Prof. Josep Puigmartí-Luis is the head of the ChemInFlow group located at the University of Barcelona and he is also affiliated with Institut de Química Teòrica i Computacional (IQTC) that was honored with the "Maria de Maeztu" Unit of Excellence, in 2021. He completed his PhD in supramolecular chemistry at the Institut de Ciències dels Materials de Barcelona (2008), and right after, he received a competitive postdoctoral ETH fellowship. In 2012, he was nominated as a Ramón y Cajal researcher, but after two years, he decided to move back to Switzerland where in 2015 was awarded an ERC Starting Grant, a Chair of Excellence (France) in 2018, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Valencia in 2019. In 2021, Prof. Puigmartí-Luis received the emergent consolidated research group recognition from the Catalan research system, earned a favorable Accreditation as Full Professor from AQU Catalunya in 2023, and the same year he was also honored with the Rising Star Award from IEEE 3M-NANO.
Research interests
Self-assembly can be described as a dynamic process present in nature that has long been used for the evolution of living organisms, but is still scarcely understood by modern science. The main reason being that self-assembly is generally studied under equilibrium conditions. Despite the remarkable progress made in materials engineering, the quest for a technology to study and kinetically control self-assembled processes is still incomplete. Like in nature, only through kinetic controlled conditions we can achieve materials with a rationalized function and efficiency; a result that will open new horizons in nanotechnology. Therefore, the research activities of my group are centered on accomplishing an extraordinary kinetic control over self-assembly by controlling the fluid flow phenomena of reagents at the micro and nanoscale.
Selected publications
- Llauradó-Capdevila G, Veciana A, et al. 2024, 'Tailored design of a water-based nanoreactor technology for producing processable sub-40 nm 3D COF nanoparticles at atmospheric conditions', Adv Mater, Volume36, Issue14, 2306345.
- Sevim S, Sanchis-Gual R, Franco C, et al. 2024, 'Electrostatic Catalysis of a Click Reaction in a Microfluidic Cell', Nat. Commun, 15, 1, 790.
- Mattera M, Tuan Ngo A, Pedro Valeb J, Franco C, Sevim S, Guix M, Matheu R, Sotto T, Pané S, Puigmartí JL 2024, 'Large-scale and rapid processing of 3D COFs via 3D controlled reaction-diffusion zones', Chem. Mater. 36, 2, 959–967.
- Ye H, Franco C, Aboouf M A, Thiersch M, Sevim S, Llacer-Wintle J, Veciana A, Llauradó-Capdevila G, Wang K, Chen X Z, Tang Q, Matheu R, Wendel-Garcia PD, Sánchez-Murcia P A, Nelson B J, Luo C, Puigmartí Luis J & Pané S 2024, 'Insights into the Biological Activity and Bio-Interaction Properties of Nanoscale Imine-Based 2D and 3D Covalent Organic Frameworks', Adv. Sci., 11 - 44 - 2407391
Selected research activities
18 invited oral presentations during 2024
3 front covers
Member of 4 PhD evaluation committees
PI Management of a recently accepted HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDEROPEN-01, SONOCRAFT Project
PI Management of a HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN project accepted in 2021, EVA Project
Management of a H2020 FET Proactive, ANGIE project
3 PhD students of the group graduated: 1. Maria Aurora Guarducci (20/12/2024) / 2. Ramón Santiago Herrara Restrepo (12/12/2024) / 3. João Pedro Vale (08/03/2024).
Supervised 3 visiting undergraduate students
Supervised 1 TFM student and 2 TFG undergraduate students