Video sobre biomorfos producido por el Departamento de Comunicacion del CSIC con imagenes y videos del laboratorio de Juanma García-Ruiz. Las imágenes son de epoca anterior a Prometheus pero son relevantes.
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Field trip to Oman
This has been the first field study of the Prometheus project (13-22nd February 2015). A one-week field work in the rocky desert of the Sultanate of Oman searching for alkaline water sources in remote parts. The trip was organized by my friend and colleague from the University of Bremen, Professor Wolfgang Bach. In this country of the Arabian Peninsula the rocks of the deep mantle of the planet emerge to the surface moved by forces…
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Public lecture at the 26th Festival d´Astronomie de Fleurance, in August 2016: “Le cristal et la rose: une rivalité de symétrie”.
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Vivo en Granada, la ciudad de luces y aguas en la que nació Federico García Lorca. Cada día recorro las mismas calles, bebo las mismas aguas y doy sombra a las mismas luces que iluminaron al poeta. Voy con frecuencia a la casa en que nació y a las casas en que vivió. Lo hago cuando acompaño a los amigos que me visitan, a los que también muestro en Víznar el barranco en el que…
Read MoreGan Zhang
I am a chemist from China. I joined the Prof. Juan Manuel García Ruiz’s group in 2010 when I started the master and PhD study in Crystallization and Crystallography, and received the PhD title in 2015. My research in the group towards the polymorphic and morphological control of the crystallization of calcium carbonate as well as the hydrate forms in alkaline silica-rich media, to explore the morphogenetic mechanism of silica biomorphs. My work is strongly…
Read MoreJulian Opel
University of Konstanz, started in 2015. Julian Opel is a German PhD student at the University of Konstanz (Germany) in the group of Prof. Helmut Cölfen. He got his M. Sc. in chemistry in 2015. In his Master thesis, he investigated new strategies to functionalize silica-biomorphs with various functional groups, organic molecules and inorganic nano particles to lern more about the inner structure of biomorphs and to turn these fascinating structures into a functional material….
Read MoreManolis Giampouras
University of Granada, started 2015. Manolis Giampouras is a Greek PhD student at the University of Granada (Spain). He got his BSc degree in Geology and Geo-environment at the University of Athens (Greece), where he elaborated on mineral texture analysis of a hydrothermal ore deposit (Rhodope, NE Greece). He holds an MSc degree from the University of Newcastle (UK) focused on applied geology, geochemistry and environmental sciences. For his MSc thesis, he specialized in biogeochemical processes…
Read MoreJeannette Manzi
We would like to congratulate Jeannette Manzi on the achievement of her PhD thesis entitled “Mapping pH in self-assembled inorganic structures by fluorescence microscopy” (supervised by Prof. Marco Montalti and Prof. Aldo Roda), which has been excellently defended on the 9th of May 2018 at department of Industrial Chemistry “Toso Montanari” of Bologna. Her outstanding work has received the marks of 1) excellent for the originality and the arguments treated; and 2) really good for…
Read MoreKevin Hagmann
University of Granada, started 2017. Kevin Hagmann is a German PhD student at the CSIC-University of Granada. He holds a Bachelor and Masters degree in Chemistry which he obtained at the University of Regensburg, Germany. In his Bachelor research he focused on reaction pathways of pentaphosphaferrocences in organometallic chemistry as well as the functionalization of nanoparticles for organic synthesis. For his Masters degree he specialized in physical, inorganic and analytical chemistry. In his Master thesis…
Read MoreLocal pH oscillations witness autocatalytic self-organization of biomorphic nanostructures
M. Montalti, G. Zhang, D. Genovese, J. Morales, M. Kellermeier & J.M. García-Ruiz, Nat Commun. 2017 Feb 16;8:14427. Download paper. Bottom-up self-assembly of simple molecular compounds is a prime pathway to complex materials with interesting structures and functions. Coupled reaction systems are known to spontaneously produce highly ordered patterns, so far observed in soft matter. Here we show that similar phenomena can occur during silica-carbonate crystallization, the emerging order being preserved. The resulting materials, called…
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