NanoPoly&Gels Group

Nanostructured Polymers and Gels Group located at the Polymer Science and Technology Institute of the Spanish Research Council (ICTP-CSIC).

[IMDEA Materials @ImdeaMaterials]

@WAB2024 @IBECBarcelona @La_UPM @ictp_promocion @Vicomtech 3/...This morning's session at @WAB2024 concluded with three fascinating talks from Alejandro Hernández (@alexein1997) from @ictp_promocion, Andrés Díaz Lantada from @La_UPM and Maialen Zelaia from @Vicomtech.

[ICTP-CSIC @ictp_promocion]

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¿Estás buscando un #master , te interesan los #plasticos #polímeros #materiales?

La @UIMP junto al @ictp_promocion @CSIC ofertan el

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[NanoPoly&Gels Group @NanoPolyGels]

Check out the cover page of our work published in @Biomac_ACS! Great work in collaboration with @AJ_Muller_Group @anabelizazu @MarioIPenas @ACS4Authors #MyACSCover

[NanoPoly&Gels Group @NanoPolyGels]

Submission deadline only until THIS Friday!!!

[Miryam CG @MCriadoGonzalez]

📢Our collaborative work @NanoPolyGels @FouziaBT @BarbaultFlorent @AJ_Muller_Group is finally out! From atomic self-assembly to nanoscale organizations of self-healing and thermo-responsive gels @nanoscale_rsc
https://t.co/D4uByGqO8T

[NanoPoly&Gels Group @NanoPolyGels]

@MCriadoGonzalez @FouziaBT @BarbaultFlorent @AJ_Muller_Group @nanoscale_rsc Thrilled to be part of this beautiful work led by @MCriadoGonzalez !! Congrats to all the authors!!

[ACS Macro Journals @MacroJrnls_ACS]

🎉Antonio Capezza🎉 #Biomacromolecules
"One of my research goals is to produce new sustainable materials using circular economy principles and existing technology to decrease the plastic waste and environmental footprint of disposable items ..."

More ➡ https://t.co/GCH7rYplOa

[NanoPoly&Gels Group @NanoPolyGels]

@AJ_Muller_Group Enhorabuena Mario!!!

[Kimika Fakultatea UPV/EHU @ehu_kimika]

TESIAREN DEFENTSA/DEFENSA DE TESIS:
🧑‍🎓Mario Peñas Nuñez
📖Self-assembly of Biodegradable Polymers from the Macro to the Nanoscale: Processing, Structure and Biodegradation.
📅Otsailak 28 Febrero
⏰9:30
📍Joxe Mari Korta Zentroaren Auditorioa/Auditorio del Centro Joxe Mari Korta

[ICTP-CSIC @ictp_promocion]

Las investigadoras del @ictp_promocion del @CSIC han visitado esta semana centros educativos de Madrid para visibilizar la contribución de las mujeres a la ciencia y acercar a los estudiantes el trabajo que desarrollan
#DíaMujerYNiñaEnCiencia #11F #11febrero

[NanoPoly&Gels Group @NanoPolyGels]

@gep2024 @ictp_promocion @RSEQUIMICA Do not miss @gep2024 !!!!

[Nicholas A. Peppas @NPeppas]

A wonderful review that I read today. "Particle–polymer interactions for 3D printing material design" Work of @AKGaharwar and associates. @ChemPhysRev You must read it. https://t.co/cFsAvAOFPB

[Andrew Akbashev @Andrew_Akbashev]

Overpublishing puts enormous stress on students and PIs.

And brings tons of money to publishers in STEM.

A new study shows that the number of papers is increasing FASTER than the number of #PhD graduates.

It’s an amazing work with very useful statistics. Huge kudos to the authors!

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Main outcomes:

1️⃣ In 2022 the number of articles is 47% higher than in 2016. The amount of writing, reviewing and editing workload per scientist is increased enormously.

2️⃣ “Special issues” is a strategy for publishing lots of papers with reduced review time. This is possible due to the “publish or perish” pressure and clearly benefits the publishers.

3️⃣ The publishing time varies widely!
MDPI = 37 days. Frontiers = 72 days. Elsevier = 134 days. Springer = 157 days. Nature = 185 days.

4️⃣ The article rejection rates do not seem to correlate with publisher growth. However, rejection rates decline with increased use of special issue publishing.

5️⃣ Certain for-profit gold-open-access publishers create an increasing number of special issues, with uniquely reduced turnaround times, and in specific cases, high impact inflation and reduced rejection rates.

6️⃣ The authors suggest a new metric - Impact Inflation, which is reflected in self-citation within the same journal. For example, MDPI has a high impact inflation due to excessive self-citation compared to other publishers.

Conclusions and my opinion:

- Scientists have to spend a lot more time on reviewing and writing than before (on average).

- The more papers are published, the more the quality is compromised.

- Scientific progress has become partially bound to the business models of publishers and their revenue (a sad reality today).

- There is a huge lack of transparency. Much of these data had to be ‘web-scraped’ from numerous sources in order to get a full picture. We clearly need regulators to mandate open access to publisher’s statistics.

- Reduce the number of special issues! Those typically have low standards.

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Science, publishing and funding make a trio that is very hard to disentangle.

However, research quality is controlled by the community.

This is why preprint + community review can make a big difference.

#AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

[NanoPoly&Gels Group @NanoPolyGels]

Today, our group is attending the two-days workshop organized by @susplast. Here you can find the overview of the platform @ictp_promocion

[NanoPoly&Gels Group @NanoPolyGels]

San Alberto celebration with the Biomaterials group!! Have a nice science day!!

[NanoPoly&Gels Group @NanoPolyGels]

Now It is time to see the "Canicas de alginato" team @ictp_promocion

[NanoPoly&Gels Group @NanoPolyGels]

@ADRIANESAR88 @alexein1997

[NanoPoly&Gels Group @NanoPolyGels]

¿Qué podemos hacer mediante bio-impresion 3D? @ictp_promocion

[NanoPoly&Gels Group @NanoPolyGels]

Canicas de alginato! @ictp_promocion @Alxs360 @luisipp @jorgemr_97

[NanoPoly&Gels Group @NanoPolyGels]

We are ready for Science Week!!