IBEC in the Media

A paper published in Small last month by Lorenzo Albertazzi’s group is featured in Advanced Science News, Wiley publishing company’s in-house news website. This platform presents advances in various fields of research for a general audience.

Samuel Sanchez is featured in an article in QUO magazine that discusses how chemistry and technology are combining to offer sustainable solutions for society and the planet.

The press release about Samuel Sanchez’s recent paper in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces that describes tiny robots that can remove disease-causing bacteria from water got coverage in La Vanguardia’s Big Vang section, rTVE and other outlets.

An article about IBEC’s incorporation in BIST appears, along with an interview with Andreu Mas-Colell, in yesterday’s edition of El Punt Avui.

An opinion piece by the University of Leicester’s Salvador Macip, a speaker at the recent IBEC 10th Anniversary Symposium, appeared in El Periodico on Friday.

IBEC’s 10th birthday featured in La Vanguardia yesterday, with an article and photo of Tuesday’s part of the symposium.

Yesterday IBEC appeared on Canal 33’s “El día de demà” programme in an episode about disease.

The programme, which is the brainchild of journalist Josep Puigbó and is directed by TV3 in association with l’Obra Social “la Caixa”, addressed the fact that in the last fifty years, life expectancy has increased by thirty years and that disciplines such as photonics, nanotechnology, robotics and augmented reality are opening new ways to diagnose, prevent or treat diseases of the future.

This weekend Samuel Sanchez was interviewed by El Punt Avui and ABC talking about nanorobots and the future of medicine.

Today’s news about the launch of a multi-million euro 3D printing infrastructure in Catalonia, the Global 3D Printing Hub, got lots of press coverage, some examples of which are listed below.

Premi Nacional de Recerca winners Samuel Sanchez and ICFO’s Lluís Torner appeared on El Punt Avui’s L’Illa de Robinson programme on Wednesday, after the awards ceremony on Tuesday night. It’s just one example of the huge amount of press coverage there’s been about the awards.