Biography
Prof. Dr. Clara Viñas Teixidor graduated in Chemistry at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and later in Pharmacy at the Universitat de Barcelona. She worked as a pre-doctoral student at the Prof. Rudolph’s laboratory at The University of Michigan for a year. She is a Research Professor at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona that belongs to the Spanish Council for Scientific Research since 2006. Previously, she worked in an industry dedicated to recovery of industrial residual waters, and at public institution involved in food science analysis as well as environmental control.
Her fields of research involve synthesis and derivatisation of boron clusters to be applied in medicine and biosensors, among others.
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PAQ-Collabora Project
Development of New kit for Latent Fingerprint detection and Authentication "KIDAEM"
PAQ-Collabora Project
Development of New kit for Latent Fingerprint detection and Authentication "KIDAEM"
PROJECT PARTNERS
GEOGLOB-Lab Faculty of Sciences of Sfax
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LATIS-Lab National School of Engineers of Sousse
CEM-Lab National School of Engineers of Sfax
SOGIMEL Private Company
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PROJECT PARTNERS
GEOGLOB-Lab Faculty of Sciences of Sfax
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LATIS-Lab National School of Engineers of Sousse
CEM-Lab National School of Engineers of Sfax
SOGIMEL Private Company
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04/04/2019 Call for POSTDOC recrutment
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Plenary Speaker
Professor Franscenc Teixidor
Biography
Prof. Dr. Francesc Teixidor graduated in Chemistry at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He got his PhD degree with honors at the same university. He moved to the University of Michigan where he worked as a Post-Doctoral fellow under the supervision of Prof. Rudolph’s. This was the first time he contacted boron cluster chemistry that later became his most predicated research subject. He is Research Professor since 1999 at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona that belongs to the Spanish Council for Scientific Research. He is the head of the Department of molecular and supramolecular materials. He is author of over 400 publications in Peer reviewed journals and has an h-index of 52.
His research fields of interest are in the application of boron clusters in catalysis, energy, chemicals sensors as well as interpreting the electronic structure of boron clusters; also in using the particular spherical structures of boron clusters to get uncommon properties otherwise highly unimaginable with organic compounds. Furthermore Magnetic Nanoparticles and Quantum NPs in synergy with boron clusters are a recently included new topic in his scientific interests.
Metallacarboranes: a key component in electrochemical sensors for Biomedical applications.
F. Teixidor*
1 Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Inorganic Materials and Catalysis, C/ Til·lers s/n, Campus U.A.B., 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
Boron produces polyhedral clusters by covalent self-bonding that display many particular characteristics that do not find parallel in their organic hydrocarbon counterparts.
Not only boranes, but also the transition metal incorporating boron clusters are very relevant. Some of these examples are [3,3’-M(1,2-C2B9H11)2]- (M= Co, Fe) metallabisdicarbollides that have the ability to self-assemble by hydrogen and dihydrogen bonding producing micelles or monolayer vesicles [1], or the capacity to interact strongly with proteins [2] of DNA,[4] or to be incorporated in membranes[3] to interact with the electroactive target molecule to perform as electrochemical sensors for the detection of molecules or drugs of biological interest.
The aim of this contribution is to present these molecules and to show that despite their uncommon structure and that they are of inorganic origin, they can be very beneficial in medical applications, producing robust biomaterials and stable sensors that move away from the conventional immunosensors. Thanks to their intermolecular Cc-H···H-B these compounds can be alternative biosensors
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References
[1] a) P. Bauduin, S. Prevost, P. Farras, F. Teixidor, O. Diat, T. Zemb, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 50 (2011) 5298-5300, b) D. Brusselle, P. Bauduin, L. Girard, A. Zaulet, C. Vinas, F. Teixidor, I. Ly, O. Diat, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 52 (2013) 12114-12118.
[2]. I. Fuentes, J. Pujols, C. Vinas, S. Ventura, F. Teixidor, Chem. Eur. J. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201902796
[3]. a) A.I. Stoica, C. Vinas, F. Teixidor, Chem. Commun. 33 (2009), 4988-4990. b) A.I. Stoica, C. Vinas, F. Teixidor, Chem. Commun. (2008), 6492-6494
[4] T. García-Mendiola, V. Bayon-Pizarro, A. Zaulet, I. Fuentes, F. Pariente, F. Teixidor, C. Viñas, E. Lorenzo, Chem. Sci. 7 (2016) 5786-5797.
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