Emelin awarded at IUPAC|CHAINS2023

Emelin awarded at IUPAC|CHAINS2023

Our PhD student Emelin Luna Barrios got the Best Poster Award in the category of sustainability at the recent IUPAC|CHAINS2023 conference. Congratulations!

Haritz Sardon joins Chemical Science’s Advisory Board

Haritz Sardon joins Chemical Science’s Advisory Board

Chemical Science is the flagship journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, whose wide-ranging scope covers the full breadth of the chemical sciences. The research published in this journal contains the sorts of novel ideas, challenging questions and progressive thinking that bring undiscovered...

Álvaro Gómez successfully defended his PhD thesis

Álvaro Gómez successfully defended his PhD thesis

The PhD entitled Sustainable Non-Isocyanate Polyurethane-Based Adhesives for Automotive Industry was carried out under the supervision of POLYMAT researcher Dr. Haritz Sardon and Dr. Iñigo Calvo, the R&D Director at Oribay Group. Well done, Álvaro!

New PhD in the group: Fermin Elizalde Irazoki

New PhD in the group: Fermin Elizalde Irazoki

Fermin Elizalde successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Polyurethane Materials: Insights on Dynamic Properties and Self-Healing Applications", under the supervision of Haritz Sardon and Robert Aguirresarobe. Congratulations!

Elena Gabirondo successfully defended her PhD thesis

Elena Gabirondo successfully defended her PhD thesis

Group member Elena Gabirondo has successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled "New trends in the synthesis of polyesters: from catalyst design to chemical recycling", supervised by Prof. Haritz Sardon and Prof. Agustin Etxeberria. Well cone, Elena!

Polymer Chemistry selects a group publication as recent HOT article

Polymer Chemistry selects a group publication as recent HOT article

A publication led by our group member Xabier Lopez de Pariza on photoacid generators has been selected by Polymer Chemistry as recent HOT article: " Novel imino- and aryl-sulfonate based photoacid generators for the cationic ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone". Congratulations, good...

2021 ACS Young Investigator Award goes to Haritz Sardon

2021 ACS Young Investigator Award goes to Haritz Sardon

Dr. Haritz Sardon has been awarded with the ‘2021 ACS Macro Letters/Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator’ Award. The ACS journals ACS Macro Letters, Biomacromolecules, and Macromolecules in partnership with the Division of Polymer Chemistry have selected Professors Bradley D. Olsen...

Interview to Haritz Sardon in Euskadi Irratia

Interview to Haritz Sardon in Euskadi Irratia

Yesterday Haritz Sardon was interviewed in the Basque radio station Euskadi Irratia on the occasion of the recently awarded Young Researcher Award - Group Leader category, granted by the Spanish Royar Society of Chemistry (RSEQ). Listen to the full interview (in Basque) here.

NATURE is looking for PhD candidates

NATURE is looking for PhD candidates

Our spin-off company POLYKEY is very proud to announce the start of the NATURE project, an ambitious initiative towards a more circular plastic economy. We are currently recruiting four highly motivated PhD candidates. The offered positions are available to start August-September 2021 with a...

Haritz Sardon has been awarded a Leonardo Grant by the BBVA Foundation

Haritz Sardon has been awarded a Leonardo Grant by the BBVA Foundation

Haritz Sardon has been awarded a Leonardo Grant by the BBVA Foundation to research on 'Smart plastic recycling: Using waste to produce new materials'. He has been selected together with other 5 researchers in the field of Basic Research, in the Chemistry subarea. A total of 59 awardees have...