News
General
09/2025– The group moved to the Interdisciplinary Center for Chemistry and Biology (CICA), University of A Coruña, Spain.
06/2025– Check out the future of (nano)material science in a work NEST contributed to: synthesis, Robots, AI, synchrotron all together. Here.
03/2025– We contributed with 2 talks at the UNG:DOX in Vejle and Herning, DK
02-03/2025– We are happy to host Bartłomiej Nowacki and Dr Albert Smalcerz from the Silesian Universtity of Technology, Poland
30/09/2024– Our work on the importance of controlled lights for the synthesis of surfactant-free gold nanoparticle is now published in ChemSusChem.
29/09/2024– New insights into the electrochemistry of Ir nanoparticles for the OER published in a collaboration with the groups of R. Pittowski, M. Arenz and K. M. Ø. Jensen in JACS.
22/08/2024– Our work towards the automation of the synthesis of nanoparticles is now published.
27/02/2023– Our work on gold nanoparticle synthesis is now published in Chem. Mater.
13/01/2023- Our work on iridium nanoparticle formation is now published in JACS.
Publications (selection)
March 2025– Our recent progress to control the size and (electro) catalytic poperties of surfactant-free gold nanoparticles is out in Materials Today Nano.
February 2025– Our recent progress to control the room temperature synthesis of gold nanoparticles without surfactant and the importance of controlled lights to do so is now published in ChemSusChem. A fruitful collaboration with the group of Nina Lock at Aarhus University.
September 2024– New insights into the electrochemistry of Ir nanoparticles for the OER published in a collaboration with the groups of R. Pittowski (Uni, Copenhagen, DK), M. Arenz (Uni. Bern, CH) and K. M. Ø. Jensen (Uni. Copenhagen, DK) in JACS.
August 2024– Our recent progress in the automation of colloidal syntheses of nanoparticles is out in Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering aspects. A fruitful collaboration with the team of Martin Lahn Heriksen at Aarhus University.
August 2023– Everything you need to know for an easy start to easily teach various concepts in Nanotechnology and Green Chemistry published in the Journal of Chemical Education.
March 2023– Our work review on surfactant-free colloidal nanoparticles is out in ACS Catal.
February 2023– Our work from in collaboration with Uni. Copenhagen, DK, and in particular the group of Kirsten M. Ø. Jensen is now available in Chem. Mater. This work was also made in collaboration with the groups of Profs Søren B. Simonsen (DK), Matthew S. Johnson (DK), and support from MaxIV synchrotron (SE).
January 2023– The PhD work from Jette K. Mathiesen supervised by Kirsten M. Ø. Jensen, Uni. Copenhagen, DK, is now available in JACS. This work was also made in collaboration with the groups of Profs Matthias Arenz (CH), Methap Oezaslan (DE), Jan Rossmeisl (DK) and support from Argonne National Lab (USA).
September 2022– The PhD work from Vladislav Mints supervised by Prof Matthias Arenz, Uni. Bern, Switzerland, CH, is now available in ACS Catalysis. This work was also made in collaboration with the work of Profs Jan Rossmeisl (DK) and Kirsten M. Ø. Jensen (DK).
Team members (selection)
September 2025- Welcome (back) to Kristian for his MSc thesis.
May 2025- Welcome to Hilary visiting us for few months.
February 2025- Congrats to Armin who secured a MarieSkłodowska-Curie Fellowship.
February 2025- Julie, Frederik and Mathilde will start their Bachelor and Master thesis projects. Nanoparticles in the making.
September 2024- 6 Bachelor students joined the group for 7 weeks for their CHEMTECH-II projects. Working on gold nanoparticles. Welcome to Astrid, Leander, Julie, Frederik, Peter and Albert.
May 2024- Welcome to Aleksandra, new PhD in the group.
June 2024- Welcome to Armin, new Postdoc in the group.
Conferences - Where to meet us (selection)
23/04/2025– Sharing thoughts, experience and excitement about nanomaterials and nanotechnology at Aarhus University Research Festival. Come to our mini lecture 3:40-4:00 pm.
23-26/03/2025– Attenting the ISE 39th Topical Meeting, Natal, Brazil
30-31/05/2024– Attenting the DanScatt Annual meeting, Aarhus, Denmark
29-30/05/2024– Attending the Power-2-X symposium, Aarhus, Denmark
24/04/2024– Sharing thoughts, experience and excitement about nanomaterials and nanotechnology at Aarhus University Research Festival. Come and visit our stand from 2-6 pm and our talk at 5.40 pm.
25/01/2024– Visiting INL in Braga, Portugal
16-18/01/2024– Visiting CICA at Uni. A Coruna, Spain
02-03/11/2023– Meet us at the Danish Electrochemical Society (DEF) annual meeting, DTU, Denmark
12-13/06/2023– Attending the Power-2-X symposium, Aarhus, Denmark
26/04/2023– Sharing thoughts, experience and excitement about nanomaterials and nanotechnology at Aarhus University Research Festival. Come and visit our stand from 2-6 pm and our talk at 3.35 pm.
Funding
09/2025-Thank you to the Spanish government for a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship (MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and ESF+ , RYC2023-042920-I) and UDC for an InTalent grant.
01/2024– The section of Process and Materials Engineering received th suppport from the Siemens Fonden with 20.000 DKK to acquire equipment for electrochemistry. Thank you.
12/2023– The group received a DFF-Green grant of 3.167.482 DKK (Light-SCREEN, 3164-00128B) to work on the development of new nanomaterials. Thank you.
12/2022– The AUFF-NOVA is supporting us with 300.000 DKK. Thank you.
