School of Engineering
Electrochemistry and Bioanalysis Group
(EQBA)
2021 SGR 00528
The group’s activity is structured around the different analytical, spectrometric, chromatographic, electrochemical and optical techniques, both in their application and development.
The group’s most outstanding activities are the development of different types of sensors, the study of nano-structured materials and their environmental applications and the study of pollutants and impurities in environmental, pharmaceutical and food matrices.
In this environment, EQBA carries out its RD and technology transfer activities in the following areas:
- Quality control of raw materials and finished product
- Chemical composition
- Physical and physico-chemical properties
- Thermal analysis for material characterisation
- Liquid chromatography (HPLC, UPLC) with UV, diode array (DAD), fluorescence, refractive index (RI), conductimetric and mass spectrometer (MS) detectors
- Gas chromatography with capillary columns (HRGC) and packed columns (GC) and FID, ECD, TCD, FPD, NPD, TEA and MS detectors
- Atomic absorption spectrophotometry – flame; atomic absorption – graphite furnace; atomic absorption – FIAS/FIMS
- Atomic Emission Spectrometry OES-ICP
- Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer ICP-MS
- Scanning Electron Microscopy
- EDS Microanalysis
- Electrochemical interfaces: potentiostats, galvanostats, frequency response analysers (FRA)
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Doctoral thesis
Restoration of Cultural Heritage Objects Affected by Corrosion
11/12/2023
Dr Patricia Giménez recently defended her doctoral thesis at IQS, in which she established a new methodology for conserving and restoring ductile metals of cultural heritage objects based on the use of cold plasma.
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News
IQS-SCIEX: advances in high-resolution instrumentation
12/04/2023
As part of the collaboration agreement between IQS and the scientific instrumentation manufacturer SCIEX, two seminars were recently held to present the company's new high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) instruments and their applications.
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Research
Pioneering Techniques for the Characterization of Oligonucleotides
09/03/2023
Researchers at IQS are conducting pioneering research in the IQS-SCIEX Demo Lab to characterize and purify nucleic acids, the active principal ingredients used to develop new strategies in medicine and therapies.
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Research
The FusionCAT project comes to an end
01/12/2022
Researchers with the Electrometric Methods Laboratory at IQS formed part of FusionCAT, a project that has made it possible to bring a dynamic scientific community together in Catalonia that was able to make rather significant contributions in the field of fusion.
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Doctoral thesis
New electrochemical lithium sensors
01/12/2022
Dr Marc Nel·lo recently defended his doctoral thesis at IQS, in which he developed electrochemical lithium sensors that are suitable for being applied in future fusion reactors, thus opening the doors to advances in this type of energy.
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Research
Advancing Towards Fusion Energy
16/03/2022
Inside the EUROfusion project, in which IQS researchers participate, the 59 Megajoules fusion energy record was reached for five seconds, a giant leap forward for fusion reaction power generation.
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Research
Analysis of Neurotoxic Compounds in Water. COGNIRISK Project
21/01/2022
Researchers from IQS and IDAEA-CSIC collaborate in this project for the analysis of neurotoxic compounds present in water, using advanced methodologies that improve the detection of these compounds and the characterisation of their risk.
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Research
Research Agreement between IQS and PerkinElmer on ICP-MS Applications
21/10/2021
IQS (Ramon Llull University) and PerkinElmer have recently signed a partnership agreement to offer a new Industrial Doctorate (ID) as part of the Government of Catalonia's Industrial Doctorate Plan , co-financed between the company and the university.
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Research
New Generation of Drugs against Neurotoxic Industrial Chemicals (NeuroTICs)
03/05/2021
Researchers from IQS are part of the NeuroTICs project, a consortium created to establish a new generation of therapeutic agents against poisoning by neurotoxic agents, as well as to determine their action, using zebrafish and rodent models for the study.
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LATEST PROJECTS
Ecsenfus (Desarollo de sensores electroquímicos para su aplicación en fusión)
Desarrollo de sensores de hidrógeno (tritio) y de litio para su uso empleados en el eutéctico litio-plomo fundido y en litio
fundido, en ITER, el test de fusión nuclear más grande del mundo, que utiliza deuterio y tritio como combustible en la reacción de fusión en ITER.
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EUROFUSION (EUROPEAN RESEARCH ROADMAP FOR NUCLEAR FUSION)
Implementation of activities described in the Roadmap to Fusion during Horizon Europe through a joint programme of the members of the EUROfusion consortium
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EUTECTIC (Producción industrial de la aleación eutéctica de litio plomo enriquecida en Li-6 : material estratégico en Tecnología de Fusión)
Material estratégico de la tecnología energética del s. XXI: mejor material regenerador de combustible, para reactores de Fusión Nuclear
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