Corina joined the ICB on August 12th. Find out about her research activities and interests here.

Marta Maria Alves Pereira PhD candidate Ms Marta Maria Alves Pereira has been awarded a scholarship from the CAPES Foundation, an agency under the Ministry of Education of Brazil, to spend one month at the Group of Biointerfaces led by Prof. Dr. Oya Tagit. Marta will develop and characterize…

SCS Chemistry Travel Award Congratulations to Ajmal Roshan on receiving the Chemistry Travel Award 2024 from SCNAT and the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) to attend the 45th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC) at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA. At the conference, he delivered an insightful talk on…

Impression of the Gymnasium Laufental-Thierstein visiting the nanoLab.On May 16th 2024, a class from the Regionales Gymnasium Laufental-Thierstein visited us in the nanoLab. After a short introduction about the nanoLab, the students were allowed to actively experience the world of nanometers and produce red gold nanoparticles in the laboratory, observe…

Renzo Raso attended the Itechstyle Summit 2024 in Porto (Portugal) where he was invited to speak in the field of performance materials.The conference is organized by CITEVE and is held annually having more than 500 attendees and over 50 speaksers.CITEVE – Tecnologia Têxtil | We started the afternoon with…

Kavya Pramod We are happy to welcome Kavya Pramod in our research group at FHNW HLS. Kavya started on May 15th in our lab and will focusDuring the next months on the synthesis and modification of highly repellent materials for surface coatings. The efforts to find alternative solutions toCurrently…

Since October 2023 Ms Venuti investigates oxidation processes of biobased monomers in the frame of her master thesis. She joined us from the University of Bologna. For the FHNW Newsletter she was interviewed on her experience at HLS.Click here to read the full article on our…

Hair and steroids in DBS
As part of the SNSF-funded project "Understanding the resilience pathways of adolescent students with experience of physical family violence: The interplay of individual, family and school class risk and protective factors", we developed a liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method to detect eight different steroids in hair samples.

Our findings of the SiNP Food project, a Argovia Project funded by the Swiss Nanoscience Institute are now published in the open access Journal ACS Omega with the title “High-Throughput Silica Nanoparticle Detection for Quality Control of Complex Early Life Nutrition Food Matrices” (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.3c09459)Publication ACS Omega…