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Comecer is taking part in TROPIC Research Project on Radioisotope Production

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Comecer, in a consortium with INFN, University of Ferrara and the company Biomeccanica Srl, is taking part in the TROPIC project (Target for Radioisotope Production via anti-Channelling).

The project is part of the European Regional Development Plan POR-FESR Axis 1, Research and Innovation 2014-2020 of the Emilia-Romagna region.  Axis 1 aims at strengthening the regional network of research and technology transfer to companies with the purpose of increasing the ability to bring innovative solutions and products to the market. Through collaborations with researchers, it promotes innovation paths in the strategic areas of the regional production system and strengthens the high-tech network.

The TROPIC project intends to explore a new radioisotope production method through the irradiation of solid targets in which a quantum effect called anti-channelling is exploited. Thanks to this effect, the probability of impact of the particle emitted by the accelerator on a crystalline matrix is much higher than the same dynamic but with a traditional amorphous solid target. This leads to an increase in the yield of nuclear bombardment and thus produces the desired isotope in larger quantities. The project intends to evaluate how much it is possible to save in terms of cost of the enriched material and how much the reaction yield grows in this particular configuration of the target. The ultimate goal is to make the production of these isotopes, extremely interesting from a diagnostic and therapeutic point of view, easier and less expensive.

Comecer enters this project as an industrial partner following a theoretical research activity that has already produced various results published in the past years.  The next step will be the experimental test and the realisation of the first prototype.

Here is a presentation on this project:

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