Last 18th June, the CPT Technical Manager Dr. Sergi Dosta took part in a Virtual Preview Session of the ITSC 2021, entitled Coatings for Anti-Virus, Bacteria and Fungus Applications, where several experts held a discussion regarding how thermal spray applications can be used to deposit antimicrobial compounds on different types of high-touch surfaces. Under the…
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Our CPT researcher Dr. Vicente Albaladejo received the 2019/2020 PhD Extraordinary Award on the speciality of Materials Science for his Doctoral Thesis called Catalizadores Cu-perovskita para la eliminación de NOx procedente de motores diésel (Cu-perovskite catalyst for the removal of NOx from diesel engines), which was defended on September of 2017. This award was given…
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Our Technical Manager, Dr. Sergi Dosta and the researcher Beatriz Garrido, attended to the Réencontres Internationales sur la Projéction Thèrmique (RIPT) for presenting a conference entitled In-vitro test evaluation of bioactive glass coatings obtained by APS and CGS (B.Garrido; R.L. García; J. Fernández; S. Dosta; I.G. Cano), as well as the posters Abrasive wear performance…
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Last 11th December, the Thermal Spray Center (CPT) was prized with the Antonio Caparròs award for the best knowledge transference project, called Transformació d’una empresa mecànica mitjançant l’accés als nous mercats de l’enginyeria de superfícies amb la col·laboració de la Universitat de Barcelona (Transformation of a mechanical company through access to the new markets of…
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The Thermal Spray Center was awarded the Jim Kape Memorial Medal by the Institute of Materials Finishing (IMF) for its remarkable labour on materials science field research with the paper entitled Hierarchical structures of anodised cold gas sprayed titanium Coatings (Vilardell, A.M.; Cinca, N.; Pacheco, I.; Santiveri, C.; Dosta, S.; Cano, I.G.; Guilemany, J.M.; Sarret,…
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The Annual Congress of the European Federation of Corrosion celebrated this year a new Edition in the city of Seville (Spain) with the name of EUROCORR 2019. This event, which took place the last 9th to 13th of September under the Sociemat organization and Dechema support, focused on taking a step forwards on the new…
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Last 19th of June, our technical manager Dr. Sergi Dosta was invited as scientific committee member to the XVI Edition of Congreso Nacional de Tratamientos Térmicos y de Superficie (In english, National Congress of Thermal and Surface Treatments), known as Tratermat 2019. At this event, where new research trends, development chances and several enforcements into…
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The 5th CGS Summer School was organized at Finca Pedro i Pons, a beautiful country house surrounded by a great landscape which allowed us to enjoy the sunny weather of Barcelona, specially at breaks and lunch times. On monday evening, we had the opportunity of enjoying the Social Dinner, where the attendees got to know…
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Last days 22 to 24th of October, the Offshore Energy 2018 was celebrated at Amsterdam RAI, in The Netherlands. The overall theme this year was Explote. Inspire. Transform., expecting that this event was a call-to-action for the future of wind industry. Our CPT technical manager Dr. Sergi Dosta had the pleasure of attending some very…
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Last July 12th of 2018, CPT director Dr. Irene García Cano was invited to the meeting conference Un nuevo esquema de gestión de las ayudas I+D+I: la Agencia Estatal de Investigación (A new R&D funding management: the State Research Agency), where she talked about results of the OFFCOAT project inside Retos Colaboración program. At this…
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