Instituto Regional de Investigacion Científica Aplicada - IRICA -UCLM

The IRICA (Instituto Regional de Investigación Científica Aplicada) was initiated as a technological and scientific service to the Castillian-Manchega society. This service includes mainly the technical and personal infrastructure centred around the Faculty of Chemical Sciences at the Universidad de Castilla La Mancha in Ciudad Real. Nowadays, IRICA homes a wide number of research group divided in different sections. The different sections focus on the study of materials, from macro to nano scale, the development of analytical methodologies, engineering of process based on sustainable chemistry and the technology and chemistry in foods. The equipment placed at IRICA has been mainly obtained through European and regional (JCCM) funding and from different national programs of the Spanish Government. All the instrumentation is currently in used towards solving the different problems that the different research groups are met with in the scope of their research. The Instrumentation Unit is also available as technical service to other universities and companies.