The company co-founded by Neus Sabaté, an IMB-CNM researcher, receives the "Best in Class" award in the "Tech Transfer" category for its development of paper-based ecological batteries. The "Best in Class" awards, with four categories, recognize projects with a high disruptive profile and business transformation. Fuelium batteries do not generate toxic waste and can power a wide variety of single-use devices.

The company INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, founded by a researcher from the Barcelona Microelectronics Institute, has been selected by the European Innovation Council to receive Accelerator funding.

Energiot, a spin-off of the CSIC has developed a device to prevent the electrocution of birds on power lines and prevent accidents due to these causes.

Up to 59 groups, five of them from the CSIC, are part of the new TECNIO Association to promote technology transfer and connection with the business world. The Group of Chemical Transducers, GTQ, is one of the units with the TECNIO seal.

David Bricio has won the Best Poster Award in the JPhD2021, the 6th Scientific Meeting of PhD Students organized by PhD fellows of the ICMAB, IMB-CNM, ICN2 and the UAB. Marc Navarro, also at the IMB-CNM, won the second prize.

The Advanced Materials Cluster of Catalonia (Cluster MAV) is an organization that aims to promote and contribute to the competitiveness of companies and organizations in the advanced materials sector. The IMB-CNM has become a new member joining over 60 research institutions and companies, whilst providing unique capacities in silicon technologies.

Engineer Albert Alcacer has been awarded with the best oral presentation in the category of "Sensors, actuators and biomedical devices" in the last Spanish Conference on Electron Devices, which took place from 9th to 10th June.

The Societat Catalana de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (SCN2) awards the first Dresselhaus Prize to María Jesús Ortiz i Aguayo, Chemistry graduate from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), with a work reviewed by Dr. Maria del Mar Baeza Labat (UAB) and Dr. Gemma Gabriel Buguña (IMB-CNM).