• 15/03/2025 – Spray coating is scaled up:
through the NewSkin OITB and CPP grant, Futurechromes, in collaboration with LEITAT, moves the first steps for the scaling up of the spray coating technique for the deposition of Futurechromes photochromic formulations. Promising tests were made onto glass (100 x 70 cm) and PET (100 x 15 cm).
This achievement was possible thanks to the grant Colaboración Público-Privada (CPP), CPP2021-008883, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, and by the EU Next GenerationEU/Plan de recuperación, transformación y resiliencia (PRTR).
• 10/03/2025 – Great thanks to the NewSkin Open Innovation Test Bed (OITB)
who selected Futurechromes as case study. Within this EU platform, and with the help of LEITAT Technological Centre we had the opportunity to spray coat our photochromic coatings on both glass substrate, for smart windows application, and flexible polyethylene terephthalate, which opens the door to retrofittable window films, helmet visors, green houses, etc. The test bed project showed that the technique is not only feasible, but also provides very promising results, achieving quite good materials transparency while preserving the photochromic properties. This collaboration has pushed our technology one step forward towards its industrialization.
This achievement was also supported by the grant Colaboración Público-Privada (CPP), CPP2021-008883, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, and by the EU Next GenerationEU/Plan de recuperación, transformación y resiliencia (PRTR). Thanks to the involved team of Futurechromes, ICN2 and Idonial
If you want to know more about this project, see the interview of Futurechromes members here:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/newskinoitb_h2020-newskinoitb-surfacefinishing-activity-7290093233085313024-fX5a?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAnkRT8BvDrQvDvsoPBYH0caurbVJ9evSFg
• 05/02/2025 – Futurechromes is glad to welcome two new internship students:
Gerard Matas Miras and Grau Martín, from the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology degree (UAB). During their internship they will help Futurechromes team in improving the photochromic performances of the films and coatings and to obtain larger scale smart window film prototypes. Welcome Gerard and Grau.
• 30/01/2025 – Futurechromes acknowledges Alejandro García Valdivia
for his work in its internship, during which he successfully contributed to the achievement of darker films in the activated state and the enhancement of ΔOD of thin films obtained from a new photochromic coating formulation. His results are very important for Futurechromes development.
• 24/12/2024 – Futurechromes was glad to pitch at the VI Secpho Investor’s forum.
This time the experience was different, it was in Koonstel metaverse!
• Futurechromes at the Start-up day
Futurechromes, represented by Claudio Roscini, showcased its innovative smart window film technology at the Start-Up Day organized by Esade Alumni and Banco Sabadell (BStartup) on November 14, 2025. The event provided an excellent opportunity to connect with other inspiring and successful stories, groundbreaking ideas, and cutting-edge technologies. We are honored to have been invited to actively participate to such a prestigious event.
• Futurechromes international @ XPANSE 2024 (Abu Dhabi)
Futurechromes is glad to have actively participated @XPANSE, November 20-22 in Abu Dhabi, hosted by ADQ. #AbuDhabi #ADQ.
XPANSE is the world’s most influential exponential tech event, bringing together 2,500 key decision-makers from industry, academia, government, and investment to access cutting-edge insights on exponential technologies like #QuantumComputing, #Genomics, hashtag#AGI, #AdvancedMaterials, and more. #ExponentialTech #FutureTech.
We are proud to have been one of the 66 spinoff pitching at the event and to have exposed our prototypes in our dedicated booth.
Special thanks to Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2) and Pablo Pomposiello Miravent for guesting us at XPANSE in Abu Dhabi.
Known for its stunning glazed skyscrapers, high average temperatures, and year-round intense sunlight, Abu Dhabi presents unique challenges in visual and thermal comfort—challenges that Futurechromes technologies are designed to address!
Thanks to the organizers for giving us such an opportunity to broaden our network in the middle east.
• Futurechromes finalist at the MAV day
We are delighted to announce that our project focused on the development of sustainable photochromic coatings — designed to enhance visual and thermal comfort while driving energy savings — has been selected as a finalist at MAV 2024, held on November 29th in Gavà, near Barcelona.
This groundbreaking initiative, which originated from technology developed by the Nanosfun Research Group, is now spearheaded by Futurechromes S. L. S.L. in close collaboration with our long-standing partner, the Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2). The project also benefits from the expertise of Leitat Technological Center, IDONIAL Centro Tecnológico, ITENE, UAB and a host of other public and industrial partners.
Together, we are advancing the performance of these materials by focusing on long-term stability, scalability, and enhanced photochromic properties.
We would like to take this opportunity to extend our heartfelt gratitude to our team and all our past and present partners for their invaluable contributions to this endeavor.
Part of this project is being developed within the framework of the SOLAR project, supported by grant CPP2021-008883, funded by the MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR. This phase is being carried out in collaboration with IDONIAL Centro Tecnológico and the Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2).
• Futurechromes at Innovation Day Energia 2024
On November 21, 2024, Futurechromes was proudly invited to attend the Innovation Day Energia 2024, hosted in Barcelona by the Catalan Energy Efficiency Cluster (CEEC), the Institut de Recerca en Energia de Catalunya (IREC), the Xarxa R+D+I Energy for Society (XRE4S) and the Institut Català d’Energia (ICAEN). This event convened over 150 professionals to explore cutting-edge solutions in energy storage and sustainable buildings. Futurechromes, represented by Aleix Carrascull Marin, had the opportunity to present the technology related to its photoresponsive smart window films, underlining its commitment to innovation on sustainability and energy-saving materials.
The event provided a unique platform for collaboration, with discussions ranging from green hydrogen to AI-driven energy management.
• Futurechromes S.L. was among the 10 selected companies
to attend and present its technology at the very first edition of the Barcelona Activa CONNECTIO Pitch, focused on sustainability-related solutions! The participation to this event on June 12th, corroborates once more our implication on sustainability, with our technology, based on transparent self-regulating photochromic films, positioning as a promising solution to improve comfort and energy consumption efficiency in buildings.
• We congratulate and acknowledge Lucía Luque Benítez
for successfully achieving her internship on photochromic formulations for transparent coatings and printable inks. Below is an example demonstrating reversible photochromic behaviour of the printed sample containing different photochromic formulations applied on different sections
• Futurechromes is proud to announce that, for the first time,
we have successfully installed “Adhesive Smart Photochromic Window Films on the train windows operated by Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC)”. The train service line passes through the Vallès Occidental in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. This exciting achievement is part of the “Vagó de la Ciència” initiative, a collaboration between UAB and FGC, which transforms a train carriage into an immersive learning experience and further to provide citizens knowledge regarding the scientific transformations happening in day to day life. This carriage is adorned with scientific facts and curiosities on a selected topic, along with QR codes that offer access to podcasts and more in-depth information.
This year is the 2nd edition of the Vagó de la Ciència, the focus is on raising awareness about sustainability, climate change, and CO2 emission reduction. As our company values are deeply aligned with these aspects and is a part of the UAB campus, Futurechromes has contributed to this initiative by providing innovative technology i.e., photochromic window films. These films are designed to regulate solar heat gain, reducing the need for air conditioning and ventilation systems in both buildings and vehicles, ultimately helping in lowering CO2 emissions.
The films will remain applied to the carriage windows for an entire academic year, providing a real-world environment for testing this pilot prototype and gathering crucial data on the material’s performance and durability under varying weather conditions. This remarkable opportunity allows Futurechromes to validate its technology in a REAL setting while contributing to a broader conversation about sustainability and environmental responsibility.
The development of the window films has been carried out along the projects: SOLAR, supported by the grant CPP2021-008883 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR
• Futurechromes is on the path of making significant strides in its journey to scale up!
With the help of ITENE technology centre, we have accomplished extruded films for the very first time using our innovative technology. This method ensures good transparency and, of course, faster photochromism than conventional extruded photochromic films. In fact, now we can make up to 20 m long rollable photochromic extruded films!!
Thanks to the Bionanopolys Open Innovation Test Bed (ITENE, CIDAUT, AXIA), which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement No. 953206.
• 10 Years of Innovation @ Futurechromes S.L.
A decade revolutionizing the Smart Glass Market. On this day in 2014, Futurechromes S.L. was born from groundbreaking nanotechnology with the mission to transform the smart glass industry. For the past decade, we have worked tirelessly to meet the commercial demands for photochromic products in various sectors or different applications.
A Journey of Excellence. What an incredible journey it has been! We have collaborated with amazing partners, customers, and dedicated individuals who have shared our mission, vision and values. As we look ahead, the future promises even greater (the future seems even more promising). We continue to innovate and improve our materials to integrate our cutting-edge technologies into commercial photochromic products—whether it is inks, coatings, window glasses for buildings and vehicles, lenses, and beyond.
We extend our deepest gratitude to everyone who has been part of this journey. Thanks to technology centers, companies, investors, and especially the past and present team of Futurechromes. Your support and collaboration have made this incredible journey possible.
The Best is Yet to Come, we look forward to continuing our innovation and leadership in the smart glass market across a broader spectrum ensuring we remain at the forefront of this evolving industry. Stay tuned for more exciting developments as we push the boundaries of what is possible.
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Happy 10th Anniversary, Futurechromes S.L.
The Futurechromes Team
• We congratulate and acknowledge Bruno Gomez Cosco for successfully achieving his internship target
for exploring various possibilities of our technology in fabrics and for further opportunities in the textile industry. Below a proof of concept has been mentioned which shows how a piece of 100 % cotton fabric containing Futurechromes technology turns dark when exposed to sunlight and returns to original color in absence of sunlight.
• The team of Futurechromes participated in Mobile World Congress
– MWC Barcelona 2024 held at Fira Barcelona Gran Via from 27th February to 29th February to present its innovative technology and expanding networks!
• Futurechromes, as one of the spinoffs of Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2)
of Nanosfun research group was selected among the 5 finalists of the 6th Esade Alumni Real Estate Challenge organized by Clikalia. Futurechromes presented its photochromic technology as promising solution for the upcoming future building smart windows, to reduce costs associated to the cooling systems in buildings!
• Futurechromes participated at the “Fira de la innovació” held at UAB on 17th October 2023.
Our CEO, Claudio Roscini presented the technology highlighting some of the key objectives towards sustainability, environmental, health and comfort aspects combating the societal challenges. This event was named as UAB Innovation Week with the ambition of bridging the gap between the technological centres at the University and the local industry.
• Futurechromes thinks bigger through the EU-funded Bionanopolys platform:
The Horizon 2020 project Bionanopolys unites 27 scientific and industrial partners from all over Europe to offer materials with an improved performance for packaging, textile, agriculture, cosmetics and hygiene, pharma or food. The consortium, which is coordinated by ITENE, is developing an Open Innovation Test Bed for innovative bionanomaterial development in Europe. To speed up the introduction of biobased nano-enabled materials into the market, Bionanopolys creates a network of 14 pilot plants and their complementary services. Five pilot plants focus on the development of bionanomaterials from biomass, three pilot plants are dedicated to bionanocomposites and six plants aim at manufacturing bio-based nanoproducts in order to reach a wide range of applications in different sectors. The service portfolio is offered to companies and research groups in the field and calls for a joint approach to pave the way for a greener future for us and following generations. www.bionanopolys.eu
• Futurechromes has successfully submitted for a NewSkin demo-case project,
Futurechromes has successfully submitted for a NewSkin demo-case project, which has been approved and is now running. Because of the promising technologies and the broad possibility of applications, our spinoff has been selected by the EU-funded NewSkin Open Innovation Test Bed (OITB) platform to make a step forward towards industrialisation.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 862100 (NewSkin) and will be carried out in collaboration with NewSkin OITB service providers LEITAT and KIT.
NewSkin will help Futurechromes to scale-up the fabrication process of its core technology related to nanocapsules-based photochromic films and to validate the resistance of the films under real weather conditions. With this project, Futurechromes will finally explore another scaled-up approach for the nanocapsules-based films production, beyond the lab-scale, marking another milestone towards the industrialisation of our fast-responsive and highly stable photochromic films.
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• Futurechromes pitching at the NEXUS Innovation Program:
Futurechromes was selected to participate to the NEXUS Innovation Program. Thanks to this program Futurechromes had the opportunity to explore the advantages of its photochromic films-based Nanotechnology in Greenhouses! Expanding horizons in the field of Agriculture Technology. The end of the program was celebrated at the UAB on 26th October 2023, where our business developer Dr. Luz Carime Gil pitched new ideas showcasing Futurechromes technology.
• We congratulate and acknowledge José Luís Ortolá Yano
for successfully achieving his internship target for company-related projects such as large-scale production of photochromic nanocapsules (300 g), a step forward towards industrialization and terminating his contract on 01.08.2023.
• We are glad to announce that Bruno Gomez Coso
has joined our team as an internship student and will be involved in company-related projects and brand prototypes. Welcome Bruno to the team!
Bruno Gomez Cosco – Internship Student
• Dr. Claudio Roscini, the CEO of Futurechromes
presented the technology & it´s journey of discovery & innovation at the NanoDAY ClústerMAV on 9th October 2023.
• Expoquimia and Equiplast are International events that took place in the Fira de Barcelona
with the objective of strengthening the chemistry and the plastics and rubber sector. The event was celebrated this year from 30 May and 2 June 2023.
Futurechromes team was there to showcase our technology and build networking! We shared a booth of the Advanced Materials Cluster of Catalunya (Clúster MAV) with some other research institues of Catalunya.
• One of our technical developers, Dr. Sohini Sinha with Dr. Kumara Cordero from ICN2
had participated in a competition and won one of the prizes in the 3rd edition of Scientific Project Management from April to June 2023, as part of Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) course works organised by the BIST. They pitched the BIO-SWIN project aimed at developing a bio-based innovative technology for a greener world to accelerate and bring new ideas to the on-going project of SOLAR.
• Jornada d’ecosistema de transferència i innovació en energia was held at UAB casa de Convalesciéncia
where Dr. Sohini Sinha pitched Futurechromes technology and development plan for the near future keeping in mind the potential consumers and the energy saving market. This event was organized by IREC – Institut de Recerca en Energia de Catalunya, as part of XRE4S Network and TransHEner2 projects.
Later, the Ajuntament de Barcelona presented the initiatives within Barcelona Innovation Coast, the Department of Research and Universities explained the industrial doctorates, the AGAUR . to show the latest developments in transfer programs, as well as speakers from BeAble Capital, Mobile World Capital Barcelona and business angels were present.
• We are glad to announce that Dr. Luz Karime Gil has joined our team as a Business developer.
She will be involved in the research project SOLAR, supported by the grant CPP2021-008883 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR. This project is in collaboration with Idonial technology center and ICN2, it is focused on the development of scalable and stable photochromic nanomaterials, for smart windows application. Welcolme Luz to the team!
• We are glad to announce that José Luís Ortolá Yano has joined our team as an internship student
and will be involved in company-related projects and brand prototypes. Welcome José Luís to the team!
• Kick-off meeting of the SOLAR project (Colaboración Público Privada), participated by the three partners of the project:
• Futurechromes (Dr. Luz Carime Gil, Aleix Carrascull)
• ICN2 (Dr. Claudio Roscini, Prof. Daniel Ruiz-Molina, Dr. Sohini Sinha, Claudia Nieva, Jordi Reverte)
• Idonial (Dr. Amador Menendez Velazquez)
This event was held at ICN2-Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology on 4th April 2023. We thank all the participants, especially Dr. Amador Menéndez Velázquez for joining us!
• Fast responsive photochromic nanomaterials as transparent films, coatings and printed patterns.
These and other product prototypes (e.g. smart window films) were presented PUZZLE X™ !
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxB08IRtzHQ
• In the event of promoting network of companies created in the campus of UAB,
parc de recerca UAB (PRUAB) had organised an informal meeting called “Xarxa d’empreses” with the aim of spreading knowledge and promoting collaborations. The event was held in the campus UAB on 27th January 2023. Among different spin-offs from CSIC, UAB and around the campus, Futurechromes S. L. had also participated in this event. It was a good opportunity to speak about the company and its main goal to develop highly transparent and long-lasting UV-responsive photoprotective coatings based on photochromic nanomaterials which will be used for the applications such as smart windows, ophthalmic lenses, sportswear and fashion products. We are looking forward to more of these kinds of networking workshops!
• Futurechromes is glad to announce the new collaboration with the prestigious Elisava, Barcelona School of Design and Engineering.
This collaborative project aims to open new opportunities to novel commercial products for the advanced photochromic nanomaterials developed with Futurechromes technology. The project will be carried out by the students Marina Ortiz Villena and David Riol Garcia, supervised by Prof. Jessica Fernandez Cano (Elisava) and Aleix Carrascull (Futurechromes), and Coordinated by Prof. Cristina Taverner (Elisava) and Dr. Claudio Roscini (Futurechromes).
• Dr. Sohini Sinha started the researcher position at ICN2
our long-term partner, for the collaborative project SOLAR (Colaboración Público-Privada, CPP2021-008883), funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, and by the EU Next GenerationEU/Plan de recuperación, transformación y resiliencia (PRTR), and coordinated by Futurechromes. She will develop new photochromic nanoparticles and coatings, to consolidate Futurechromes technology in smart windows application.
• Futurechromes S. L. is going to lead the project SOLAR
– Development of advanced photochromic materials for solar light autoregulation – in collaboration with the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) and Idonial TechnologyCentre.
The project belongs to the project call Colaboración Público-Privada (CPP), CPP2021-008883, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, and by the EU Next GenerationEU/Plan de recuperación, transformación y resiliencia (PRTR).
The SOLAR project CPP2021-008883 funded by:
This collaborative project will be focused on the development of highly transparent and long-lasting UV-responsive photoprotective coatings based on photochromic nanomaterials. These will be developed to be used in future smart windows. These materials should allow to improve comfort and energy efficiency in buildings.
