News & Events

On December 9th, 15h00, at the UNINOVA Amphitheater, Anna Chiara Bressi, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Laboratory of Applied Materials for Printed and Soft Electronics (LAMPSe), Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, will present an overview of recent research on Laser-Induced Graphene (LIG) produced from synthetic and bioderived polymeric precursors.

Researcher Rui Gonçalves won first prize in the SPIN Rise: Pitch the Science accelerator program, whose in-person phase took place between November 26 and 28, in Milan, Italy.

As part of Science and Technology Week 2025, promoted by Ciência Viva, Ana Almeida and José Malta visited seven schools across Lisbon, Almada and Seixal to deliver the activity “A Scientist in School: When Nature Inspires New Materials”. Across three days, the initiative reached more than 300 students, from the 7th to the 12th year, strengthening scientific literacy and encouraging curiosity about materials science and sustainability.

i3N welcomed a high-level delegation from Southeast University during a European visit aimed at fostering strategic cooperation in advanced materials, flexible electronics, and emerging technologies.

The WE-SWEAT project, led by Professor Elvira Fortunato, positions NOVA FCT and i3N at the forefront of European innovation in wearable health technologies. Selected under the latest EUTOPIA call in the health domain, this initiative will develop an autonomous, non-invasive platform capable of extracting and analyzing sweat to monitor chloride and glucose levels in real time.

NANOMAT-Talks are back!
November 20th
15h00 @ CENIMAT|i3N Amphitheater
Speaker: Professor Quan Li | Title: Responsive Materials: An Overview of Our Recent Research

Professor Elvira Fortunato has been invited by the Remarque Institute at New York University (NYU) to take part in the international conference “What's Left of Europe's Technological Sovereignty?”, to be held in New York on 14-15 November 2025.