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F. Puntes, Víctor
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ICREA Research Professor at ICN (Institut Català de Nanotecnologia). Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
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Born in Barcelona, 1970, Prof. Víctor Franco Puntes studied chemical engineering at the Louis Pasteur University (Strasbourg, France) and chemistry at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain), graduating in 1994. He obtained his PhD in Physics at the University of Barcelona (1998), working on Giant Magnetoresistance in granular alloys. Then he spent more than 3 years in Berkeley (California, USA) as a postdoc, first in the group of Prof. Krishnan Kannan (National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory) and then in the group of Prof. Paul Alivisatos (College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley). After obtaining a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship and moving to the Physics Department at the University of Barcelona in 2003, he obtained in 2005 an ICREA Professorship at the Catalan Institut of Nanotechnology (ICN), to create the Inorganic Nanoparticles Group - which he leads today.
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Research Interests
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Led by Prof. Víctor Puntes, the Inorganic Nanoparticles Group works on the synthesis, characterisation and applications of engineered inorganic nanoparticles (NPs). By controlling the size, structure and shape of the inorganic core, and manipulating the linking of organic molecules to the nanoparticle surface, the group aims to design nanoparticles that interact with a variety of systems (biological, medical, materials, etc.). This allows for the deliberate modification of these systems, or the use of NPs for witnessing and reporting things.
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KeyWords
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Nanotechnology, Nanoparticles, Synthesis, Conjugation, Nanotoxicology, Nanobiotechnology, Environmental remediation, Magnetic nanostructures, Nanoimmunology
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