Happy to share our new paper in SMALL! 🎉
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Laser-assisted fabrication of rGO/Bi₂O₃ nanocomposites for sensitive heavy metal detection 💧⚡
Congrats to Andy, Ana & all co-authors! 👏
🇪🇸🇦🇱🇨🇿 SUSNANO collaboration
@merkocigroup.bsky.social
@icn2.bsky.social #CATRIN
✨ Molt feliç de compartir el meu discurs en català amb motiu de la meva entrada com a membre de l’ @iec.cat . Un honor i també un compromís amb la ciència, la llengua i la cultura. Gràcies a tothom qui m’ha acompanyat! 🙏
🎥 youtu.be/uEV65KjjxQg
#Ciència @merkocigroup.bsky.social @icn2.bsky.social
This Saturday in #Zurich I gave a talk on #nanobiosensors for #diagnostics at the 7th Symposium of the Albanian Medical Doctors Society in Switzerland. Shared our work from @merkocigroup.bsky.social @icn2.bsky.social (Barcelona) and collaboration opportunities with #NANOBALKAN Centre.
Thank you @icn2.bsky.social !
🗣️ #ICN2Seminars
Join us for this 𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 by Prof. Damion Corrigan (@unistrathclyde.bsky.social)
🔷 Hosts: ICREA Prof. @arbenmerkoci.bsky.social & Dr Andrew Piper
📆 23/02/2026
⏰ 10 AM
📍 ICMAB Campus UAB (Spain)
📝 Register here to attend! 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/fkmbdxwxfe
🔃 Sharing is appreciated!
✨ NANOBALKAN 2026 Workshop at University of Tetova 🇲🇰
Celebrating 2025 achievements, Ignite Projects & new regional collaborations 🌍🔬
Thanks for the warm welcome & the portrait of Mother Teresa — a reminder that science, like service, connects humanity 🤝✨
@merkocigroup.bsky.social
@icn2.bsky.social
🎉 Celebrating 25 years of #ICREA 🎉
Honoured to be one of 300 ICREA Professors in Catalonia.
Freedom to research, strong support, and inspiring collaboration #ecosystem #ExcellentScience.
#ICREA25 #Science #Collaboration
@bist.eu
@icercano.bsky.social
@icn2.bsky.social
@merkocigroup.bsky.social
👏 Congrats to Zaheer & co-authors! @merkocigroup.bsky.social @icn2.bsky.social
🚀 New paper in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces!
We introduce WAST, a wax-assisted stamp-transfer method for flexible, additive-free MXene electrochemical transducers with reproducible, commercial-level performance.
🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
#MXene #ElectrochemicalSensors
📢 WE'RE HIRING❗
🤔 Looking for your next career move?
➡️ 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 (2 vacancies)
🤝 For our @merkocigroup.bsky.social, led by ICRE Prof. @arbenmerkoci.bsky.social
🎯 More details, deadline & application here! 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/bcadfhmmxj
🔃 Sharing is appreciated!
#ResearchJobs
At #CERN with Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 Prof. Michel Mayor 🏅who discovered exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star — a breakthrough that reshaped our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos 🌍💫
An inspiring day where science, curiosity, and wonder collide 🚀🔬
🇦🇱 Krenar që mora pjesë sot në Berlin në takimin hapës të Komitetit të Politikave Shkencore (SC) të #ALLEA -s, si anëtar i propozuar nga #AkademiaShkencave.
🇬🇧 Proud to join today’s ALLEA Science Policy SC kickoff in Berlin, nominated by the #AlbanianAcademySciences
At the beginning of this month, I had the honour of joining colleagues from around the world at the 200th anniversary of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, celebrated in partnership with UNESCO. Proud to represent the Academy of Sciences of Albania. 🔬✨
Read more at: mta.hu/english/mta-...
The NanoBioMed Conference will present the latest advances in #Nanobiotechnology & #Nanomedicine.
📍 Barcelona
📅 2-4 Dec. 2025
🔜 Abstract Submission: 14th Nov.
🤝 Phantoms Foundation, BOKU Vienna, ICN2 Prof. @arbenmerkoci.bsky.social @merkocigroup.bsky.social
ℹ️ https://f.mtr.cool/ckpgxahxwo
Today I had the pleasure of giving a seminar at #KeioUniversity on our #nanobiosensor research @ICN2nano !
Great to exchange ideas with researchers & students from Keio and other Tokyo universities.
Halfway through my stay in Japan—more to come! 🇯🇵🔬
#Nanotech #ResearchStay #Science
🔵 Molt content d’haver estat elegit membre de l’IEC. Gràcies a l’IEC, ICREA, ICN2 i tots els col·laboradors que m’han acompanyat en aquest camí.
🔵 Honored to join IEC — grateful to all who supported me: ICREA, ICN2 & global collaborators.
More: icn2.cat/en/news/5478...
Great start to the day at Keio University with a surprise from Dr. Otake — prints of our centers' logos (@icn2nano & @KeioGlobal )! A productive brainstorming on future nanotech & biosensor collaborations. Thanks Atsushi, for the thoughtful gift & great talks! 🇯🇵🇪🇸 #Nanotech #ICN2
Great discussions today in Prishtina 🇽🇰 with Univ. of Prishtina & Kosova Academy of Sciences (Technical Section) on the future of science & education. Projects like #NANOBALKAN, #SUSNANO #NANOKOS show the power of regional & EU collaboration. Thanks Prof. Dr. Fetah Podvorica!
#ScienceForDevelopment
Honored to receive this recognition!
Grateful to my past & present group members—this is a team achievement powered by collaboration, freedom in research & international exchange.
Thanks to our institutions for the great support! 🙌
#Science #Research #Teamwork
📰 NEW UPDATE
🔬 Represented by @merkocigroup.bsky.social, ICN2 was well represented at the 𝟑𝟓𝐭𝐡 Anniversary World Congress on #Biosensors. ICREA Prof. @arbenmerkoci.bsky.social chaired it & group members were also involved in the organisation, talks & posters.
ℹ️ f.mtr.cool/vpufumalzo
#2DMaterials
At #EUIndTech2025 in Kraków 🇵🇱—excited to speak on sustainable nanomaterial-based sensors & bridging EU–Western Balkans via #SUSNANO & #NANOBALKAN.
A stronger, united, collaborative EU in science! 🇪🇺
🔗 indtech2025.eu/en/konferenc...
#ICN2 #HorizonEU
📰 NEW UPDATE❗
🔬 ICN2 was well represented by @merkocigroup.bsky.social at the 𝟑𝟓𝐭𝐡 Anniversary World Congress on #Biosensors. ICREA Prof. @arbenmerkoci.bsky.social chaired it & group members were also involved in the organisation, talks & presenting posters.
ℹ️👉 f.mtr.cool/vpufumalzo
#2DMaterials
Excited to launch a collab with @WaterlooWIN, 🇨🇦's largest nanotech institute & supporter of the #UNSDGs!
One winning project: MELANOMA-TRACKER 🧬—a wearable microneedle patch for non-invasive melanoma screening.
@merkocigroup.bsky.social
👏 Kudos to @ICN2nano & WIN teams!
#Nanotech #HealthTech
Do not miss on June 10th the talk of Dr. Daniel Quesada, from @icn2.bsky.social and @arbenmerkoci.bsky.social's group, about #QuantumDots and #Biosensing within the cicle "Quàntica a #Sabadell".
More details and free inscription at: fbc.cat/events/2025/...
Promoted by "Fundació Bosch i Cardellach"
Willing to start a #PhD career?
Check the possibilities at @icn2.bsky.social and apply to Prof. @arbenmerkoci.bsky.social group!
#Joboffer here: jobs.icn2.cat/job-openings...
#ICN2 #PhDlife #Biosensors #Nanomaterials
Honored to give an invited talk today at #EUMRS in Strasbourg! Shared our work on graphene sensors (Graphene Flagship & #2DBioPad) for early Alzheimer's detection. Also proud of our spinoff @GraphenicaLab working on graphene printing. Great science, friends & future collabs!
Great to meet with the Biosensors and Bioelectronics Editorial Board today in Lisbon during the 35th World Congress on Biosensors!
Proud to support this leading journal driving innovation in biosensors & bioelectronics.
Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/bios...
#Biosensors2025
Here in Lisbon for #Biosensors2025, the 35th Anniversary World Congress on Biosensors—the most important global event in the field!
Since 1990 in Singapore, it has traveled the world.
Excited to welcome 1200+ participants starting tomorrow!
#Biosensors2025 #Lisbon #Portugal #ElsevierEvents
📣 NEW UPDATE❗
🤔 More affordable & easy-to-use portable #DiagnosticTools?
📝 ICREA Prof. @arbenmerkoci.bsky.social & Dr Ruslan Alvarez (@merkocigroup.bsky.social) analysed how #2DMaterials are shaping sensing technologies. Part of the #EU Graphene Flagship.
ℹ️👉 f.mtr.cool/jrdgkafbyu
#Biosensors
Excited to speak at next week’s Workshop: Technology-Oriented Research Infrastructures – Opportunities for the Western Balkans in Podgorica, Montenegro 🇲🇪! I’ll present NANOBALKAN & how tech RIs can boost innovation in the WB.
🔗 bit.ly/4jCrnfV
#NANOBALKAN #Innovation