Last March 6-10, 2017, Carolina Fernández attended the 5th international Conference on Multifunctional, Hybrid and Nanomaterials – HYMA 2017, celebrated in Lisbon, Portugal, where she presented the work developed in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Sydney, entitled “Enhancing the performance of polyethylene based anion exchange membranes using functionalized iron oxide nanoparticles and oxidized multi-walled carbon nanotubes: mechanism and comparison between nanomaterials”.