possible?” organized by POLYMAT and PolykeyPolymers with European Commission support, showcased innovative approaches in sustainable polymer research. Participants discussed the challenges and opportunities in achieving a circular economy for plastics. Read more

POLYMAT researchers recently participated in a highly engaging two-day workshop titled "How to Grab Audience’s Attention When Speaking in Public," led by communication expert Nerea Urcola. Read more

On May 15th Richard Schönlein successfully defended his thesis entitled "Piezoelectric polylactide-based materials for biomedical applications: fundamentals, fabrication strategies and characterization" supervised by Jone Muñoz and Robert Aguirresarobe. Read more

Last 10th May Nicolás Ramos Gómez defended his thesis entitled "Structure-Property Interrelations in Non-Crystalline Semiconducting Polymers for Organic Electronics" supervised by Jaime Martín Pérez. Read more

Don’t miss the interview in Resources Magazine to Fernando Vidal on "Toward a More Sustainable Plastics Economy”. Read more

The research article "Oil-Based versus Bio-Based C8 Alkyl Chain (Meth)Acrylates in Emulsion Polymerization: Kinetics and Microstructure” published in Macromolecular Reaction Engineering by POLYMAT researchers Amaia Agirre, Aitor Barquero and Jose Ramón Leiza has received enough downloads to rank within the top 10% of papers published. 
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We are delighted to announce our participation in the EKIOCEAN project! Read more

We are pleased to announce an exciting collaboration between POLYMAT and Tecnalia, two leaders in research and development in the Basque region. This strategic alliance has as its main objective to boost the green hydrogen value chain, focusing on the field of polymers and membranes for electrolysers. Read more

This Friday, March 1st, Sebastián coba is defending his thesis: "Model and recycled polyolefin based polymer blends: Compatibilization, crystallization, and properties." Read more

In the study, recently published in Research.com, Prof. Müller positions first in the ranking of the Best Scientists who published in Macromolecules, thanks to the 35 publications he has authored within the last three years.

https://research.com/journal/macromolecules#google_vignette

The metrics are compiled based on the data for scientists listed under Chemistry Read more

Researchers from the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Plastics, University of Oxford, have described ambitious targets to help deliver a sustainable plastic economy. The team includes Dr. Fernando Vidal, who signs as first-author, and is currently a senior postdoctoral researcher at POLYMAT. In a paper published in Nature, the authors analyse the necessary changes to our current technical, economic, and policy paradigms in order to mitigate carbon emissions and uncontrolled pollution from the plastic industry. The study includes a future scenario centred on four targets: cut demand by 50%; phase-out fossil-derived plastics in exchange for biomass alternatives; maximize recycling rates up to 95% of collected plastics; and do so while minimizing any negative environmental impacts. The authors go beyond in describing the future roadmap of interventions to help deliver these targets. Importantly, action must occur across all four target areas to ensure the global plastics systems curbs its climate impacts and meets UN Sustainable Development Goals. Read more

POLYMAT is offering Summer Internships to 3^rd and 4^th Year Undergraduate Students on Chemistry (or other Science or Engineering degree). These grants will last for 2 months and a half and the institution offers 560€/month per grant*. Read more

Today María Regato defended her thesis: "Multi-responsive hydrogels for biomedical applications".

David Mecerreyes from Polymat and Sergio Moya from CIC biomaGUNE have directed this PhD thesis. Read more

The Counselor of Education of the Basque Government Jokin Bildarratz has maintained a meeting with researchers who have an active ERC recognition and funding. This research grant is one of the most prestigious in Europe.  Read more

February 16th, Bruno Espuche defended his thesis titled "Tailored nanogels via precipitation polymerization to open the therapeutic window of gene delivery." The doctoral thesis was supervised by Marcelo Calderón from Polymat and Sergio Moya from CIC biomaGUNE.
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EMAKIKER grants are aimed at excellent female researchers at postdoc level wishing to explore creative, high risk&high reward directions. The candidate(s) should show potential for an academic career and aspire to a professorship at POLYMAT. EMAKIKER grant should enable female researchers to acquire independence and scientific autonomy and to sharpen their profile for the next career step. They will lead a research project, working independently and managing their own team. Read more

Carlos Bello Álvarez defended his thesis titled "Lactide-based thermoplastic elastomers: topography-mediated approaches to alleviate neuroinflammation." Read more

We are pleased to announce that Professor Alejandro Müller has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the esteemed journal, Macromolecules. With his wealth of expertise Prof. Müller is poised to contribute significantly to the journal's commitment to advancing research and innovation in the field.

More info: https://lnkd.in/d2fz-eZX Read more

Danila Merino is one of the awardees of the Fellows Gipuzkoa Programme.

Four new high-level researchers have joined the Gipuzkoa R&D ecosystem through the Fellows Gipuzkoa grants programme for the year 2023.

Yesterday, the working meeting took place where the provincial officials had the opportunity to go into the details of the projects that are being carried out.

Among the researchers, Danila Merino stands out, who contributes to the vibrant research landscape promoted by the programme with her research project on the valorisation of non-edible, highly available and low-cost vegetable waste to prepare bioplastics that represent an alternative to the petroleum-based polymers traditionally used for agricultural use and in packaging applications. Read more

On December 14th, Huiyi Wang defended her thesis: "Construction of thermoresponsive nanogels with various structures for dermal drug delivery." Read more

On December 14th, Sumi Murali defended her thesis: "Incorporation of zwitterionic monomers into waterborne polymer dispersions." Read more

On December 14th, Ion Olazabal defended his thesis: "Efficient and selective organocatalytic depolymerization under milder conditions." Read more

On December 11th, Elvis Lopes defended his thesis: "Film formation of multiphase latex particles." Read more

A new POCTEFA project has just been approved to employ sugar-based materials in Bioplastics. Read more

Danila Merino, Emakiker researcher at Polymat has been appointed member of the Materials Horizons Community Board. Read more

On Friday, November 24th, Andrea Melissa Cabrera successfully defended her thesis titled "Functionalized Fullerenes as Dopant-Free Electron and Hole Transport Materials in Perovskite Solar Cells." The doctoral thesis was supervised by Juan Luis Delgado Cruz.  Read more

Our community gathered yesterday at the Polymat day 2023. 

We all enjoyed the lectures for our young researchers:
🔸 Dr. Clara García-Astrain from CIC biomaGUNE
🔸 Dr. Fernando Vidal, Dr. Ricado Pérez-Camargo, Dr. Danila Merino and Dr. Aitor Barquero from Polymat.

And and it was a pleasure to have the invited speakers:
🔸 Emilio J. Palomares Gil from Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia. 
🔸 Dr. Samane Mehravar from Basf Global. 

See you all next year! Read more

On october 26th, in a ceremony held in Seville, our researcher Prof. David Mecerreyes was  appointed president of GEP (Grupo Especializado en Polimeros). Read more

We're thrilled to announce that Mehdi Naderi has successfully defended his thesis, titled "Synthesis and Characterization of Redispersible Latexes." The defense took place on Friday, November 17th, at the Auditorium of Joxe Mari Korta Building, starting at 10:30 AM. Read more

On November 13th, Xabier Lopez de Pariza successfully defended his thesis titled "Non-radical Photopolymerizable Systems; Towards Sustainable Applications in Light-Mediated Additive Manufacturing." The doctoral thesis received guidance from supervisors Haritz Sardon and David Mecerreyes. Read more

In a study led by CSIC researcher Juan F. Vega in collaboration with POLYMAT researchers
(Itxaso Calafel, Mercedes Fernandez) and researchers from UPV/EHU and Donostia Hospital,
the complex properties of human tears have been studied to enhance the treatment of dry
eye syndrome. Compared to artificial tears, human tears consist of a complex mixture of lipids,
carbohydrates, proteins, water, and salt, making them unique in keeping our eyes hydrated
and protected. Read more

POLYMAT General Manager, Idoia Azaldegui, who is Vice-President of the Circular Economy Working Group of WAS (Women Action Sustainability), participated this week at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela in the event WASCirculamos together with Pamela Torres Salas from Repsol. Read more

We are pleased to announce that Jon Ayestaran has won the runner-up prize in the SEJIPOL photo competition.

Title of the photo: ¡Esto es la leche!

The photograph has been submitted to the category of "Sustainability, polymer valorization and polymer recycling."

In the image you can see what at first glance looks like a simple brick of milk, however, this material was obtained using the 3D printing technique of in-tank photopolymerisation. Specifically, the printed material is 80% skimmed milk, and the remaining 20% are some photopolymerisable monomers. Therefore, paradoxically, the milk brick shown in the image is mostly composed of milk.

Thus, by means of 3D printing, the aim is to give a second life to milk in poor condition or discarded, obtaining parts with very high resolution and very good mechanical properties. Read more

These days, we have attended the international conference on “Equality, Science and Technology. For a paradigm shift” organized by Emakunde

It has been inspiring to hear about ways to include the gender perspective in research, the importance of using gender-inclusive language, harassment and many other valuable tools to continue working on and improving our Gender Equality Plan.

Our Project Manager Mónica Moreno was part of the Scientific Committee of the conference together with other coordination members of Emakumeak Zientzian.  Read more

Itziar Insua was awarded as the best oral presentation at the XI Congress of young researchers in Polymers (JIP 2023) which took place in Alicante from October 2 to 5, for her talk about new interpenetrated network hydrogels based on hyaluronic acid. Read more

María Rosaría Caputo defended her thesis titled "Biodegradable polyesters with potential applications in 3D Printing: structure, morphology and crystallization" on Wednesday, October 9th. The doctoral thesis was supervised by Prof. Alejandro Jesús Muller Sánchez and Dr. Haritz Sardón Muguruza. Read more

Hesham Abdeldaim defended his thesis titled "Effect of particle morphology on film cracking" on Monday, November 9th. The doctoral thesis was supervised by Prof. José M. Asua. Read more

Forty participants coming from 12 different countries from research institutions and companies around the world, have participated in the Course given by POLYMAT researchers in the field of Emulsion Polymerization. Read more

TheraTools Project partners and Doctoral Candidates joined for the first time in person in the kick-off meeting in San Sebastian. Read more

The Minister of Equality, Justice and Social Policies, Nerea Melgosa, and the director of Emakunde, Miren Elgarresta, presented today, accompanied by the director of Nanogune Txema Pitarke and the director of digital identity of the University of Deusto Lorena Fernández, the Congress International “Equality, Science and technology, for a paradigm shift” that will be held on October 23 and 24 at the Miramar Palace in Donostia. Read more

POLYMAT researcher Emelin Luna receives the Best Poster prize in the category of Sustainability during the IUPAC/CHAINS 2023 conference.

Emelin is currently a PhD student under the guidance of Dr. Haritz Sardon (EHU/UPV) and Dr. Steven De Meester (UGent). Her research topic is focused on the Chemical Recycling of Polyethylene and Polycarbonate.

Congratulations! Read more

Prof. Alejandro Müller has been awarded the Zhongguancun Award for International Cooperation with China.  Read more

We are happy to share the announcement that the RSEQ and RSEF Polymers Specialty Group, in the 2023 call for the Award of Excellence, gives the "Outstanding Young Researcher in Polymers GEP Award" to POLYMAT researcher Nicholas Ballard. Read more

Itziar Insua was awarded as the best contribution in the "Gels and glasses" section at the European Young Rheologists Symposium held online, for her presentation entitled "3D printing of hydrogels: from process to simulation". Read more

POLYMAT, a renowned research center, has been chosen as one of the institutions to host a female researcher as part of the ninth edition of the Science by Women program, organized by Women for Africa Foundation. This selection highlights POLYMAT's strong commitment to promoting gender equality and empowering women in the field of science. Read more

Elisabet Bolòs defended her thesis titled "Crystalline Dynamic Covalent Polymers: from Nanographene units to 1D and 2D topologies" on Friday, July 14. The doctoral thesis was supervised by Prof. Aurelio Mateo Alonso.  Read more

Félix Hernández successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled "Advances in the synthesis of molecular nanoribbons, discs, and belts" on Thursday, July 13. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Aurelio Mateo Alonso. Read more

On June 16, Maialen Galdeano defended her thesis titled "Theorical charaterization of new dynamic bonds for responsive materials and their optical properties". Fernando Ruipérez from Polymat and Jon Mattin from DIPC supervised this doctoral thesis. Read more

POLYMAT recently joined the United Nations Global Compact. There is a strong commitment of our institution to meet the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 10 principles of the United Nations.  Read more

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The Organic Batteries Days were held on 7-8 June at the Miramar Palace in Donostia-San Sebastian. This is an annual event of reference for organic battery experts organised by UPV/EHU and Polymat. 

The topics covered included the design and synthesis of organic electroactive materials, the study of these materials in various electrochemical systems (e.g. rechargeable batteries, flow batteries) and electrolytes for organic electrodes. Read more

The work presented by Dr. Nora Aranburu has been selected as one of the Top 10 posters presented at the "Frontiers in polymer science"2023 Symposium organised by Elsevier in partnership with Materials Today in Gothenburg, Sweden.   Read more

Our PhD researchers met to attend the POLYMAT Students Day, an annual event consisting on a series of talks delivered by our researchers covering a wide range of topics from polymer synthesis, and characterisation to applications. Read more

On May 17th, Adrián Pérez López successfully defended his thesis entitled "Structured latexes for high performance coatings". Nicholas Ballard supervised this doctoral thesis. Read more

This year, around 40 POLYMAT predoc and postdoctoral researchers attended the Short Course on the "Introduction to the structure and properties of polymers" given by POLYMAT researchers Alejandro J Müller and Mercedes Fernández San Martín, experts in the fields of polymer physics, polymer structure and rheology. Read more

Sara Marina and Jaime Martin's article published in Materials Horizon in 2021 has been awarded Outstanding Article 2022 by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Read more

POLYMAT General Manager Idoia Azaldegui Alba and Project Manager Mónica Moreno have participated as speakers in the EARMA conference in Prague presenting the Emakiker Grant and Emakumeak Zientzian (Women in Science) as best practices in Leadership of women scientific researchers. Read more

On March 17th, Oroitz Sánchez successfully defended her thesis entitled "Study and development of new biodegradable polymeric materials carrying bioactive drugs". Ainhoa Lejardi y Emilio Meaurio supervised this doctoral thesis. Read more

POLYMAT Scientific Director Prof. José María Asua has been awarded with the ‘Luis Federico Leloir’ Award granted by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Argentina in the area of Agricultural Sciences, Engineering and Materials. This is the highest recognition in Argentina to foreign researchers who have contributed to strengthen the scientific and technological capacities of the country. Read more

POLYMAT Institute pre-doctoral researcher Enrique Hernández Murillo is the 2023 Photography Contest Winner. Read more

POLYMAT scientists Radmila Tomovska and Maria Paulis are members of the international committee of the 2nd International Conference on Aerogel Inspired Materials.  Read more

On February 27th, Justine Elgoyhen successfully defended her thesis entitled "Waterbone polysulfide dispersions for coatings application". Professor Radmila Tomovska supervised this doctoral thesis. Read more

On February 24th, Soline Vauthier successfully defended her thesis entitled "Innovative polymers for lithium-ion batteries". Prof. David Mecerreyes and Dr. Nerea Casado supervised this doctoral thesis. Read more

EMAKIKER grants are aimed at excellent female researchers at postdoc level wishing to explore creative, high risk&high reward directions. The candidate(s) should show potential for an academic career and aspire to a professorship at POLYMAT. EMAKIKER grant should enable female researchers to acquire independence and scientific autonomy and to sharpen their profile for the next career step. They will lead a research project, working independently and managing their own team. Read more

Diulia Caroline Quites successfully defends her PhD titled "Development of new anticorrosion coatings based on the combination of suitable waterborne polymeric binders and corrosion inhibitors”. The work has been supervised by Prof. Maria Paulis and Prof. Maria Forsyth, as a result of the first PhD project in cotutelle between POLYMAT and Deakin University. Read more

POLYMAT is offering Summer Internships to 3^rd and 4^th Year Undergraduate Students on Chemistry (or other Science or Engineering degree). These grants will last for 2 months and a half and the institution offers 560€/month per grant*. Read more

* Twenty-four Basque organisations are jointly organising a wide-ranging programme for the 7th edition of Emakumeak Zientzian. Read more

POLYMAT participa en el consorcio de dos proyectos concedidos en la reciente publicada resolución de la convocatoria de proyectos en colaboración Público-privada del Programa Estatal para Impulsar la Investigación Científico-Técnica y su Transferencia, del Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica, Técnica y de Innovación 2021-2023, en el marco del Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia. Read more

Andoni Rodriguez has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Synthesis of waterborne degradable polyester nanoparticles by free radical emulsion polymerization".

Ana Beloqui from POLYMAT and Mato Knez from CIC nanoGUNE have supervised this doctoral thesis Read more

Fabian Wenzel has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Synthesis of waterborne degradable polyester nanoparticles by free radical emulsion polymerization".

Jose Ramón Leiza and Miren Aguirre have supervised this doctoral thesis.  Read more

Yurena Polo has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Controlling the fate of stem cells through two-and three-dimensional scaffolds based on bioresorbable polymers and graphene derivatives: a study towards nerve tissue regeneration". Read more

Fermin Elizalde has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Polyurethane Materials: Insights on Dynamic Properties and Self-Healing Applications". Read more

Stanford University recently released the list of the World’s Top 2% Scientists with more citations in scientific publications.

We are proud to announce that our scientific director Prof. José M. Asua and Prof. David Mecerreyes are among the top 10 ranked UPV/EHU. Also in the ranking of the 150 UPV/EHU researchers are our researchers Prof. Alejandro J. Müller, Prof. Aurelio Mateo-Alonso, Dr. Nicholas Ballard and Dr. Haritz Sardon. Read more

Last week Jessica Desport from Inbloom Solutions held a workshop where almost 60 predoctoral and junior postdoctoral researchers were able to learn about how researchers can communicate and generate impact on society, on our peers at scientific conferences or teaching the next generation.

This workshop is part of POLYMAT HHRR Strategy Plan (HR Excellence Award).  Read more

The Emakumeak Zientzian initiative has received special recognition from Fomento San Sebastian at the awards ceremony of the 9th edition of Innovation Week. Read more

Last week we celebrated POLYMAT Day with a series of talks by POLYMAT scientists and invited external scientists to present advances in the field of polymer science. Read more

Iranzu Barbarin has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "3D porous graphene-polymer materials for CO2 capture". Read more

Rafael del Olmo has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Innovative mixed ionic-electronic conductors for energy storage systems". Read more

Nicolás María has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Crystallization and self-assembly of ferroelectric/piezoelectric materials designed for organic electronic devices".

This PhD thesis has been supervised by Prof. Alejandro Müller (UPV/EHU-POLYMAT) and by Dr. Jon Maiz (CFM).  Read more

Miryam Criado will continue her research at Polymat thanks to the Emakiker 2022 grant to develop the project "Engineering Polymer Hydrogels for Water Harvesting".

The EMAKIKER grant is awarded by POLYMAT every year to boost the scientific career and leadership of female scientists. Read more

Today David Esporrin has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Fine-tuning the properties of hybrid hydrogels to modulate their interactions with biological fluids: A systematic study at different length scales".

This PhD thesis has been supervised by Marcelo Calderón and Jose María Asua as a mentor at the university. Read more

The CINEMA project is coordinated by Ikerbasque researcher at the UPV/EHU and POLYMAT Nicholas Ballard, together with UPV/EHU professor and scientific director of BERC POLYMAT José María Asua. It has received €2 million in funding from the European Commission through the Marie Sklodowska Curie programme. Read more

One more year, POLYMAT researchers and representatives of 15 international companies in the field of polymers reunited in the annual meeting of the Industrial Liaison Programme. Read more

Dr. Nerea Casado has been appointed as Ikerbasque Research Fellow by the Ikerbasque Foundation. Read more

The Science by Women program of the Women for Africa Foundation reaches its eighth edition and Polymat will be one of the centers that will host a female researcher. Read more

Today Elena Gabirondo has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "New trends in the synthesis of polyesters: from catalyst design to chemical recycling".

This PhD thesis has been supervised by Prof. Haritz Sardon and Prof. Agustin Etxeberria. Read more

Thanks to the Educational Cooperation Agreement between AUPATUZ and POLYMAT, this summer we have the pleasure of hosting one of their students in our laboratories as part of the Extracurricular Enrichment Programme. Read more

Nerea Jimenez successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Incorporation of hydrogen bonding for high performance waterborne coatings".

This PhD thesis has been supervised by Dr. Nicholas Ballard and Prof. José M. Asua.

Congratulations! Read more

Gipuzkoa's R&D&I ecosystem has incorporated 5 new high-level researchers through the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council's Fellows Gipuzkoa grant programme, the call for applications for which has recently been resolved. The Deputy General Markel Olano and the Deputy for Economic Promotion and Strategic Projects Jabier Larrañaga have received four of the new Fellows incorporations and the representatives of their respective centres, in a working meeting in which they have been able to learn first-hand about the content of the projects they are going to develop, and in which Olano has stressed the importance of continuing to promote talent and R&D&I in the territory. "Committing to science and research means committing to a strong and advanced economy, based on knowledge, and sowing the seeds for advances that improve people's health and wellbeing. In times of uncertainty like the ones we are living in, continuing to increase the excellence of our research ecosystem is essential to continue collectively building a better future," he said. Read more

The TheraTools project aims to develop new tools to advance research into one of the cancers with the worst possible prognosis, glioblastoma. It is a high-level research project supported by the second call of the European Marie Sklodowska Curie programme of Horizon Europe, a network that supports the training and professional development of pre-doctoral researchers from around the world through their participation in collaborative projects that address current and future societal challenges. The project has received €2.3 million in funding from the European Commission through this programme. Read more

We have the pleasure to host Dr. Amal Amin as a visiting researcher at POLYMAT thanks to the agreement with Fundación Mujeres por África through the Sience by Women programme. Read more

Emakumeak Zientzian [Women in Science] has receivedthe first STEAM Euskadi Prize andthe Special Mention Award for Gender Perspective in the category of Most Innovative Initiative in STEAM Education promoted by other organizations. Read more

Marta alvarez has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Innovative polymers for lithium-O2 rechargeable batteries".

This PhD thesis has been supervised by Prof. David Mecerreyes and Dr. Laurent Castro.

Congratulations! Read more

The EMS 2022 summer school on Membrane Engineering and the 4 natural elements: earth, air, water and fire, was held in Aleida da Serra, Portugal, from 29 May to 3 June. Read more

Edurne Marín has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Exploiting the versatility of the layer-by-layer approach to fabricate antioxidant polymer microreactors: towards multifunctional systems for therapeutic applications". Read more

Maialen Argaiz has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Electrostatic interaction for high performance waterborne coatings".

This PhD thesis has been supervised by Prof. Radmila Tomovska and Dr. Miren Aguirre. Read more

The GEP-SLAP scientific conference (www.gep-slap2022.eu), organized by POLYMAT researchers Alejandro J. Müller and David Mecerreyes and the CSIC Professor Carmen Mijangos, has been held this year in Donostia/San Sebastian from May 8 to 12 at the Kursaal Center. This congress focused on the science and application of polymers includes the "XVI Meeting of the Specialized Group of Polymers GEP of the Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) and the Royal Spanish Society of Physics (RSEF)" (GEP 2022), the “XVII Latin American Symposium on Polymers” (SLAP 2022) and the “XV Ibero-American Congress on Polymers” (CIP 2022). Read more

POLYMAT would like to congratulate Dr. Leire Sagroniz, for winning the "Iberian award for the most distinguished PhD Thesis in Rheology". Given in the Annual European Rheology Conference (AERC 2022), Seville. Read more

Iliane Rafaniello has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Early-stage detection of membrane fouling".

This PhD thesis has been supervised by Dr. Thomas Schäfer. Read more

Ikerbasque Research Professor Aurelio Mateo-Alonso at POLYMAT and at the University of the Basque Country, in collaboration with researchers from KU Leuven and the University of Aveiro, have published today an article in Nature that provides literally snapshots of the formation and growth of 2D polymers with submolecular resolution. Read more

A team of researchers led by scientists from the UPV/EHU and POLYMAT critically analyzes the advantages and challenges of current polymer recycling methods that seek to achieve a sustainable economy for plastics. Read more

POLYMAT would like to congratulate Dr. Sandra Camarero, who has received the prestigious Junior Leader grant from the La Caixa Foundation. Read more

Our researcher, Dr. Haritz Sardón, will chair the session on Chemical catalysis for the deconstruction and upcycling at the World Plastics Summit 2022, to be held from 24-26 March in Monaco, as part of the prestigious Monaco Ocean Week 2022. Read more

El viernes pasado, 18 de marzo de 2022, recibimos en POLYMAT la visita del Diputado General Markel Olano y representantes de la Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa. Read more

EMAKIKER grants are aimed at excellent female researchers at postdoc level wishing to explore creative, high risk&high reward directions. The candidate(s) should show potential for an academic career and aspire to a professorship at POLYMAT. EMAKIKER grant should enable female researchers to acquire independence and scientific autonomy and to sharpen their profile for the next career step. They will lead a research project, working independently and managing their own team. Read more

Today, we celebrate a Winter School in the frame of the Marie Sklodowska Curie - European Industrial Doctorate project REPOL - Characterization, compatibilization, processing and properties of recycled polyolefins, coordinated by Prof. Alejandro Müller.  Read more

Jorge Olmedo Martínez has successfuly defended his PhD thesis titled “Crystallization studies and application of innovative solid polymer electrolytes for lithium batteries”. This thesis has been the result of a joint supervision from Prof. Alejandro J. Müller (Polymer Physics and Advanced Manufacturing Group) and Prof. David Mecerreyes (Innovative Polymers Group) Read more

Arranca con fuerza la iniciativa Emakumeak Zientzian 2022 organizada por diecisiete entidades vascas con motivo del 11 de febrero, Día Internacional de la Mujer y la Niña en la Ciencia. En el arranque que ha tenido lugar esta mañana en San Sebastián han participado Jabier Larrañaga, Diputado Foral de Promoción Económica, Turismo y Medio Rural de Gipuzkoa, Marisol Garmendia, concejala de Desarrollo Económico y Empleo de San Sebastián, Aitziber L. Cortajarena, Directora Científica de CIC biomaGUNE, Ainhoa Lete, Cofundadora y Directora General de BuntPlanet, y Sandra Camarero, investigadora Ikerbasque de POLYMAT, así como las coordinadoras de la iniciativa Emakumeak Zientzian 2022 Mónica Moreno (POLYMAT) e Itziar Otegui (CIC nanoGUNE). Read more

The Department of Environment of the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa has organised the 4th International Meeting on Circular Economy. Read more

Seventeen Basque organizations are jointly running a wide-ranging program in the 6th edition of Emakumeak Zientzian, which was presented this morning. Read more

A study led by the Science and Engineering of Polymeric Biomaterials-ZIBIO Group (POLYMAT) has resulted in a significant advance in cell therapy. Read more

POLYMAT is offering Summer Internships to 3^rd and 4^th Year Undergraduate Students on Chemistry (or other Science or Engineering degree). These grants will last for 2 months and a half and the institution offers 560€/month per grant*. Read more

Six researchers from POLYMAT are among the world’s top 2% most influencial scientists, according to the Stanford University Ranking: Read more

POLYMAT and Ikerbasque Professor Maria Forsyth has been awarded with the 2021 RH Stokes Medal Award by the Electrochemical Divistion of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI). Read more

8:35-9:35 Plenary lecture. Prof. Alejandro J. Müller ‘Crystallization of Multiphasic Polymeric Materials’. Leader of the Advanced Multiphasic Polymers Group, POLYMAT-UPV/EHU. Read more

Marine Lechartier, Early Stage Researcher of the European Industrial Doctorate Project POLYTE has successfully defended her PhD thesis. The project has been supervised by a joint supervision between Toyota researcher Dr. Laurent Castro and POLYMAT researcher Prof. David Mecerreyes. Read more

Sara Marina Barbier and Javier Mateos Martín successfully defended their PhD on November 19. Read more

The final degree project developed by Itziar Insua, student of Mater in Chemistry and Polymers, is aimed at researching on nanogels created by 3D printing for the controlled release of drugs in the human body. Read more

The PhD entitled Sustainable Non-Isocyanate Polyurethane-Based Adhesives for Automotive Industry has been carried out under the supervision of POLYMAT researcher Dr. Haritz Sardon and Dr. Iñigo Calvo, the R&D Director at Oribay Group. Read more

Beñat Olave Fernández, PhD researcher in the Nanobioseparations Group, has successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Functional DNA in non-conventional solvents" under the supervision of Prof. Thomas Schäfer. Read more

On Tuesday, October 26, 2021, our researcher Aurelio Mateo-Alonso received the Award for Research Excellence 2021 of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) sponsored by CEPSA by the hands of Juana María Frontela and A. M. Echavarren. Read more

José M. Asua, professor of chemical engineering at the University of the Basque Country and scientific director of the Basque Center for Macromolecular Desing and Engineering POLYMAT Fundazioa, has been appointed member of the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) Scientific Board for Foreign Scientific Personalities, by order of the Minister of Esri dated 08/26/2021, published in the Official Journal on 09/04.  Read more

Aurélie Destephen has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "Possibilities and limitations of cationic polymerization in the presence of water". Read more

The meeting of the Industrial Liaison Program on Polymerization in Dispersed Media has taken place online on September 9-10. This is an initiative where a consortium of companies supports fundamental research of industrially relevant problems. Current members are 13 internationally renowned companies: Akzo Nobel (UK), Allnex (Austria), Arkema (France), Asian Paints (India), BASF (Germany), DSM (The Netherlands), Elix (Spain), Inovyn (Belgium), 3M (USA), Stahl (The Netherlands), Synthomer (Germany), Vinavil (Italy), and Wacker (Germany). Read more

The Course on Emulsion Polymerization Processes 2021 has just started. It will be given on-line over several weeks, starting on September 13, 2021. Read more

The Start-up Polykey receives the Toribio Echevarria Award in the category 'New company' Read more

Mikel Irigoyen defended his PhD thesis titled "Theoretical Study of Dichalgonides as building blocks for efficient self-healing materiales". The thesis has been supervised by Dr. Jon M. Matxain (DIPC,UPV/EHU) and Dr. Fernando Ruiperez (POLYMAT). Read more

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POLYMAT participes in the 7th Edition of SCIENCE BY WOMEN programme launched by Fundación Mujeres por África with the aim to promote African women's leadership in scientific research and technology transfer and to foster the capacity of the research centres in their home countries. Read more

Dr. Haritz Sardon has been awarded with the ‘2021 ACS Macro Letters/Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator’ Award. Read more

Ana Beloqui has been awarded a Leonardo Grant by the BBVA Foundation to research on 'Solid phase application to targeted patching of proteins (HidroParch)'. She has been selected together with other 6 researchers in the field of Basic Research, in the Chemistry subarea. Read more

Naroa Sadaba has defended her PhD thesis titled "3D printable polylactide-based functional systems with enhanced radiopacity and biological activity. The PhD has been supervised by Dr. Ester Zuza and Dr. Jone Muñoz Read more

POLYMAT, Ikerbasque and Ramon y Cajal Researcher at UPV/EHU Dr. Ana Beloqui has been awarded by the Specialized Group on Biological Chemistry (GEQB) of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) with the 'Young Leader of Research Group' award. Read more

Our researcher Haritz Sardon has been interviewed in Euskadi Irratia to talk about the Young Researcher Award in the category of Group Leader awarded by the Spanish Royar Society of Chemistry (RSEQ). Read more

POLYMAT renews the agreement with Fomento San Sebastián reinforcing the strategy of attracting and developing talent to San Sebastian. Read more

POLYMAT Professor Juan Luis Delgado and Iván Mora-Seró from the INAM (Institute of Advanced Materials) have organized the conference Organic Materials in Perovskite-based Optoelectronic Devices 2021 - OrgMatPerPV 2021 held online on April 29-30. Read more

Prof. Aurelio Mateo Alonso, head of the Molecular and Supramolecular Materials Group at POLYMAT, has been awarded by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) with the  Research Excelence Award. Read more

Dr. Haritz Sardon, group leader of the Catalysis and Sustainable Polymers Group, has been awarded by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) with the Young Researcher Award in the category of Group Leader. Read more

Dr. Daniele Mantione, former PhD student at POLYMAT has been awarded by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) with the Young Investigator Award. Read more

Women Action Sustainability presents the "Circular Economy Guide: from strategy to action" Read more

POLYMAT researcher Bertha T. Pérez has succenssfully defended her PhD thesis titled "Comparison of Microwave Vs. Conventional Heating Polymerizations and Possible MW Applications in Polymers" supervised by Prof. Radmila Tomovska Read more

PhD student Nerea Jimenez was awarded with the prize for the best scientific picture in the 'POLYMAT 2020 Photography Contest'. The TEM image titled: 'Honeycomb-like microstructured materials for mechanically strong polymer films' can be seen in the link below: Read more

Dr. Haritz Sardon has recently joined the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Applied Polymer Materials journal. Read more

POLYMAT launches one more year the EMAKIKER Grant Read more

Dr. Haritz Sardon has been recently incorporated to the Editorial Advisory Board of one of the top polymer journal Macromolecules.   Read more

One more year POLYMAT participates in the organization of Emakumeak Zientzian. This edition, 11 local research centers (POLYMAT, CFM (CSIC-UPV/EHU), CIC biomaGUNE, Biodonostia, Tecnun-Escuela de Ingenieros, Ceit, POLYMAT, Elhuyar, la Facultad de Informática de la UPV/EHU and Eureka! Zientzia Museoa) have joined to launch a very attractive programme full of activities for all the publics, from kids to senior people. Read more

Esther Udabe has sucessfully defended her PhD thesis '“Innovative metal-free coumarate based Ionic Liquids and acrylic UV-coatings as corrosion inhibitors”. Read more

POLYMAT is offering Summer Internships to 3^rd and 4^th Year Undergraduate Students on Chemistry (or other Science or Engineering degree). These grants will last for 2 months and a half and the institution offers 560€/month per grant*. Read more

POLYMAT and Ikerbasque researcher Juan Luis Delgado has co-edited together with Prof. Emilio Pamolares (ICREA and ICIQ) this special issue in Sustainable Energy & Fuels: 'Introduction to the organic materials for energy conversion and storage themed collection'. Read more

Antonio Domínguez Alfaro has successfully defended online his PhD thesis entitled "3D structures based on carbón materials and conducting polymers for electroresponsive cell cultures”. Read more

The initiative DETENTE promoted by a multidisciplinar team composed by researchers from DIPC, UPV/EHU and POLYMAT, has been recognised with the XX Manuel Laborde award.  #ManuelLaborde 2020 award.  Read more

Former PhD student Isabel del Agua awarded with the UPV/EHU Extraordinary PhD Award 2020 for her thesis “Conducting polymer materials for bioelectronics applications” supervised by Prof. David Mecerreyes and Dr. Ana Sánchez Sánchez. This work was carried out in the frame of the Marie Skolodowska Curie project OLIMPIA-ITN. Read more

The Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa has published the results of the funding program 'Research in Severe Diseases' and has selected the project “Smart nano-vehicles for the treatment of glioblastoma. Development of new materials and cell models ”, presented by BERC POLYMAT. The funding agent has allocated 89,013 euros for the project development. This regional program aims to support centers that carry out research in the field of severe diseases, in projects and investments in equipment and infrastructures that serve to advance in the fight against this type of ailments. Read more

Nerea Casado and David Mecerreyes, from the Innovative Polymers Group have edited a recently published book on 'Redox Polymers for Energy and Nanomedicine'. Read more

POLYMAT researchers Sara Marina, Edgar Gutiérrez and Jaime Martín have published a research paper on the prestigious journal Advanced Materials. Read more

POLYMAT researcher Haritz Sardon awarded with the Excellence of Young Researcher in Polymers Award on its first edition, by the Specialized Group of Polymers of the RSEQ and RSEF Read more

Haritz Sardon has been awarded a Leonardo Grant by the BBVA Foundation to research on 'Smart plastic recycling: Using waste to produce new materials'. He has been selected together with other 5 researchers in the field of Basic Research, in the Chemistry subarea. Read more

POLYMAT (University of the Basque Country, Spain) and the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Germany) have organized an online workshop on Polymers and Batteries in the frame of the European Project POLYSTORAGE-ETN (MSCA). Read more

Ernesto Osorio has successfully defended his PhD in Berlin last Friday. This is the first PhD thesis in collaboration between POLYMAT and the Free University of Berlin.  Read more

We are pleased to announce an honorary Special Issue in the journal Polymers on the great contributions of Prof. Dr. Alejandro J. Müller on polymer crystallization. Special Issue in the Journal Polymers: 'Honor the Achievements of Prof. Alejandro J. Müller in Polymer Crystallization'  Read more

El proyecto COMBIMER (PID2019-107889GA-I00) liderado por los investigadores Nicholas Ballard y Fernando Ruipérez ha sido uno de los proyectos seleccionados para financiación en la CONVOCATORIA 2019 a «proyectos de i+d+i» en el marco de los programas estatales de generación de conocimiento y fortalecimiento científico  tecnológico del sistema de i+d+i y de i+d+i orientada a los retos de la Sociedad en el marco del Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020. Read more

Former MSCA TRACKWAY-EID project fellow Massimo Bandiera awarded with the 2020 prize from the Italian Chemical Society for the best doctoral thesis in the field of Industrial Chemistry. A PhD in collaboration with BASF Read more

The article 'A Sterically Congested Nitrogenated Benzodipentaphene with a Double π-Expanded Helicene Structure' of Dr. Fengkun Chen and Prof. Aurelio Mateo Alonso' has been highlighted in SYNFACTS (current research results in synthetic organic chemistry) for its important insights. Read more

The RSEQ and GEP (Grupo Especializado de Polímeros) have recognized the PhD theses of Dr. Andere Basterretxea and Dr. Coralie Jehanno as one of the best PhD theses in polymers in 2019 in Spain. Dr. Basterretxea has receive the first prize and Dr. Jehanno the Accessit prize. Read more

The first PhD viva online at POLYMAT was successfully completed by Adrian Badía Rodrigo. He did an excellent job after 4 years of research on the "Development of waterborne polymeric dispersions based on biobased monomers for their application as PSAs and coatings".

The PhD was supervised by Prof. José Ramon Leiza Read more

POLYMAT and Ikerbasque Research Professor Alejandro J. Müller just published an invited Perspective article in the journal MACROMOLECULES featured on the cover of this prestigious publication of the American Chemical Society in the area of Polymer Science. The paper is entitled: “Self-Nucleation Effects on Polymer Crystallization”. Sangroniz, L.; Cavallo, D.; Müller, A. J. Macromolecules, 2020, 53, 4581−4604 (June):  Read more

POLYMAT researchers Beñat Olave & Thomas Schäfer are part of the research team led by the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), the Basque Foundation for Science - Ikerbasque and the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) that has just published today in Nature a revealing work on the nature of neutrinos, answering fundamental questions on the origin of the universe. Read more

The double Master in Polymer science is merging the competencies in polymer teaching and research of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and POLYMAT and the University of Bordeaux (UBx).  Read more

POLYMAT is offering Scholarships to students of the Master in Chemistry and Polymers or any other official Master degree of UPV/EHU or any other University (subject to the formalization of an agreement), to carry out their final Master’s thesis 2020-2021 in one of our research groups. Read more

POLYMAT and Ikerbasque Research Professor David Mecerreyes awarded by the RSEQ in the category of Research Excellence.  Read more

Our General Manager Idoia Azaldegui, in the category of directive-professional and Isabel Azanza CEO of Geminys, in the category of businesswoman, yesterday received the Aspegi 2020 award. The awards were presented at an event at the Aquarium attended by members of ASPEGI as well as representatives of the Basque Government, Diputación Foral of Gipuzkoa and San Sebastián City Council. Read more

A paper by Prof. Aurelio Mateo-Alonso in collaboration with researchers from CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials, has been selected as hot paper in Chemistry A European Journal. Read more

Congratulations to Dr. Boris Bizet, who has successfully defended his PhD thesis in the frame of a cotutelle project between POLYMAT - University of the Basque Country- and the University of Bordeaux, under the joint supervision of Pr. José M. Asua and Pr. Henri Cramail. Read more

Our General Manager Idoia Azaldegui has been interviewed in Cadena Ser Euskadi on occasion of the ASPEGI Award together with the other awardee Isabel Azanza. Read more

Our General Manager Idoia Azaldegui has been interviewed in the local TV Teledonosti on occasion of the ASPEGI Award together with the other awardee Isabel Azanza. Read more

After the interim assessment, the assessors' team have concluded that the implementation of the Action Plan is ensured in a robust and systematic way. POLYMAT is progressing with the implementation of appropriate and improved quality actions as described in its Action Plan. Read more

PhD student Maryam Safari did a successfull PhD defense. Her PhD work, supervised by Prof. Alejandro Müller was entitled: "Synthesis, structure, crystallization and confinement of isodimorphie PBS-ran-PCL copolyesters". Read more

In 2020, POLYMAT participates in the organization of the activities in the frame of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2020 together with other Research Centers located in Donostia-San Sebastian: CIC-Biomagune, CFM, DIPC, CIC-Nanogune, Tecnum, Ceit, Elhuyar and Biodonostia. These activities will take place in February 7-15, 2020. Read more

The paper 'Can We Push Rapid Reversible Deactivation Radical Polymerizations toward Immortality?' by POLYMAT researchers Dr. N. Ballard and Prof José M. Asua published in ACS Macro Letters has been selected as the ACS Editors’ Choice article. The paper shows that, contrary to the predictions of classical reaction kinetics, radical termination reactions can be substantially reduced in reversible deactivation radical polymerizations (RDRPs). This questions the commonly held assumptions of the limitations of RDRP processes and suggests the ability for a seemingly impossible level of control of radical reactions. Read more

POLYMAT General Manager Idoia Azaldegui Alba is awarded with the ASPEGI 2020 prize in the category of Executive/Professional. ASPEGI, the Association of Professionals and Businesswomen of Gipuzkoa, recognizes with these awards the work of women in the business and professional field. Read more

POLYMAT is offering Summer Internships to 3^rd and 4^th Year Undergraduate Students on Chemistry (or other Science or Engineering degree). These grants will last for 2 months and a half and the institution offers 560€/month per grant*. Read more

Dr. Luisa Neves from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (LAQV/REQUIMTE) participated as invited speaker in the POLYMAT Seminar Series talking about ‘Membranes for CO2 separation’. Read more

Congratulations to Dr. Asier Fernández de Añastro for a successful PhD defence in the field of batterieswith Prof. David Mecerreyes as PhD advisor.  Read more

The work of POLYMAT researchers Mr. Adrian Badia, Dr. Amaia Agirre and Profs. Jose Ramón Leiza and M. Jesús Barandiaran has been highlighted on the weekly magazine C&EN (Chemical and Engineering News) published by The American Chemical Society. Read more

Dr. Ainara Sangroniz successfully defended her PhD titled: "Towards sustainable polymer packaging materials: from biodegradable to chemically recyclable polymers/Ontziratzerako material polimeriko jasangarrien garapena:Polimero biodegradagarriak eta kimikoki birziklagarriak". Read more

Our General Manager Ms. Idoia Azaldegui participates in the V Congreso Nacional de Compliance in Madrid. Read more

Dr. Sayrung Noppalit has succesfully defended her PhD in the co-tutelle regime between the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, POLYMAT) and the University of Pau and des Pays de l'Adour, under the supervision of Profs. José M. Asua and Laurent Billon. Read more

Dr. Janire Alkorta defended her PhD entitled 'Characterisation of multifunctional colloids synthesised via aqueous emulsion polymerisation mediated by macromolecular chain transfer agent(macro-CTA)' under the joint supervision of Prof. José Ramón Leiza and Dr. Iraida Loinaz from CIDETEC-IK4 Read more

Dr. Juan Pedro Mora defended his PhD Thesis entitled "New Materials for emerging photovoltaic and electronic technologies" under the joint supervision of Prof. Aurelio Mateo Alonso and Prof. Juan Luis Delgado. This thesis has been carried out in collaboration between two research groups of POLYMAT: The Molecuar and Supramolecular Polymers Group and The Hybrid Materials for Photovoltaics Group.  Read more

Prof. Diego Peña Gil from Centro Singular de Investigación en Química Bioloxica en Materiais MOleculares (CiQuS) and Prof. Juan Casado Cordón from the University of Málaga, have participated as invited speakers in the POLYMAT seminars on Monday, December 2, 2019.  Read more

The IV Edition of POLYMAT Day ended up with a great success. More than one hundred people attended the event and we could count on the participation of three invited speakers: Prof. Jean-Françoise Lutz from Charles Sadron Institute in Strasbourgh, Prof. Hiro Nishide from Waseda University in Japan and Dr. Ohiana Elizalde from Natural Fiber Welding in the USA. Read more

The paper 'Singlet Fission in Pyrene Fused Azaacene Dimers' by POLYMAT researchers Mr. Juan Pedro Mora and Prof. Aurelio Mateo-Alonso in collaboration with researchers from the Aveiro Institue of Materials (CICECO, Portugal) and the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany), selected as HOT PAPER in Angewandte International Edition Chemie. Read more

The new Ikerbasque reseachers at POLYMAT in the 2019 Call, received the diplomas from Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu, the Basque Premier, and from the Minister for Education, Cristina Uriarte. These researchers are the following: Read more

Iliane Rafaniello, founder of Surphase Start-up together with Ikerbasque Prof. Thomas Schäfer, was interviewed by Diario Vasco.  Read more

Prof. Tiberio A. Ezquerra from Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, IEM-CSIC (Madrid, Spain) participated as invited speaker in the POLYMAT Seminar Series 2019-2020, with a talk entitled 'Functional Polymer Surfaces by Nanostructuring: From Fundamentas to Applications'. Read more

The editorial "San Sebastian, a City of (Nano)Science and Technology" is published today at ACS Nano Journal in collaboration between POLYMAT and other Research Centers of San Sebastian: CIC-Biomagune, CIDETEC-IK4, DIPC, CFM and CIC-Nanogune. Read more

Scholars from Goierri Eskola at their last year of High School visited POLYMAT laboratories both at Korta buiding and at the Faculty of Chemistry. POLYMAT PhD students from the Innovative Polymers Group, Polymerization Processes Group and Responsive Polymers Therapeutic Group performed some experiments and showed them our laboratories. Read more

POLYMAT Scientific Director, Prof. José María Asua, and the President of Fundación Mujeres por África, Dª María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, have just signed a Cooperation Agreement to participate in the project 'Ellas Investigan' Read more

Dr. Jayant Khandare from the School of Pharmacy at WPU-MIT, India, has been invited to give a POLYMAT seminar entitled 'Design, Clinical Evaluation of Bio-polymeric Translations from Lab to the Clinic'. Read more

Ikerbasque research Professor David Mecerreyes has just been appointed new Corresponding Member of Jakiunde, the Basque Academy of Science, Arts and Letters Read more

POLIMERBIO Start up is selected among the six disruptive innovation projects at The Global Innovation day organized by Innobasque. Read more

POLYMAT joins one more year Bizitza Zientifikoak, an outreach event for scholars organized by Eureka! Zientzia Museoa. Researchers from the groups Innovative Polymers, Responsive Polymers Therapeutics, Polymerization Processes and Nanobioseparations presented their work to local students in the last years of their school stage. Read more

The research article "Efficient and stable perovskite solar cells based on perfluorinated polymers" published by POLYMAT researchers Dr. Silvia Valero, Mr. Tomás Soria, Dr, Nevena Marinova and the group leader Dr. Juan Luis Delgado, has been highlighted in the front cover of Polymer Chemistry journal. Read more

El grupo Responsive Polymer Therapeutics (http://www.polymat.eu/en/groups/Responsive-Polymer-Therapeutics-Group) de Polymat ofrece un puesto de investigador predoctoral (FPI) en relación al proyecto “Nanogeles sensibles a estímulos para la administración de proteínas terapéuticas a través de barreras biológicas. (NanoCross)”. Referencia de Proyectos de I+D+i «RETOS INVESTIGACIÓN»: RTI2018-099227-B-I00  Read more

Mr. Jorge Pascual, a PhD student of the group Hybrid Materials for Photovoltaics has successfully defended the PhD thesis under the supervision of Dr. Juan Luis Delgado. Congratulations Dr. Pascual! Read more

The new paper published by Prof. Mateo-Alonso, Dr. Marco Carini and PhD student Mauro Marongiu in collaboration with researchers from the Aveiro Institue of Materials (CICECO, Portugal) and Osaka University (Japan) has been selected as hot paper in Angewandte Chemie Read more

The International Discussion Meeting on Polymer Crystallization 2019 organized by Prof. Müller from POLYMAT ended up after three days with a great success and over 100 attendees. The conference took place at the Palacio Miramar in Donostia-San Sebastian. Read more

POLYMAT researchers Haritz Sardon, Agustín Etxeberria and Ainara Sangroniz in collaboration with researchers from the University of Colorado, develop a fully-recyclable  material for packaging applications. Read more

Silvia Valero defended her PhD entitles "Molecular engineering of semiconducting polymers for perovskite solar cells". The work was carried out under the supervision of Prof. Juan Luis Delgado & Prof. Aurelio Mateo Alonso. Thank You to Prof. Fernando Larga, Prof. Jaime Martin, Prof. Jose Berna  for being in the defense committee. Read more

Prof. Ullrich Steiner from the Adolphe Merkle Institute, Switzerland, delivered the following lecture  in POLYMAT "Energy Materials made by Polymer Self-Assembly: from Perovskite Photovoltaics to Li-ion Batteries" Read more

"Rheological basis for a survey of complex and multiphasic polymer systems" Read more

September 26th: Leire Meabe defended her PhD entitled "Innovative Polycarbonates for lithium conducting polymer electrolytes". The work was carried out in co-tutelle with the Université de Pau and Pays de l'Adour under the supervision of Dr. Laurent Rubatat and Prof. David Mecerreyes. Very Promising polymers for new batteries were developed in collaboration with CIC Energigune. Read more

Supervisors: Dr. Haritz Sardon (UPV-EHU) and Olivier Coulembier (Mons University, Belgium) Read more

Great success of the meeting. Congratulations and thank you very much for the great and hard job!! Read more

Participants from several companies and Universities attended the Course on "Emulsion Polymerization Processes", which was held in Donostia-San Sebastián on September 9-13, 2019. We are already preparing the 2020 Edition and we encourage you to attend.                             https://www.ehu.eus/en/web/polymat/epp-course Read more

The course is designed for scientists and engineers from industry and academia actively interested in emulsion polymerization. Read more

Prof Aurerio Mateo-Alonsopublished in JACS how Twisted Aromatics give rise to Wavy COFs Read more

Congratulations Francesca for winning the Best Doctoral Thesis issued by the association AIMAT, the Italian Association of Materials Engineering. Read more

Prof. Haritz Sardon from the Innovative Polymers Group of Polymat has recently published a paper in ACS macroletters about the use of Organocatalysts Based on Ionic Mixtures of Acids and Bases for High Temperature polymerizations. Read more

"Synthesis of hydrophilic polymers with comb structure by free radical copolymerization for cementitious formulations" Read more

Today POLYMAT organised "How to avoid risks while working in the labs" course given by our researcher Dr. Alex Simula. Besides, our General Manager Idoia Azaldegui, explained POLYMAT Compliance Management System. Read more

"An innovative organocatalyst for the recycling of commodity polymers". Supervisors: Dr. Fernando Ruipérez Cillán  and  Prof. Matthew I. Gibson Read more

Dr. Stuart Coles from the WMG (Warwick Manufacturing Group), The University of Warwick, Uk delivered the following lecture  in POLYMAT "Avoiding the fatberg: turning waste oil into polymers and composites" Read more

The winners will receive an economic prize of 10.500 euros and access to aid programmes, advice and training. Read more

"Applied development of adhesive formulations of industrial interest" Read more

Very happy knowing that POLYMAT Start Up "SURPHASE", is one of the nine finalists of the Toribio Echeverria Awards. Read more

"Precise characterization and modeling of particle morphology development in emulsion polymerization" Read more

Idoia Azaldegui is very honoured to participate in this exciting edition of Promociona VII Edition and glad to obtain one of the 30 scholarships of the Promociona Project. Read more

The main objective of the LION-HEARTED project, funded by the European Commission, is to develop a novel approach to promote cardiac repair by blending polymers, cardiology and light technologies. Read more

Phd candidate of Prof. Maria Paulis and Dr. Clemens Auschra. Thank You to Nicolas Ballard, Agnieszka Tercjak, Jose M. Asua, Joseph Keddie, Aleksandra Buzarovska for being in the defense committee. It was a Marie Curie funded PhD project which was a collaboration between POLYMAT and BASF Germany. Read more

http://www.eirma.org/content/cheaper-and-more-sustainable-desalination-how-blue-sky-research-finds-application-large-scal?fbclid=IwAR3QKG_m9_c6fDpglFk0upnraeRFKgdVkz2BqE-wOOYZ-huxdDCoj6PW9DY Read more

First Phd candidate of Dr.Nicholas Ballard . Thank You to Angels Serra, Carmen Mijangos, Joserra Leiza, Elodie Bourgeat-Lami and @KeddieLab for being in the defense committee. Read more

It ratifies the innovative commitment of the Basque biotechnology company Polimerbio and provides support for its activity in the field of bioabsorbable medical devices. Read more

Starting from 2003, the European Polymer Federation has organized a series of EPF Summer Schools on hot topics of scientific and industrial interest, aimed for PhD-students, postdoctoral researchers, academic researchers and industrial researchers. Read more

Corporate Compliance Ethical construction. This is one of the key points that will be analyzed in the IV International Compliance Congress. Polymat implemented a Corporate Compliance model more than a year ago and now it"s participating in this event to keep going. Read more

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Congratulations to Beñat Olave! POLYMAT researcher awarded with the Best Flash Talk of Aptamers 2019 (Oxford) with his talk "DNA-aptamers in Ionic Liquids for Bioseparation and Biosensing" #AptaOx19 #AptaSoc @AptamerSociety Read more

POLYMAT is offering Scholarships to students of the Master in Chemistry and Polymers or any other official Master degree of UPV/EHU or any other University (subject to the formalization of an agreement), to carry out their final Master’s thesis 2019-2020 in one of our research groups. Read more

POLYMAT is one of the ten new companies selected to form part of the Erantzukide network that promotes gender equality and co-responsibility. Read more

Ainhoa Aizpuru, Economic promotion Deputy of Gipuzkoa Provincial Government, celebrated a meeting to interact with the 2018 Fellows grantees. Dr. Jon Maíz, Dr. Connie Ocando and José M. Asua POLYMAT Scientific Director attended the event. Read more

Yesterday February 11th concurring with the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, POLYMAT Researcher Audrey Bonnefond explained the research of some of the center's women scientists to the students gathered at the center. Read more

Today, concurring with The International Day of Women and Girls in Science, one of our excellent female researchers Radmila Tomovska was interviewed by Diario Vasco:https://www.diariovasco.com/ Read more

Jon Maíz, POLYMAT Research Associate, member of Advanced Multiphasic Polymers (AMP) Group, receives the Iberdrola 2018 Sholarship, to lead the project “Blue Energy Harvesting from Ocean Waves using Piezoelectric Flexible Polymers”. Read more

POLYMAT is offering Summer Internships to 3^rd and 4^th Year Undergraduate Students on Chemistry (or other Science or Engineering degree). These grants will last for 2 months and a half and the institution offers 560€/month per grant*. Read more

The third edition of POLYMAT Day has been taken place in the auditorium of the Ignacio Mª Barriola on November 29. This edition we have counted with the presence of three invited speaker,  Dr. Miriam M. Unterlass from the Vienna University of Technnology and Dr. Nora Alonso Casajús and Dr. Xana Belastegui, cofounders of Iden Biotechnology. Read more

POLYMAT receives the Mutualia Award in the category of equality. The project 'Emakiker Grant for scientific women in polymers' was presented by our General Manager Ms. Idoia Aazaldegui during the 'IV International Congress in Safety and Health in the Workplace' organiced by Osalan. The project was recognized by the jury and POLYMAT got the equality award. Read more

The recent achievements of the FET-Open project 2D-INK funded by the European Commission and leaded by Prof. Aurelio Mateo-Alonso are summarized in this video: Read more

The 10th ECNP International Conference on Nanostructured Polymers and Nanocomposites (http://www.ecnp-eu.org/sansebastian.php), which was held from October 3 to 5, 2018 in San Sebastian, has been a great success. Over 200 participants from all over the world have taken part in the conference. Read more

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Prof. José M. Asua participates together with other researchers & companies in the Forum about sustainability and use of plastics organized by the CEOE Aragon and Instituto de Investigación en Ingeniería de Aragón Read more

Today POLYMAT organised "How to avoid risks while working in the labs” course given by our researcher Dr. Alex Simula. Besides, our General Manager Idoia Azaldegui, explained POLYMAT Compliance Prevention System and the HR Excellence in Research award implementation process. Read more

POLYMAT organizes the 10th ECNP International Conference on Nanostructured Polymers and Nanocomposites (http://www.ecnp-eu.org/sansebastian.php), which will be held from October 3 to 5, 2018 in San Sebastian, Spain. Prior to the ECNP Conference, the 6th Young Polymer Scientists meeting will take place (October 1 to 2). Read more

Nerea Jimenez has received the award to the best academic record of Gipuzkoa's Campus Masters (Chemistry and Polymers). The ceremony took place during the 2018 Master's presentation in Gipuzkoa's Campus on Friday 16. Read more

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POLYMAT researcher Haritz Sardon has been short-listed from 19 outstanding young researchers in the world  for the Young Investigator Award 2018. Read more

EMAKIKER grants are aimed at excellent female researchers at postdoc level wishing to explore creative, high risk&high reward directions. The candidate(s) should show potential for an academic career and aspire to a professorship at POLYMAT. EMAKIKER grant should enable female researchers to acquire independence and scientific autonomy and to sharpen their profile for the next career step. They will lead a research project, working independently and managing their own team.  Read more

POLYMAT is offering Summer Internships to 3^rd and 4^th Year Undergraduate Students on Chemistry (or other Science or Engineering degree). These grants will last for 2 months and a half and the institution offers 560€/month per grant*. Read more

POLYMAT researchers Jaime Martín and Jorge Pascual received the 2017 award of the Iberdrola Foundation.   Read more

The Group in Science and Engineering of Polymeric Biomaterials has been recently awarded with the first Prize of the Manuel Laborde Award for their project POLIMERBIO. The spin-off was set up few months ago and is active in a variety of markets, with a focus on the biodegradable materials for the medical and the tissue engineering fields. Read more

Last December 1st, the second edition of POLYMAT Day was held in Carlos Santamaría Center, in Donostia-San Sebastian. In this annual event, the most relevant results of POLYMAT were presented. More that 100 participants from all the group that take part of POLYMAT attended the event. Read more

Prof. José María Asua, recently awarded with the "Research Excellence Award 2017" by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ), receives the award sponsored by the International company BASF.
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For the second year in a row, POLYMAT participates in the Donostia Innovation Week 2017 organized by Fomento San Sebastian. This time, we had the occasion to take part in two activities: Read more

Prof. Fred Wudl from the University of California (Santa Barbara) will deliver three lectures in POLYMAT on ‘The Development of Molecular and Polymeric Conductors’. Read more

More than 50 people from different international institutions (both academy and industry) participated in the Emulsion Polymerization Course organized by POLYMAT.  Read more

Dr. Aitor Larrañaga (ZIBIO Group), in collaboration with Prof. Abhay Pandit from the National University of Ireland, has just published a review paper about polymer capsules for therapeutic applications in Progress in Materials Science (IF: 31.1). The paper is freely available until October 9, 2017:  Read more

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Dr. Jorge Fernández from the ZIBIO group in POLYMAT headed by Prof. Sarasua, has been awarded with the 'Best Thesis 2016' award by the Spanish Polymers Group (GEP). His thesis was entitled 'Synthesis and characterization of biodegradable thermoplastic elastomers for medical applications: Novel copolyesters as an alternative to poly(lactide) and poly(e-caprolactone)' Read more

POLYMAT is offering Scholarships to students of the Master in Chemistry and Polymers or any other official Master degree of UPV/EHU, to carry out their final Master’s thesis in one of our research groups. Read more

POLYMAT endorsed the European Researchers' Charter and the Code of Conduct for Researcher Recruitment. Specifically, the European Charter for Researchers outlines the functions, responsibilities and rights of investigators and their employers. The aim is to ensure that the relation between these parties contributes to successful performance in the generation, transfer and shared use of knowledge, as well as the professional development of researchers from the early stages.  Read more

The International Polymer Colloids Group Conference has been held in Arantzazu (Oñati) from June 23 to June 30 and it has counted with 150 participants from all over the world.  Read more

The work recently published by researchers of the Polymerization Processes Group appears in the cover of the Polymer Chemistry journal, Issue 10, 2017. Read more

Prof. Juan Luis Delgado from the Hybrid Materials for Photovoltaics Group in POLYMAT is the guest editor together with Prof. Vladimir Dyakonov, Scientific Director of the Bavarian Centre of Applied Energy Research (ZAE Bayern) in Germany.  Read more

Prof. Aurelio Mateo-Alonso and Dr. Marco Carini from the Molecular and Supramolecular Materials group of POLYMAT, in collaboration with other researchers from The University of the Basque Country, the University of Barcelona, the Institute of Bioengineering of Barcelona (IBEC) and the University of Aveiro have recently published a paper in Nature Communications about Molecuar Nanowires "High Conductance Values in π-Folded Molecular Junctions". Read more

This is the third time that POLYMAT takes part in the 'X Carrera de Empresas' in Donostia-San Sebastian. Read more

Prof. José M. Asua, Scientific Director of BERC POLYMAT, has been awarded by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry with the "Research Excellence Award 2017" (Premios a la Excelencia Investigadora RSEQ 2017) Read more

POLYMAT participates in the 10 years of Ikerbasque. Read more

Prof. Maria Forsyth from Deakin University in Melbourne (Australia) is visiting POLYMAT until July in the Innovative Polymers Group headed by Prof. Mecerreyes. Read more

Dr. Jon Maiz was interviewed by Antena3 Noticias for being one of the brilliant Spanish young scientists who could come back home after few years abroad. This was possible thanks to the Programme for attracting Local Talent to the town launched by Fomento San Sebastian Read more

PhD student Elodie Limousin wins the 4th Scientific Photography Award organized by POLYMAT.  Read more

Euskadi has attracted more than 30M€ from the European Research Council (ERC) since it was stablished by the European Commission in 2007. 14 out of the 23 grants have been  gained by Ikerbasque researchers.POLYMAT, with three ERC grantees and 4 grants, has played and important role in this achievement. Read more

Large representation of POLYMAT in the "5th International Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials" last week in Lisbon. Prof. Jose M. Asua, Post-doctoral researcher Ali Aboudzadeh and PhD students Alicia de San Luis, Samane Mehravar and Elodie Limousin attended the conference and presented their research work to the scientific community. Read more

POLYMAT participates as coordinator of one of the roundtable discussions in the World Cafe organized by the equality body of the Gipuzkoa's Main Council. This organism is planning an equality and co-resposibility plan for the next spring. The challenges foreseen in this event will contribute to the enrichement of the aforementioned plan. Read more

Since 1967 Fresmak makes high precision clamps and mooring solutions. In its 50th aniversary, the company launches to the market F-Grip, a new clamping adhesive. This innovative solution has been made possible thanks to the collaboration with POLYMAT. In addition, the project has been recently funded by the European Commission through the Framework Programme H2020.  Read more

El proyecto SUPRACOF (CTQ2016-77970-R) liderado por el investigador Aurelio Mateo Alonso ha sido uno de los proyectos seleccionados para financiación en la convocatoria de ayudas a proyectos de I+D correspondientes a la convocatoria 2016 del Programa Estatal de Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad, en el marco del Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016. Las entidades financiadoras son la Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) y el Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER). Read more

On Saturday, February 18, Jon Maiz was interviewed in Cadena SER Radio Euskadi together with other two researchers from CEIT and Tecnum and the responsible for Innovation and Competitiveness of Fomento San Sebastian, Iñigo Olaizola. Read more

POLYMAT is offering Summer Internships to 3^rd and 4^th Year Undergraduate Students on Chemistry (or other Science such as Physics, Biology, etc or Engineering degree). These grants will last for 2 months and a half and the institution offers 560€/month per grant*. Read more

Radio interview at Euskadi Irratia of POLYMAT researcher Dr. Haritz Sardon. After getting the  Ikerbasque Research Fellowship, Dr. Sardon explains his research project to the general public in the Basque Country Read more

POLYMAT among other 30 top Companies from Gipuzkoa, participated in the 1st Gipuzkoa Talent Fair organized by Diputación Foral de Gipuzkoa. Read more

Haritz Sardon receives the Ikerbasque fellowship award from Ikerbasque Foundation and by hands of the Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu. This award will help the researcher to consolidate his research career in BERC POLYMAT Read more

The first edition of POLYMAT Day was held in Donostia-San Sebastian at the Carlos Santamaría Center on December 12, 2016. More than 100 people of the twelve different research groups attended the event. An introduction by the Scientific Director of BERC POLYMAT Prof. José María Asua and the Director of POLYMAT Institute Prof. Jose Ramón Leiza opened the session that was followed by presentations of one representative of each research group.  Read more

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The Ikerbasque Research Professor at POLYMAT has been recently awarded with the prestigious Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council. The 2 million euros grant will allow the researcher to develop his project e-sequence during the next five years. Read more

POLYMAT and CIC Energigune, which have already collaborated from 2013, signed now an agreement with the aim of developing new materials that face current challenges such as the safey, the durability and the price of the batteries. Read more

Dr. Miren Aguirre participated in the Innovation Week organized by Fomento San Sebastian. Last Thursday 27, she gave a talk to the non-specialized audience entitled "La nanotecnología al servicio de pinturas inteligentes".  Read more

POLYMAT has been recently awarded with the Fellows Programme grant from Gipuzkoa's Main Council. This is the first time we receive such a grant, which allows us to bring to POLYMAT a Basque talent young scientist from the Imperial College in London. Read more

El Diputado General de Gipuzkoa anuncia el lanzamiento de una experiencia piloto denominada GIPUZKOALAB en la que participarán 10 empresas de Gipuzkoa. El objetivo es abordar en la práctica la conciliación e igualdad de género en las empresas gipuzcoanas. Esta experiencia piloto cuenta con asesoramiento de la UPV/EHU. Read more

A group of 60 students from St. Patrick's English School have visited POLYMAT as part of the Fomento San Sebastian WeekINN Agenda. Before visiting the labs, they had the chance to attend a scientific talk about polymers so that they could better understand what polymers are and the main research activities of POLYMAT. Afterwards, they went to visit the labs, guided by PhD students of the Centre. During this tour, they could see and participate in some scientific experiments such as film formation of paints, the behaviour of superabsorbants polymers in baby dipers or preparation of carbon from sugar and sulfuric acid.  Read more

Prof. Jose M. Asua together with other Research Center representatives, met with the main representatives of Gipuzkoa's Council on occassion of the "Fellows Programme". This programe allows to capture and retain local talent in Gipuzkoa since 2000. POLYMAT has been recently awarded with one of these grants.  Read more

The article 'Atom-Thick Solution to Energy Storage Conundrum', which features the 2D-INK Project coordinated by POLYMAT Prof. Aurelio Mateo-Alonso, has been highlighted in the Horizon EU Research&Innovation Magazine. Read more

A bridge from research to industrial application: POLYMAT and BASF direct three Phd Thesis thanks to TRACKWAY project. Read more

Jorge Pascual, member of the Hybrid Materials for Photovoltaics Group, from POLYMAT, has been awarded with one of the Energy and Environmental Research Grants of Fundación Iberdrola, which is awarded to young top-level professionals who are capable of contributing to changing the energy model. Read more

Soft Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications: Book published by Prof. Jacqueline Forcada from POLYMAT Read more

María Loroño interviews Professor Juan Luis Delgado from POLYMAT. Read more

Prof. José M. Asua, Scientific Director of Berc POLYMAT participates in the Talent House 5th anniversary video. Read more

The interesting Conference of Professor Juan Luis Delgado about "Energy and Sustainable Development: In the right direction?" at Pint of Science, generated an enriching debate with the audience on Monday 23rd of May.
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New Book published about polymers for Drug Delivery by Prof. Jacqueline Forcada.
"Controlled Release Systems: Advances in Nanobottles and Active Nanoparticles" Edited by Alex van Herk, Jacqueline Forcada, Giorgia Pastorin
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Three POLYMAT teams participated yesterday in the "Carrera de Empresas" in Donostia-San Sebastian, organized by Adegi, El Diario Vasco and e! Donosti Eventos.. Read more

Presentación por el Alcalde de Donostia-San Sebastián del plan de desarrollo económico Donostia Up! Read more

Ainhoa Aizpuru, the Economic Promotion, Rural and Territorial Balance Deputy from Gipuzkoa, and Garikoitz Agote, the Innovation Director visited Polymat to learn about the activities and future challenges of the Research Center. Read more

Prof. Juan Luis Delgado´s article in Berria Newspaper: you can read the whole article in this link: Read more

Very Important Paper (VIP) in ChemSusChem published by the group of Hybrid Materials for Photovoltaics from BERC POLYMAT. Read more

BERC POLYMAT Prof. Mateo-Alonso presents the european project 2D-INK at the FET-Open Info Day in Brussels (25.1.2016). Read more

During January 21-22 (2016), we had the great pleasure to host Prof. Takashi Nakanishi from Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (http://samurai.nims.go.jp/NAKANISHI_Takashi-e.html) Read more

El Prof. de la UPV/EHU José M. Asua, Director Científico del BERC POLYMAT ha sido galardonado con el prestigioso Premio de Invención e Investigación en Química Aplicada, “Profesor Martínez Moreno" otorgado por la Universidad de Sevilla y la Fundación García-Cabrerizo. Read more

New article published in collaboration within POLYMAT teams!! Emulsion Polymerization and ionic liquid chemistry gives lots of possibilities such as new latexes and coatings with magnetic properties!!! Read more

Con este acuerdo se priorizará el apoyo a los investigadores vinculados al ámbito de los polímeros y se desarrollarán mecanismos específicos como el Programa Retorno del Talento. Ambas entidades impulsarán actividades que promuevan la innovación en las pymes y los emprendedores con la transferencia de conocimiento y oportunidades para el impulso de proyectos mediante programas compartidos. Read more

POLYMAT SPOTLIGHT 2016: International Conference on Macromolecular Materials Read more

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BERC POLYMAT, "Hybrid Materials for Photovoltaics" Group´s article on the first position of the most accessed articles in ChemSusChem (09/2015) Read more

BERC POLYMAT, "Hybrid Materials for Photovoltaics" Group´s article on the cover of ChemSusChem Read more

BERC POLYMAT UPV/EHU Researcher Prof. Alejandro J. Müller´s article on the cover of the Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics: Read more

BERC POLYMAT UPV/EHU Researcher Prof. Alejandro J. Müller invited to give a conference at UdeM: "NUCLEATION, CRYSTALLIZATION AND MORPHOLOGY OF CONFINED DIBLOCK COPOLYMERS IN NANOPOROUS ALUMINA TEMPLATES" On Wednesday, October 21, 2015. Read more

POLYMAT's PhD students Jessica Desport and Guiomar Hernandez won two of the "Best Talk Awards” in the  “1st French-Spanish Joint Congress for Young Researchers in Polymers”JIP-JEPO 2015 celebrated last week in Donostia-San Sebastian. Congratulations to all the winners!! Read more

BERC POLYMAT Prof. Aurelio Mateo-Alonso was invited to give a talk at the Inagurational Symposium of the Castellon Institute for Advanced Materials last Friday September 18th. Read more

POLYMAT and the University of the Basque Country have initiated a series of workshops, in the framework of the FET-OPEN project 2D-INK, entitled POLYMAT’s SPOTLIGHT. Read more

BERC Polymat "Hybrid Materials for Photovoltaics " group article published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition: Read more

Entrevista de Aurelio Mateo-Alonso en el Programa de Radio Euskadi "La mecánica del Caracol" sobre el Proyecto 2D-INK : http://www.eitb.tv/es/radio/radio-euskadi/la-mecanica-del-caracol/2514856/3371688/el-grafeno-y-el-futuro-de-los-dispositivos-electronicos/?_ga=1.87098064.9342711.1437417200&__utma=144586529.9342711.1437417200.1437417200.1437417222.2&__utmb=144586529.5.10.1437417222&__utmc=144586529&__utmx=-&__utmz=144586529.1437417222.2.2.utmcsr=google|utmccn=%28organic%29|utmcmd=organic|utmctr=%28not%20provided%29&__utmv=-&__utmk=57231658 Read more

Aintzane Pikabea from POLYMAT has won one of the two Prizes for the Best Oral Presentations in the 6th Iberian Meeting on Colloids and Interfaces (RICI6) (http://www.rici6.com/), which was held in Guimaraes, Portugal, last week. Read more

BERC-POLYMAT UPV/EHU Researcher,  Jessica Desport was awarded as one of the Poster Prize Winner in the IPCG Polymer Colloids Conference 2015 held few days ago on the campus of The University of New Hampshire, USA.. Read more

BERC POLYMAT, Prof. David Mecerreyes delivered an invited talk in the International Symposium on Ionic Polymerization 2015 in Bordeaux last week.

The program of the Conference put together the “classic” and new “tendencies” in polymer chemistry.

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Prof. Juan Luis Delgado BERC POLYMAT, Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU, dará una conferencia sobre "Células Fotovoltaicas Orgánicas e Híbridas", el Lunes, 13 de julio 2015 Salón de actos CITIUS Hora: 11:30. Read more

Once a year, some dozens of Nobel Laureates convene at Lindau to meet the next generation of leading scientists: undergraduates, PhD students,and post-doc researchers from all over the world. Read more

Prof. Thomas Schäfer has been invited to give a keynote lecture at Euromembrane 2015 on DNA-Gating Membranes, Aachen, 6-10 September. Read more

Prof. Thomas Schäfer has been invited to present lecture on stimuli-responsive membranes at the Macromolecular Symposium of Pacificchem, Honolulu, Hawaii, 15-20 December. Read more

The ISSON Summer Schools will give the opportunity to young researchers and early-career scientists and engineers to participate in a series of lectures on the emerging fields of Nanosciences & Nanotechnologies. Read more

Today, Wednesday 24th of June, our new Scientific Production Software Program has been presented by Dr. Maitane Salsamendi to all the POLYMAT Researchers. Read more

Maria Loroño Leturiondo is conducting a study on Science Communication together with the University of Copenhagen and The Basque Center for Climate Change (BC3). Read more

Professor Alejandro J. Müller invited to give a "Key-Note Lecture" at BIOPOL 2015 in DONOSTIA from the 6th to the 8th of October 2015. Read more

BERC POLYMAT, Juan Luis Delgado Researcher, will deliver an invited talk entitled "Carbon-Based Materials for light harvesting and solar cells" on Tuesday, June 30, 2015 in VYKM 2 between 15:00 and 17:00 hours.
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Professor Alejandro J. Müller has been invited to deliver an "Invited Lecture" at The Seventh International Symposium on Engineering Plastics (EP'2015 Xining) that will be held in Xining, Qinghai Province, China, August 18-21, 2015: Read more

Professor Alejandro J. Müller has been invited to deliver the 2014-2015 IUPAC Lecture in Chemistry at the University of Montreal, Canada. Read more

Professor Alejandro J. Müller has been invited to give two invited lectures at PACIFICHEM, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA DECEMBER 15 - 20, 2015 Read more

2nd Announcement of the Emulsion Polymerization Processes Course Read more

Dr. Haritz Sardon from BERC-Polymat yesterday talking about "The importance of chemistry in a sustainable world" at pintofscienceES Read more

Dr. Miren Aguirre, a researcher from Polymat talking about "Nanotechnology at the service of intelligent paintings" at pintofscienceES Read more

Dr. Audrey Bonnefond, a researcher from Polymat talking about "Nanotechnology at the service of intelligent paintings" at pintofscienceES Read more

The 2015 EMN Istanbul Meeting aims to be a unique platform for leading scientists, researchers, scholars and engineers from academia, R&D laboratories and industry around the world to exchange, share and learn the most recent advancement on various aspects related to nanotechnology, and energy-related materials and technologies. Read more

The International Society of Biomedical Polymers and Polymeric Biomaterials (ISBPPB) organization is engaged in educating, networking, advocating and advancing the field of biomedical polymers and polymeric biomaterials internationally. ISBPPB intends to serve members from industry, academia and government institutions worldwide. Read more

The 2015 IPCG meeting's program will bring together world leading scientists to discuss the latest developments in the area of colloidal polymer science. The talks of the invited speakers will feature a balance of traditional and emerging applications for polymer colloids, following the themes of colloids for life, engineering colloids, and colloidal machines.  Read more

The Masterclass of Excellence Mentors are distinguished researchers representing diverse scientific domains from across Europe: Thomas Schäfer – professor at University of the Basque Country, Spain, a multi-disciplinary researcher of mixed-matrix and stimuli-responsive membrane technologies. Read more

On Sunday May 10th,  POLYMAT researchers participate in the VIII Enterprise Racing organized by Adegi, El Diario Vasco and e! Donosti Eventos. Read more

Master Grants & Praktiges Summer Internships for 3rd and 4th year students
Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. Read more

On Tuesday May 19^th at 7 pm, at Ni Neu Bar, (Kursaal) Dr. Haritz Sardon, Dr. Miren Aguirre and Dr. Audrey Bonnefond from POLYMAT will make a speech in Spanish about "The importance of chemistry in a sustainable world" and about the "Nanotechnology at the service of intelligent paintings". Read more

Polymerization in aqueous dispersed phase is spawning due to environmental pressures and a constant market demand for developing products of increased performance. At the same time, global competition are pushing emulsion polymer producers to efficient, safe and environmentally friendly production of materials with improved performance, which can only be achieved by means of knowledge-based production strategies. Read more

Today, Friday 13th of February, Laboratory Safety Course has been presented at POLYMAT headquarters by our Risk Prevention Technician, Marcos Morales, from "IMQ Prevención". Read more

La investigadora de la UPV/EHU Ana Margarida Fernandes está trabajando en el desarrollo de "canicas líquidas", también conocidas como agua seca. Read more

We are very pleased to announce that Professor Alejandro J. Müller from POLYMAT, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), has become Editor for Polymer Physics and Technology of the European Polymer Journal as of 1 November 2014. Read more

POLYMAT Group Photo, Christmas 2014. Read more

1st French-Spanish Joint Congress for Young Researchers in Polymers in Donostia-San Sebastian SPAIN, from the 14-18 September 2015 (Carlos Santa Maria Center). Read more

An article from Thomas Schäfer On behalf of 15 correspondents (see Supplementary Information for full list).
Science policy: Europe is failing young researchers. Read more

Los científicos IKERBASQUE incorporados a sus puestos de investigación durante 2014 fueron recibidos ayer por el Lehendakari, Iñigo Urkullu, durante el encuentro anual celebrado en Lehendakaritza. Read more

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Thomas Schäfer, Presidente de la Red Europea de Jóvenes Investigadores entrevistado en El Diario Vasco. Read more

Thomas Schäfer, Chair of the European Network of Young Researchers gave a Conference Session "The Next Generation Innovators" in the European Parlament on November 18th. Read more

Orden de 4 de noviembre de 2014, de la Consejera de Educación, Universidades e Investigación por la que se convoca el Premio Euskadi de Investigación 2014, con el fin de fomentar la actividad científica. Modalidad Ciencia y Tecnología. Read more

Nanomedicine and Material Application of Functionalized Carbon Nanomaterials Seminar Read more

Our  work has been highlighted in the cover and with frontispiece image in the European Young Chemists Issue ow.ly/Ah7Rc Read more

EL GOBIERNO VASCO DESTINA 40 MILLONES DE EUROS AL PROGRAMA BERC PARA EL IMPULSO DE LA INVESTIGACIÓN DE EXCELENCIA EN EUSKADI DURANTE LOS PRÓXIMOS 4 AÑOS Read more

Prof. Aurelio Mateo-Alonso is one of the invited speakers in the 16th International Symposium on Novel Aromatic Compounds (ISNA-16). Read more

Dr. Haritz Sardon, member of the Innovative Polymers Group, from POLYMAT, has been awarded with one of the Energy and Environmental Research Grants of Fundación Iberdrola, which is awarded to young top-level professionals who are capable of contributing to changing the energy model.  Read more

Prof. Aurelio Mateo-Alonso, Ikerbasque researcher, who leads Polymat Molecular and Supramolecular Materials Group, invited Itziar Alkorta, Basque Government Vice counselor for Education and University and Fernando Cossío, Director of Ikerbasque Foundation to visit the Polymat Laboratories. Read more

SPE NANOTEC 2014 is a technical conference addressed to supply a technical-commercial plattform to share and to present case studies of new nanotechnology applications that have shown to enhance the polymers and plastics performance. Read more

The 1st Summer School in "Polymers for a Sustainable World" (SUSPOL) will take place in Donostia-San Sebastian (Spain) in June 24-27, 2014. This summer school will be organized in collaboration between two Marie Curie Initial Training Networks, Renaissance (http://www.renaissance-itn.eu) and Refine (http://www.fp7-refine.eu), in the frame of the Summer Courses of the University of the Basque Country. Registration will take place in May 2014. Read more

Conferencias UFI-2014
Grupo de Catálisis Asimétrica y Síntesis Química Read more

Particles and particle systems characterisation: the Basque Country Special Issue Read more

Bizitzan badira momentu batzuk non, gustatu edo ez, erabakiak hartu behar diren. Ez gabiltza ile kolorea aldatzeaz edota kotxe berri bat erosteaz ari. Erabaki garrantzitsuez mintzo gara. Bizitza betiko markatuta utzi dezaketen erabakiez, hain zuzen ere. Hauetako bat da, zalantzarik gabe, ikasketen aukeraketa. Hori bai lan zaila! Asko pentsatutakoan, batzuek fisika ikastea erabakiko dute, besteek, berriz, filosofia. Normalean, 18 urte ingururekin egiten da aukeraketa hori eta, bizitzako momentu horretan, askok ez dute bat ere argi etorkizunean zer izan nahi duten. Bokazioak ez du beraien atean oraingoz jo. Read more

Additional information may be obtained by contacting Y. Reyes, Univ Basque Country UPV EHU, POLYMAT, Polimeroen Zientzia & Telmol Saila, Joxe Mari Korta ZentroaKim Zientzien Fak, Donostia San Sebastian 20018, Spain. Additional authors for this research include P.J. Peruzzo, M. Fernandez,M. Paulis and J.R. Leiza.
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Minisymposium: Frontiers on Molecular and Supramolecular Materials: from Synthesis to Applications Read more

The Symposium is jointly organized by the Technische Universität Ilmenau (TU Ilmenau) and the technology-oriented polymer research institute TITK in Rudolstadt.  Read more

Entrevista a Jacqueline Forcada, Investigadora Principal del Grupo Bionanopartículas de la UPV/EHU.  Read more

Entrevista a José M. Asua, Director del BERC POLYMAT. Read more

Dr. Raul Garcia Sanz, member of the Molecular and Supramolecular Materials Group, from POLYMAT, has been awarded with one of the Energy and Environmental Research Grants of Fundación Iberdrola, which is awarded to young top-level professionals who are capable of contributing to changing the energy model.  Read more

Los científicos avisan a las Administraciones de las graves consecuencias que podrían desprenderse de la falta de apoyos a la investigación. Read more

 Last December in Brussels, more than 70 scientists, policymakers, and representatives of European funding bodies gathered to explore how Europe could better support the next generation of scientists. The meeting marked the official launch of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE), a pan-European, grassroots association of top young scientists intended to foster scientific exchange and networking and to influence science policy. Read more

 La consejera y presidenta de Ikerbasque Isabel Celaá y el rector de la UPV/EHU Iñaki Goirizelaia han presentado estos nuevos centros junto a sus Directores Científicos. Se eleva a nueve el número de Centros de Investigación Básica y Excelencia (BERC) con que cuenta el sistema de ciencia en el País Vasco. Read more

El Consejo de Europa reconoce a David Mecerreyes, investigador del recientemente creado BERC Polymat, UPV/EHU, con un prestigioso contrato ERC Consolidator del Programa Europeo IDEAS. Read more

Logra contratar a casi 200 investigadores procedentes de 24 países para trabajar en la Fundación Read more

BILBAO. Ya se conoce la especialidad y los responsables de los tres nuevos centros de investigación que pasarán a formar parte del sistema de ciencia vasco. Los tres centros que se pondrán en marcha son el Basque Excellence Research Centre (BERC) de materiales, aplicaciones y nanoestructuras, que dirigirá José Manuel Barandiaran; el BERC de Neurociencia, a cargo de Carlos Matute; y el BERC de diseño macromolecular, con José Mª Asua como responsable. La presidenta del Patronato de Ikerbasque, la consejera de Educación Isabel Celaá, anunció ayer que la Fundación Ikerbasque ha iniciado los trámites correspondientes para poner en marcha tres nuevos centros. Read more

Euskadi contará desde este mismo año con tres nuevos BERC -centros vascos de investigación de excelencia, por sus siglas en inglés-, que se centrarán en las neurociencias, el análisis de materiales, aplicaciones y nanoestructuras, y los polímeros (macromoléculas). Read more

Esta decisión se ha tomado tras un importante trabajo de evaluación previo con la participación de expertos internacionales y el propio comité científico asesor de la Fundación Read more

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Basque Center for Macromolecular Design and Engineering-POLYMAT Fundazioa (www.polymat.eu)  is a research center based in Donostia-San Sebastian associated to the University of the Basque Country. It is devoted to use-inspired fundamental research on synthesis, assembly and processing of polymers.  Read more

The main objective of the LION-HEARTED project, funded by the European Commission, is to develop a novel approach to promote cardiac repair by blending nanotechnology, cardiology and light technologies. Read more