On 2 April, the Minister of Education, Culture and Sport of Castilla-La Mancha, Amador Pastor Noheda, together with the Director General of Universities, Research and Innovation, José Antonio Castro, and the Managing Director of the Research and Innovation Agency, Charo Serrano, visited the scientific facilities of the Institute of Nanoscience, Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials (INAMOL) and the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Biochemistry of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), in Toledo.
In these facilities, where research has been carried out for more than two decades in Femtoscience using femtosecond spectroscopic techniques and ultrafast microscopy, the European ERC StG project “Hyperfluorescent guest@TADF-MOF Materials for the 5th Generation of OLEDs – HyperFMOF“, will be carried out, led by the professor of the University of Castilla-La Mancha and head of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Biochemistry of Toledo. Mario Gutiérrez Tovar.
During the visit, the professor presented the objectives and scope of the project to the authorities, since in September 2024, Mario Gutiérrez obtained 1,614,000 euros in the ERC Starting Grants call, the most competitive and most excellent program in the European Union for top-level researchers.
The grant, granted by the European Research Council (ERC) within the Horizon Europe programme, will allow the professor and his group to develop new hyperfluorescent materials based on metal-organic networks or MOFs, as they are commonly known by their acronym in English (Metal-Organic Frameworks).
Subsequently, together with the director and professor of the Femtoledo group Abderrazzak Douhal Alaui, and Professor Boiko Cohen, member of the group, they guided the representatives of the regional government on a tour of the research laboratories of the Femtoscience and Microscopy group, where part of their research is framed within the Complementary Plan for Biotechnology Applied to Health of Castilla-La Mancha.
The institutional visit highlights the regional government’s interest in strengthening the ties between science and society.
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