La Institució CERCA és el mitjà propi i servei tècnic de l’Administració de la Generalitat de Catalunya per al seguiment, suport i facilitació de l’activitat dels centres de recerca del sistema CERCA.

Constituïda com a fundació el 16 de juny de 2010, té per missió garantir un desenvolupament adequat del sistema de centres de recerca català; afavorir i maximitzar les sinergies, la coordinació entre els centres i la cooperació estratègica; millorar el posicionament, la visibilitat i l’impacte de la recerca duta a terme i facilitar la interlocució amb els diferents agents públics i privats.

Recent Submissions

Thumbnail

Dynamical analysis of a model of BCL-2-dependent cellular decision making 

Cloete, Ielyaas; Alarcón Cor, Tomás (2025-11-22)

The BCL-2 protein family governs critical cell-fate decisions between survival, senescence, and apoptosis, yet the dynamical principles underlying these choices remain poorly understood. Here, we integrate mathematical ...

Thumbnail

Catálogo. Cerámicas del contexto de stercilinum de València la Vella del siglo VII d.C. (Riba-roja de Túria, València) 

Gutiérrez-Soto, Itziar (2025-12-18)

Catálogo del material cerámico procedente de los estratos 7002, 7003 y 7004 localizados en la tercera campaña de excavaciones del yacimiento de València la Vella (2018) procedente de un contexto de vertedero datado entre ...

Thumbnail

Evaluating the transfer learning from metals to oxides with GAME-Net-Ox 

Van Hout, Thomas; Loveday, Oliver; Morales-Vidal, Jordi; Morandi, Santiago; López, Núria (2025-12-03)

The estimation of the strength of the bond of adsorbates on the surface is key to the design of novel materials for heterogeneous catalysis. Machine learning (ML) methodologies have proven effective in rapidly and accurately ...

Thumbnail

Pompeya: excavaciones estratigráficas en la casa de Ariadna o “dei capitelli colorati” (regio vii,4,51 y 31). Campaña de 2007 

Ribera, Albert; ALBIACH, ROSA; Ballester, Carmina; Bustamente, Macarena; Caruana, Isabel; Escrivà, Isabel; Huguet Enguita, Esperança; Olcina, Manuel; Salavert, Juan V.; Vioque, José (2008-01-01)

La casa de Ariadna o dei Capitelli Colorati es una de las más grandes de Pompeya con 1700 m² de superficie. Está situada en la Regio VII, insula 4. Esta insula es irregular y poco tiene que ver con las ortogonales insulae ...

Thumbnail

Chapter Four - Recent advances in Ni-catalyzed functionalization of strong C−O and C−H bonds 

Talavera, Laura; Odena, Carlota; Martin, Ruben (2024-06-13)

While extensive research on palladium catalysis has made a toolbox available to the synthetic chemist, nickel catalysis has recently offered innovative tactics and new chemical space that would otherwise by beyond reach ...

Thumbnail

El fenómeno del doble sellado en dolia del nordeste peninsular 

Rueda, Maria (2025-10-02)

Este artículo se centra en la problemática del sellado de los dolia, en concreto, sobre aquellos recipientes con dos sellos. Además de hipotetizar el motivo de dicho sellado, se describen los fragmentos de dolia con dos ...

Thumbnail

Prospecció geofísica al presbiteri de la catedral de Tarragona: una hipòtesi per a la localització del baptisteri de la catedral visigòtica 

Macias-Solé, Josep-M; HIMI, MAHJOUB; Muñoz Virgili , Andreu; Urruela, Aritz; Melgar, Andreu Muñoz; Casas, Albert (2025)

La caracterització de la seu episcopal visigoda de Tarragona és una de les línies de recerca més complexes actualment. Això es deu al fet que la superposició arquitectònica de la catedral medieval sobre ...

Thumbnail

Can subfossil insects complement pedoanthracology in reconstructing the past trajectories of old-growth forests? A study case from the Northern Central Pyrenees (France) 

PARRILLA, Sarah; Saulnier, Mélanie; Larrieu, Laurent; Valladares, Lionel; Pescini, Valentina; Moret, Pierre; PY-SARAGAGLIA, Vanessa (2025-11-24)

The presence of insect remains preserved in soils has the potential to serve as a complementary proxy to charcoal, facilitating the reconstruction of Holocene forest trajectories at high spatial resolution. Six pits were ...

Thumbnail

La epigrafía: mensaje en directo de la antigüedad 

Rodà de Llanza, Isabel (2016-12-20)

El artículo recoge la intervención leída el 28 de octubre de 2015, en la sesión de homenaje al Prof. José d’Encarnação. El tema central giró en torno a los textos epigráficos que hacen llegar su voz a través de los siglos ...

Thumbnail

Multi-modal contrastive learning for chemical structure elucidation with VibraCLIP 

Rocabert-Oriols, Pau; Lo Conte, Camilla; López, Núria; Heras-Domingo, Javier (2025-11-11)

Identifying molecular structures from vibrational spectra is central to chemical analysis but remains challenging due to spectral ambiguity and the limitations of single-modality methods. While deep learning has advanced ...

Thumbnail

Data as a Key Resource in Catalysis: A Community Account 

Mendes, Pedro S. F.; López, Núria; De, Sandip; Fushimi, Rebecca; Yildirim, Ramazan; Trunschke, Annette (2025-12-09)

The deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the scientific fields central to interdisciplinary catalysis research. By enabling more effective use of data, AI (including simpler machine learning and data ...

Tri-tert-butyl arylamine zinc phthalocyanine derivatives as p-type self-assembled molecules for efficient perovskite solar cells 

Hernández, Adrián; Sánchez, José G.; Ortiz, Javier; Martínez-Ferrero, Eugenia; Palomares, Emilio; Sastre-Santos, Ángela (2025-06-26)

Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) offer a promising alternative to conventional charge-selective contacts in perovskite solar cells by effectively tuning the interface to enhance device performance. This work presents the ...

Thumbnail

Charting the influence of deuterium sources in hydrogen isotope exchange using a cobalt(III) catalytic platform 

Barranco, Sergio; Eshel, Inbal L.; Zhang, Jiayu; Di Matteo, Marco; Milo, Anat; Pérez-Temprano, Mónica H. (2025-11-25)

Directed hydrogen isotope exchange strategies have become an essential tool for accessing isotopically labelled organic scaffolds and interrogating the mechanisms of transition metal-catalysed C–H activation. However, the ...

Thumbnail

Solvent-free crosslinking of Hydroxypropyl cellulose via esterification: Towards green bioplastics 

Ren, Hongning; An, Lan; Moy, Brandon; Ali, Camran; Lee, Daniel; Burés, Jordi; Dumanli, Ahu Gümrah (2025-10-13)

Resource depletion, waste management, and climate change drives innovation towards bioplastics. Among the renewable cellulose derivatives, hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC) stands out for its biocompatibility, ease of processing, ...

Thumbnail

Cu–ZnO Core–Shell Structures for CO2 Hydrogenation to Methanol: Insights into Reactivity and Deactivation under High-Pressure Conditions 

Gaikwad, Rohit; Kränzlin, Niklaus; Benet-Buchholz, Jordi; Niederberger, Markus; Koziej, Dorota; Urakawa, Atsushi (2025-11-06)

Methanol is a valuable chemical energy carrier and C1 feedstock, with significant research efforts directed toward its production via CO2 hydrogenation. Here, we report a surfactant-free, non-aqueous synthesis of Cu–ZnO ...

Thumbnail

Site-Selective Peptide and Protein Functionalization with Cyclopropenium Cations 

Faraone, Adriana; Balletti, Matteo; Jeandin, Aliénor; Tu, Hang-Fei; Ikonnikova, Viktoria A.; Sojka, Laura S.; Suero, Marcos G. (2025-11-04)

In the realm of organic chemistry, carbocations play a pivotal role as highly reactive intermediates in the synthesis of complex molecules. While cyclase enzymes construct terpenoid natural products through carbocation ...

Thumbnail

Domino Synthesis of Functionalized Cyclic Acetals From Organic Carbonates 

Kulbacka, Natalia; Shi, Wangyu; Guillaume, Sophie M.; Carpentier, Jean-François; Benet-Buchholz, Jordi; Kleij, Arjan W. (2025-11-25)

We report a method for the base-mediated transformation of ether-tethered acrylic ester-based cyclic carbonates into functionalized cyclic acetals. The protocol builds on the use of hydroxyalkyl-substituted cyclic carbonates ...

Thumbnail

Multi-modal contrastive learning for chemical structure elucidation with VibraCLIP 

Rocabert-Oriols, Pau; Lo Conte, Camilla; López, Núria; Heras-Domingo, Javier (2025-11-11)

Identifying molecular structures from vibrational spectra is central to chemical analysis but remains challenging due to spectral ambiguity and the limitations of single-modality methods. While deep learning has advanced ...

Thumbnail

Dual Catalytic Enantioconvergent Carbamoylation of Aziridines 

Zhang, Liangliang; Liu, Huilin; Santiago, Tomás G.; Martin, Ruben (2025-11-20)

Herein, we disclose an enantioconvergent carbamoylation of racemic aziridines enabled by a dual catalytic strategy. The method offers a new entry point to highly enantioenriched β-amino amides from simple precursors and ...

Actualización en gripe aviar 

Majo, Natalia (2025)

More