The XRE4S network is an ecosystem of 14 research centres and universities bringing together experts in the energy sector of Catalonia with the aim of promoting technology transfer and technology valorisation to industry and society. With a firm commitment to accessibility and to create more attractive formats, during 2021, XRE4S has prepared a series of […]

The Water Oxidation Reaction (WOR) is one of the most important reactions on the planet since it is the source of nearly all the atmosphere’s oxygen. Understanding its intricacies can hold the key to improve the reaction efficiency. Unfortunately, the reaction’s mechanisms are complex and the reaction intermediates highly unstable, thus making their isolation and […]

Being adaptable is finding solutions to overcome challenges. Climate change is no trivial problem, with implications that permeate the whole fabric of our global society. By introducing the European Green Deal, the European Commission aims at turning climate and environmental challenges into opportunities, like constructing a green hydrogen ecosystem that can benefit all. Spurred by […]

Accelerating the knowledge transfer from academia into industry is of great importance to overcome the challenges our society faces. With this goal in mind, the ICIQ project ELECTRA has joined the 2021 Call for Technologies of The Collider, an innovation programme of the Mobile World Capital Barcelona that brings together scientific and entrepreneurial talent to […]

ioChem-BD, a digital repository aimed to manage, store and publish Computational Chemistry Datasets, has been awarded storage capacity within the Spanish Supercomputing Network (RES) on its first call open to the research community. In this first call for data services, the Barcelona Supercomputer Center through the RES has granted 7,5 Petabytes of storage to 18 […]

Bruna Sánchez, PhD student in the Maseras group, has advanced to the semi-finals of FameLab, a scientific talks competition organised by Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT) and the British Council. “A few years ago, I was always nervous when I had to speak in public. But every step I’ve taken has […]

Nuria Llorente, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Anton Vidal, has defended her PhD thesis entitled “Transition Metal-Catalyzed Cycloaddition Reactions for the Formation of Eight- and Six-Membered Rings” (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on April 22nd.   The members of the evaluation committee were: […]