Advanced Materials

Cut through a sheet of Bacterial Cellulose and you find an entire hidden world — a sprawling fibrous metropolis, with its builders still roaming the streets. Nature's own nanofactory, caught mid-construction.

Biopharmaceutical particulate material generated by processing with compressed CO2, formulated as a platform for the encapsulation, transport and release of drugs, which resembles an artificial bone in the form of a microparticle.

Multinucleated pancreatic cells on a glass slide; intermediate filaments stained with vimentin (blue), cell nuclei stained with Hoechst (cyan).

A microscope slide with a sample of an organic material used in solar cells with a spectroscopic image of the sample in the background.

When studying our particle on a mirror system in the Raman set-up, we came across this beautiful volcano resulting from the agglomeration of some nanoparticles.

An organic functional material that is fluorescent being filtered while illuminated with UV light.

A red dye being purified as a solid where it shows a beautiful morphology!

Slice of a new flexible material for chemical processing.

Polymeric fibers composed of drug-loaded nanoparticles serve as a platform for formulating solid dosage forms. The drug used presents a pharmaceutical challenge due to its low water solubility; therefore, the use of these fibers helps increase the drug's solubility and bioavailability in the body.

Say goodbye to the dreaded needle — this Bacterial Cellulose Microneedle is here to make injections and blood tests a thing of the past. Grown, not manufactured, this tiny forest of spikes is your skin's new best friend ;)

Thin films of a polymer before (transparent) and after (opaque) annealing.

Chemical reactor at MATGAS, dedicated to create new materials.