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Los nuevos retos del sector en el siglo XXI, a debate en Expoquimia 2008The CSIC experts will participate in the fair in a technical seminar organized by the Institute of advanced chemistry of Catalonia
The new challenges of the sector in the 21st century, to debate in Expoquimia 2008
Drafting Interempresas13/05/2008
May 13, 2008
The new challenges of the chemistry in the 21st century will be treated in a technical seminar organized by the Institute of advanced chemistry of Catalonia and which will take place on 22 October to be held in Barcelona from 20 to 24 October in the framework of
Expoquimia 2008. The Institute of advanced chemistry is a recent creation and depends on the Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), body, in this way, participating actively in the meeting of the Mediterranean applied chemistry.
The sustainable production of industrial materials and consumer goods, the explosion of new technologies with great potential for application in the area of nanoscience or the growing need for development of new tools to improve the health and quality of life are some of the most important issues that has faced the current chemistry, according to the specialists of the CSIC.
Aspect of the last edition of Expoquimia (2005).
Presentations
A group of researchers from the CSIC will present several papers which discuss aspects of current chemistry and will be made known his work that, with rigor and vision for the future, responds to this problem. Dr. Pere Clapés, research scientist of the CSIC, will open the day with the presentation ' chemistry and diversity: potential and prospects for the biocatalysts in the preparation of high value added products '. Later, Dr. María Rosa Infante, CSIC Research Professor, will speak of ' surfactants: opportunities and challenges in sustainable chemistry '. The session will continue with the paper 'Technologies of modern chemistry and its influence', in the biosciences in charge of the doctor Angel Messenger, Professor of investigation of the Centre. The end point for the day, will make the doctor pillar framework with his dissertation on ' assembling of bioreceptores and transducers: a new generation of analytical devices based on hybrid materials '.
This day of the CSIC joins the wide scientific range designed by the Organization of Expoquimia in order to complete the trade show and consolidate the Hall as a forum for debate and reflection on chemistry and its applications.
A Nobel Prize in the living roomThe German chemist Kurt Wüthrich, Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2002, one of the pioneers of Biochemistry will be rapporteur in the 12th Conference of Instrumental Analysis (JHA), organized by the Spanish society of chromatography and related techniquesthey will be held from 21 to 23 October in the framework of Expoquimia 2008.
Wüthric was one of the three winners (along with the American John Fenn and Koichi Tanaka Japanese) by the Swedish Academy of Sciences for his research on the application of techniques of nuclear magnetic resonance analysis of biomolecules. Through its own methods, Wüthrich and his colleagues were able to show the structure and dynamics of proteins. Know its structure allows to find explanations to their functions, which represents a step of giant in genetic research, the treatment of diseases such as various types of cancers or checking the composition of foodstuffs.
In the days, and next to Wüthrich, leading Spanish and international experts will analyze aspects such as food security, environmental, clinical analysis or the analysis of proteins under the thread of the analytical instrumentation. The days of Instrumental analysis are true reflection of the evolution of the techniques of analytical chemistry in the last three years have elapsed since the last edition of Expoquimia, which took place in 2005.
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