Jan 2023
Kasper Moth-Poulsen joins the department of Chemical Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Barcelona (UPC) to setup a chemical energy laboratory.
Fall 2022
Welcome to Lorette, Lukas, Paulius, Pedro, Nicolo and Pankaj at the ICMAB-CSIC institute in Barcelona.
Dec 2021
Kasper becomes an elected member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences.
May 2021
Kasper becomes Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
May 2021
A warm welcome to new PhD students Monika Shamsabadi and Lidiya Muhammad, and Researcher Hannes Schomaker!
March 2021
Kasper recieved the Göran Gustafsson Award from the Swedish Royal Academy of Science.
Dec 2020
Congratulations to Alicja for defending her PhD thesis.
Title: “Synthesis of Nanoparticles and Organometallic Complexes for Gas Sensing” Link
Dec 2020
Congratulations to Xin Wen for defending her PhD thesis.
Title: “Control Synthesis and Microstructure Studies of Metal Nanoparticles” Link
Dec 2020
Kasper got Nordblad-Ekstrand medal from the Swedish Chemistry Society (SSF). You can read the motivation here (in Swedish)
Dec 2020
Kasper Moth-Poulsen's project "PHOTOTHERM" (Photo Thermal Management Materials) has been granted to European Research Council Consolidator Grants 2020
Nov 2020
Congratulations to Anna Pekkari for defending her PhD thesis.
Title: “Colloidal synthesis of metal nanoparticles: Mechanistic studies and development of flow synthesis routes” Link
Nov 2020: Kasper has been apointed associated editor of Journal Materials Chemistry C and Materials Advances
Nov 2020: Warm welcome to new postdoc Helen Hölzel.
Oct 2020 We have receive funding from FET-PROACT program, EU-Horizon 2020: "Breakthrough zero-emissions energy generation for full decarbonization" Link
Aug 2020 Spin-off from Kasper's groups were launched in Q3-Q4 2020: Solartes AB and NanoScientifica Scandinavia AB.
Dec 2019
Congratulations to Elham for defending her PhD thesis.
Title: “Synthesis of Novel Fluorine-Free Salts for Battery Electrolytes”
Nov 2019
Warm goodbye to Johnas and Behabitu who has been part of the group since 2013.
Nov 2019
Congratulations to Xin Wen (PhD student) for defending her licentiate thesis.
Title: “Synthesis and Microstructure Studies of Metal Nanoparticles Synthesized with a Mixture of Cationic and Anionic Surfactants”
Sept 2019
Congratulations to Anna Pekkari (PhD student) for the supplementary cover on ACS Applied Applied Materials and Interface. (Link of the cover)
Description: A single-phase, continuous-flow synthesis leads to Pd nanocubes and PdPt core-shell nanoparticles. The catalytic function is demonstrated in a NO2 reduction reaction experiment. (Link of the paper)
July 2019
The article "Molecular solar thermal energy storage in photoswitch oligomers increases energy densities and storage times" is in TOP 50 Nature Communications chemistry and materials science articles published in 2018. Congratulations!!