The CSIC collaborates in the European project iRel40, together with BSHE, Politecnico di Milano, Fraunhofer and Infineon, among others, for the development of a new generation of more reliable and robust induction cooktops. The IMB-CNM-CSIC is in charge of improving the qualification tests of power devices and determining why destructive events occur. The improvement of the protocols in the evaluation of components for power electronics and to improve their useful life are also sought.

A CSIC and BCMaterials team leads the development of a nature-inspired battery that can be biodegraded at the end of its lifetime following the natural cycle of a plant. The work proporses a new paradigm of sustainable batteries that follow the lifecycle of the devices they power.

The IMB is home to an exceptional infrastructure: the largest clean room in southern Europe, a hyper-clean environment for manufacturing everything from integrated circuits to photonic and quantum chips.

Researchers have designed cell-sized mechanical devices that can be introduced into cells and prevent them from dividing. The development of these devices paves the way for research and treatment of diseases such as cancer.

Issue 3 of the CSIC INVESTIGA magazine, coordinated by the CSIC Communications team, focuses on Energy and the current challenges presented by its research: renewable energy generation, industry conversion, storage and transformation.

A study published in Nature Nanotechnology shows that flexible brain probes made of graphene micro-transistors can be used to record pathological brain signals associated with epilepsy with excellent fidelity and high spatial resolution. This research was led by the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM-CSIC), the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) and the University College London Queen Square Institute of Neurology (UK).

The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) is publishing the White Papers of the 14 strategic themes established on the basis of their scientific impact and social importance. The IMB-CNM collaborates in some of them. Now, the CSIC is publishing in open access the White Paper of the fourth Challenge, New Challenges in Biomedicine and Health.

A work published in ACS Nano shows a method that will allow to study the near-surface thermal and compositional properties of self-assembled block copolymers and thereby reveal their intrinsic driving forces, contributing to the progress of bottom-up manufacturing.