DUVI \u2013 23\/10\/2025
\nAna Mar\u00eda Vilas Iglesias, industrial engineer, PhD student at the School of Industrial Engineering and researcher with the LaserON group at the Cintecx research center of the University of Vigo, was awarded third prize by the Laser Institute of America for the best presentation at the 44th International Conference on the Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics, the world\u2019s largest event in the field of laser materials processing, recently held in Orlando, Florida, USA.<\/p>\n
Ana Vilas\u2019s work focused on the production of bimetallic nanoparticles using the laser ablation and re-irradiation technique developed by the LaserON group. \u201cI\u2019m very excited about this award because it recognizes all the work we\u2019ve been doing for several years. When I was an undergraduate student at the School of Industrial Engineering in Vigo and dreamed of becoming a researcher, I couldn\u2019t even imagine I\u2019d be able to do such exciting work, present it at a conference in the United States, and receive an award like this,\u201d Vilas explained.<\/p>\n
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is considered by the World Health Organization (WHO) to be one of the most pressing global health challenges of the 21st century, recalls the researcher, who highlights the group\u2019s contribution: \u201cWe\u2019re doing our small part by working with bimetallic nanoparticles.\u201d Noble metal nanoparticles have attracted growing attention as a promising tool to combat resistant infections. However, some\u2014like copper\u2014have proven to be toxic. \u201cIn this research, we explored bimetallic nanoparticles, as the combination of palladium and copper reduces copper\u2019s toxicity while preserving its bactericidal properties,\u201d adds Ana Vilas, who completed a research stay at the Nanotechnology Center in Essen, Germany, where she was able to confirm the excellent properties of bimetallic nanoparticles.<\/p>\n
The award-winning work is part of Ana Vilas\u2019s doctoral thesis, supervised by professors and researchers Mohamed Boutinguiza and Juan Pou.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ana Mar\u00eda Vilas used the laser ablation and re-irradiation technique developed by the LaserON group. Noble metal nanoparticles are a powerful tool to combat resistant infections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":259604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-duvi-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259612"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259712,"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259612\/revisions\/259712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cintecx.uvigo.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}