The Institute of Physicochemistry of Materials, Environment and Energy (Spanish: Instituto de Química-Física de Materiales, Medio Ambiente y Energía; INQUIMAE) is a chemistry research centre with double dependence shared among the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and Argentina's national research council CONICET.

It is located at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences Pabellón II building, in the Ciudad Universitaria complex.

Contributing thus to technological development, from its fundamental aspects up to their implementation, while focusing on local, national and regional relevance issues.

[2] Its first director was Dr. Roberto Fernández Prini along with Dr. José Antonio Olabe as vicedirector.

[4] In 2007 the seminaries classroom was named Roberto Fernández Prini to honor its founding director.