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31/01/2015
Iranian entrepreneurs at the ALBA synchrotron
On January 30, an Iranian delegation headed by Yahya Ale-Eshag, president of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture, paid a visit to the ALBA synchrotron. This group of 32 representatives from different companies spent 4 days in Barcelona in the framework of a visit co-organized by the PIMEC Catalan SMEs association in order to help its members internationalize.

The visit of the synchrotron allowed the delegation to discover the partnership between ALBA and Iran for designing and constructing a synchrotron with similar characteristics to those of the Spanish facility. The Iranian synchrotron should be operative by the end of 2018.

This meeting was also a good opportunity to give the delegation a first-hand knowledge of the Barcelona Synchrotron Park strategy to attract worldwide high-tech companies around ALBA and thus, to offer a European reference landing platform for enterprises looking for an environment conducive to innovation.
22/01/2015
What is a synchrotron and how it works?
The United Nations and UNESCO have declared 2015 the International Year of Light and Light-Based Technologies. To mark the year, physicist and ALBA synchrotron director Caterina Biscari will give a lecture in Barcelona on next Monday 26 at 7pm.

A synchrotron could be defined in two words as a gigantic microscope. But: what kind of microscope? Why gigantic? Why such a shape? For what purpose? … This lecture will answer all these questions and many more.

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Image: ALBA synchrotron in the Barcelona Synchrotron Park
15/01/2015
AFM2015 at ICMAB: Nanoscale Characterization of Functional Materials
On January 19, the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB) to which companies from the Barcelona Synchrotron Park have a privileged access, organizes AFM2015 a workshop that aims at providing an overview of novel advanced methods for the nanoscale characterization of materials functionalities in diverse fields, such as biology, materials science, soft condensed matter, etc.

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Image:  BaZrO3 nanotubes, Albert Calleja et al., ICMAB
08/01/2015
Ice under investigation: ICN2 and ICMAB sign an agreement with SnowWorld
The Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2) and the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) are two reference research centers in the field of materials located in the campus of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). The Barcelona Synchrotron Park (BSP) has an agreement with these two institutes that affords BSP companies a privileged access to their facilities and their science and technology services.

Dr. Albert Verdaguer from ICN2 is a specialist of a very common but relatively unknown material: ice. This researcher is behind the agreement signed in December between SnowWorld, ICN2 and ICMAB that allows the creation of a research laboratory on ice forming in the future winter sports complex that SnowWorld wants to build in the Barcelona Port Free Zone. This complex would take advantage of the refrigeration effect due to the gasification of the liquid gas imported by tankers.

Water is a so familiar material that it might be thought everything is known about it but it is not true: above different open questions, the liquid-solid transition can be mentioned (how external conditions lead to one kind of crystals or another, etc.). This question is an important issue in weather forecast, industry or sport with the production of artificial snow or ice.

This original research laboratory might allow progress in a better understanding of the natural water freezing mechanisms and therefore in the production of on-demand types of snow with less water, less energy and in a more nature-like process.
 
23/12/2014
Kymos Pharma Services in the PTV
KYMOS Pharma services, which is a GLP certified company that offers a wide range of analytical assays to the chemical-pharmaceutical, veterinary and cosmetic sectors, recently moved to its new headquarters in the Vallès Technology Park (PTV).

The PTV is the oldest technology park in Spain and is the precursor of the Barcelona Synchrotron Park that borders it and that collaborates with.

The PTV created in 1987 aims at being a plateform for technology based new business projects. It currently hosts 133 companies and 3,000 people. The most important sectors represented are the industrial, ICT, biotechnology and environment sectors, respectively.

The arrival of Kymos in the PTV represents a new team of pharmacists, biologists and chemists occupying a 1,500 sq. meters space equipped with the latest technology.

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18/12/2014
Barcelona is one of the 20 best cities for students
One of the Barcelona Synchrotron Park (BSP) top assets is the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) located nearby the park and with which the BSP works. With all the different universities of Barcelona, the UAB provides companies with well trained people in all sectors of the economy.

Thanks, among other things, to the favorable ranking of the UAB in the lastest QS World University Rankings 2014/15 (2nd top Spanish university) and the one of the University of Barcelona (top Spanish university), Barcelona ranks as the 19th best city in the world for university students according to the QS Best Student Cities 2015 released earlier this month.

The ranking is led by Paris. Barcelona, which is the first among cities in Spain, is classified as one of the most appealing environments in which to study in Europe. QS highlights factors such as the city's large and international student community and the cost of living.
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