Researchers at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) have designed and patented a floating platform for offshore wind turbin... Read more
Black silicon solar cells are now real contenders There’s been plenty of good news about solar power lately – not only are governments around the world using it more and more, we... Read more
The research may contribute to the development of more effective drugs against malaria Researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC), the Instituto de QuÃmi... Read more
Oriol Cusola, a 29-year-old researcher from Lleida, has patented a new aqueous compound to functionalise or modify the properties of paper and any other cellulosic material. The compound use... Read more
Increasingly small robots can carry out their functions even inside the human body. No, this isn’t a sci-fi dream. The technology is almost ready. However there is still one condition... Read more
Reduced costs for industry A team of researchers from the Nanoengineering Research Centre (CRNE) and the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · Ba... Read more
The innovative feature of this new (vertical multilayer) concrete is that it acts as a natural biological support for the growth and development of certain biological organisms, to be specif... Read more
Telemedicine is heading in this direction, with control centres that receive large amounts of information and computer systems that detect and analyse irregularities The Instrumentation, Sen... Read more