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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…

Dr. med. vet. Julia Lechmann Together with Prof. Stefan Gaugler, Dr. med. vet. Julia Lechmann will be working on dried blood spot (DBS) analysis in veterinary medicine at the FHNW. The aim of their project is to transfer the detection of various animal pathogens from liquid blood to DBS…

Antonina Lina Matina – B.Sc. Antonina completed her bachelor’s degree in chemistry at the  University of Palermo. She joined the Molecular Nanotechnology group in October 2023 to pursue her master’s thesis at FHNW strengthening her knowledge in supramolecular enzyme engineering.

Oriol Villa Lavela – B.Sc. Oriol completed his bachelor’s degree in chemistry at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He joined the Molecular Nanotechnology group in September 2023 to pursue his master’s at FHNW while working part-time as a research assistant enriching his knowledge in organic and…

Best Talk Award Amir Nazemi received the Best Talk Award for presenting his research work on “enzyme stabilization via nano-environment engineering in organosilica” during the International Nanoscience Conference INASCON 2023 held in Basel, Switzerland. Congratulations Amir!…

Researcher Travel Award Ajmal Roshan received the RSC Researcher Development and Travel Grant for attending the 17th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry in Reykavík, Iceland. Congratulations Ajmal!…