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As Part of the Exhibition “Italy of Innovators” 

AREA at Expo in Shanghai


26.04.2010 -

AREA Science Park will be showcasing three technological developments at the 2010 International Trade Fair, devised and developed by companies operating in the Science Park of Trieste: active roofing, robot-pharmacist and near field optical microscope. The three projects will be presented as part of the "Italy of Innovators" initiative (24th July to 7th August 2010), a temporary showcase organized by the Ministry of Public Administration and Innovation, for the purpose of promoting technological excellence, the fruit of Italian engineering and inventive flair.

 

The technologies presented in Shanghai were selected from 454 proposals by a technical committee of members of the world of business and communications, fulfilling two requirements: they had to originate from companies/consortiums, universities, research centres, science and/or technology parks, and they had to be technological innovations for the local community, people and quality of life. The technology developed at AREA Science Park covers both requirements, having to do with energy saving and biomedical industry.

 

The "active roofing" project was developed by the company STP and will soon be "worn" by one of the buildings in the park. It is an external coating with a gap in which natural or forced air circulates, made " active" by heat pumps. The system is coupled with a conventional system of geothermal probes and heat pump to guarantee economic, management and energy advantages, for example for blocks of flats or public buildings.

 

The biomedical field, on the other hand, is represented by the robot pharmacist, CytoCare, and the near field optical microscope TriA-SNOM. CytoCare, devised and made by Health Robotics, is the first robotic system in the world designed to handle and automatically prepare cancer drugs for use in hospitals. It can automatically prepare cancer drug treatments in a sterile environment. It uses innovative technology, both in hardware and software. Currently, the robot is being used in forty hospitals around the globe.

 

TriA-SNOM (Scanning Near Field Optical Microscope) is a microscope designed and optimised by A.P.E. Research S.r. for nanobiomedical applications. It is an integrated optical system that permits up to three types of optical signals to be acquired with the simultaneous topographical image of the sample. It belongs to the family of probe scanning microscopes, a category that can reach very high resolution, enabling 3D topographical reconstruction of the sample surface (up to the resolution of the individual atoms it is made of). Thanks to their innovative technology, these microscopes can open new frontiers of nanomedicine.

 

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