INMA Impulso: Mónica Burriel (from LMGP, France) and Mónica Marro (from ICFO, Barcelona)
The new edition of the INMA Impulso cycle, corresponding to the 2025-2026 academic year, will begin on Wednesday, December 10, at the San Francisco Campus, specifically in the Sala de Grados of the Faculty of Sciences, at 12:00 p.m.
Date: December 10, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM
Venue: Salón de Grados, Faculty of Sciences Campus San Francisco
The Aragon Nanoscience and Materials of Aragon Institute (INMA) is pleased to announce two upcoming seminars focusing on advances in spectroscopy and nano-architectured materials:
1. “Exploiting Raman spectroscopy for biomedical applications”
Speaker: Dr Mónica Marro (The Institute of Photonic Sciences, ICFO, Barcelona)
Abstract: Raman spectroscopy (RS) has emerged as a promising non-invasive diagnosis technology. In this talk, Dr Marro will present a few examples of work showing how RS combined with advanced multivariate methods, SERS, and mechanobiology can be exploited in the field of biomedicine. These methods allow researchers to unravel new molecular information and achieve a more accurate, rapid, non-invasive and label-free diagnosis. Specifically, results will be shown on the monitorisation of the molecular content in living cells and tissues undergoing neuroinflammation or cancer by hyperspectral imaging. Dr Marro will also present how RS could be used in mechanobiology to study non-invasively and in a label-free approach the molecular progression of cells under a mechanical stress.
2. “Nano-architectured thin film electrodes: from design and advanced characterisation to applications in solid oxide cells”
Speaker: Prof Mónica Burriel (Lab. des Matériaux et du Génie Physique, LMGP, France) (Note: Prof Burriel will be joining INMA in January 2026)
Abstract: Ionic transport is central to the performance of devices such as solid oxide fuel cells, electrolysers, oxygen separation membranes, and memristive systems. Understanding, controlling, and measuring how strain, nanostructure, and morphology influence ionic and mixed ionic–electronic conducting oxides is essential for advancing these technologies. In this seminar, Prof Burriel will show how Metalorganic Chemical Vapour Deposition enables precise control of thin-film growth, allowing the functional properties to be tailored for their targeted use as oxygen electrodes for solid oxide cells. She will also present new spatial- and time-resolved characterisation approaches to probe ionic transport under operational conditions, highlighting the newly developed in situ isotopic exchange Raman spectroscopy (IERS) technique.
