Raquel Palacios

Synthesis of Ordered Polymer Micro and Nanostructures Via Porous Templates

The deposition of specific materials into ordered pores arranged in a regular lattice allows the fabrication of ordered fiber arrays. Polymer micro- and nanofibers using macroporous silicon and nanoporous alumina templates were fabricated employing a vacuum infiltration method for Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) structures or a melt-assisted template wetting into the pores for Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) structures. We have studied how the aspect ratio of the micro- and nanopores and the kind of polymer influence the structures fabrication.

Invited) Effects of the Nanostructure and Fabrication Process on the Photoluminescence Properties of PFO Nanopillar Arrays

Lluis F. Marsal, Raquel Palacios, Pilar Formentin, Abel Santos, Josep Ferre-Borrull and Josep Pallares

Geonomic Instability in Rhizobium: Friend or Foe?

For over a century, Rhizobium species have been studied due to their ability to establish nitrogen-fixing symbioses with leguminous plants. During the past decade, intensive biochemical and molecular genetics studies have paved the way for an intimate understanding of the nodulation and nitrogen fixation processes (1,2).