It has been a pleasure to host PhD student Marcela Quintero at UPV/EHU and URA during one and two months, developing new materials based on Metal Organic Frameworks and Deep Eutectic Solvents; and determining the real operation conditions through the study and sampling of Basque Country water samples. Indeed researchers from the laboratory of URA and Marcela Quintero have achieved a great goal within INDESMOF, the participation of a small enterprise that has bring us some industrial water samples after and before the treatments necessary to incorporate them in the Basque Country Water Basins. In the near future, we will corroborate if the materials developed within the project are able to capture the heavy metals from synthetic and real water solutions. Thanks a lot Marcela for your diligence, hard work and kind character.

Marcela Quintero working during her secondment at URA within the INDESMOF project

Marcela visiting the laboratories of the BCMaterials to perform Chitin based membranes. From left to the right: Marcela Quintero, Gabriel Tovar, Senentxu Valverde, Arkaitz Fidalgo and Ainara Valverde.

Marcela working at the laboratories of Mineralogy and Petrology department of the University of the Basque Country.