http://www.upc.edu/saladepremsa hourly 2 2008-09-09T10:07:34Z http://www.upc.edu/saladepremsa/al-dia/mes-noticies/upc-team-patents-specific-fibre-based-material-currently-being-used-to-rehabilitate-the-gaudi-house-museum-in-barcelona2019s-park-guell A UPC team, working together with the company PROMSA, has developed and patented a new type of concrete known as HALF for use in the rehabilitation of old buildings. The new material is being used for the first time to restore the Gaudí House Museum in Barcelona’s Park Güell and will be presented at the Construmat 2013 International Construction Show, which runs from 22 to 24 May. A UPC team and the company PROMSA have developed a new type of concrete No publisher rossy.laciana portal recerca 2013-05-16T11:00:13Z Noticia Premsa http://www.upc.edu/saladepremsa/al-dia/mes-noticies/upc-develops-an-advanced-traffic-management-system-to-reduce-costs-and-pollution A team at the InLab of the Barcelona School of Informatics (FIB), at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya • BarcelonaTech (UPC), has developed an information system to improve the mobility management of people and vehicles that is based on intelligent data processing. It solves problems related to traffic congestion and transport systems, energy consumption, air pollution emissions and quality of life in cities. The platform offers applications based on intelligent mobility No publisher carla.galisteo portal recerca 2013-05-13T13:00:07Z Noticia Premsa http://www.upc.edu/saladepremsa/al-dia/mes-noticies/the-upc-builds-a-new-high-performance-cave-automatic-virtual-environment-that-functions-with-gesture-recognition Low cost, versatility and high resolution (16 million pixels in total) characterise the new immersive virtual reality environment built by MOVING, a UPC research group. The environment enables 3D digital models to be inspected in great detail using a wireless gesture recognition system. It has applications in industrial design and medicine and for museums No publisher carla.galisteo portal recerca 2013-05-10T15:30:06Z Noticia Premsa http://www.upc.edu/saladepremsa/al-dia/mes-noticies/samsung-backs-upc-led-project-to-develop-graphene-based-micro-antennas Anticipated applications include communication between processors on a single chip and the creation of networks of wireless nanosensors. This is one of the innovations that the UPC will be showcasing at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2013, the world’s most important mobile technology event, to be held from 25 to 28 February at the Fira Gran Via fairgrounds in Barcelona. The project is one of two Spanish initiatives selected by Samsung GRO No publisher carla.galisteo portal recerca 2013-03-05T12:25:41Z Noticia Premsa http://www.upc.edu/saladepremsa/al-dia/mes-noticies/artificial-atoms-allow-for-magnetic-resonance-on-individual-cells Researchers from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) –an associate institute of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC)–, in collaboration with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Macquarie University in Australia, have developed a new technique, similar to the MRI but with a much higher resolution and sensitivity, that has the ability to scan individual cells. The research has been published in the journal 'Nature Nanotech' No publisher carla.galisteo portal recerca 2013-02-15T11:51:33Z Noticia Premsa