Video article “Epitaxial Nanostructured α-Quartz Films on Silicon: From the Material to New Devices”

We are very happy to share our latest video article describing how soft chemistry assists nanostructured On-chip piezoelectric quartz devices. “This work presents a detailed protocol for the microfabrication of nanostructured α-quartz cantilever on a Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) technology substrate starting from the epitaxial growth of quartz film with the dip coating method and then nanostructuration […]

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Publications ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces!

Publications ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces! Nano imprint process was transferred onto borosilicate substrates which allowed the first high resolution mapping of the organization and dynamics of cell membranes. This latest research work is the result of a collaboration between the IES-CNRS (Adrien Carretero, David Sanchez and Raissa Rathar) and IRIM, team: ” Biologie Quantitative […]

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Great news!! Our paper “Tailoring the crystal growth of quartz on silicon for patterning epitaxial piezoelectric films” selected for the themed collection: Nanoscale Advances Most Popular Articles so far!!

Very proud of our paper "Tailoring the crystal growth of quartz on silicon for patterning epitaxial piezoelectric films" selected now for the themed collection: Nanoscale Advances Most Popular Articles so far!!!👍https://t.co/KfYaKgv2xw — NanoChemLab (@ChemNano) January 27, 2020

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Sol-Gel offers a compatible process with top-down lithographic techniques providing a versatile and cost-efficient approach for making piezoelectric epitaxial quartz nanostructures on chip” New manuscript in ACS AMI: http://dlvr.it/RMzfs0

Published in @ACS_AMI "Sol-Gel offers a compatible process with top-down lithographic techniques providing a versatile and cost-efficient approach for making piezoelectric epitaxial quartz nanostructures on chip" https://t.co/hNxWSU6eYN@NNgroupICMAB@icmabCSIC@IESMontpellier pic.twitter.com/KovSgIkUpX — NanoChemLab (@ChemNano) January 14, 2020

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Congratulations Qianzhe Zhang! New Doctor under the supervision of Adrien Carretero-Genevrier and Marti Gich. We wish you all the best for the near future!!

🔊Today we have the #PhDThesisDefense by Qianzhe Zhang! "Microstructural Control of Epitaxial α-Quartz Films" He is from the @NNgroupICMAB and the thesis has been co-supervised by @MartiGich and Adrián Carretero from @ChemNano @IESMontpellier Good luck!➡️https://t.co/pjFvXDqFSO pic.twitter.com/zI5GlRorWc — ICMAB-CSIC (@icmabCSIC) October 4, 2019

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Benchtop equipment-based method to large-scale nanostructuration of high-performance glass by nanolithography and soft-chemistry for super-resolution imaging of adherent cells! amazing interdisciplinar job! @LauraPicas @IRIM_life @ChemNano @IESMontpellier

Want to know how to manipulate the nanoscale topography of cellular membranes using the simplicity of soft-chemistry? Check our recent work: https://t.co/QVQBf8rBTW It was great to team up with amazing collaborators and very talented students! @ChemNano @IRIM_life pic.twitter.com/xMZUKPkMqB — Laura Picas (@LauraPicas) September 13, 2019

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The detailed crystal growth of quartz thin films on silicon is now published in ⁦⁦Nanoscale Advances_rsc ⁩ Great team work!!

New joint publication between @NNgroupICMAB at @icmabCSIC and @ChemNano, an output from the co-supervised PhD of Qianzhe Zhang: "Tailoring the crystal growth of quartz on silicon for patterning epitaxial piezoelectric films" in Nanoscale Advances https://t.co/1XpcWDY90p — Martí Gich Garcia (@MartiGich) August 29, 2019

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