Advanced Materials and Technologies for Sustainability - part 2 Academic
17 SEPTEMBER 
16:00 - 17:30
| TT.VIII - Technical Multi-Track with Parallel SYMPOSIA | |||
| Advanced Materials and Technologies for Sustainability - part 2 Academic |
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| Co-organized with Polytechnic of Turin Chairs: Giancarlo CICERO & Andrea LAMBERTI, Polytechnic of Turin and Angelica CHIODONI, IIT, Center for Sustainable Future Technologies - CSFT@POLITO |
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| In recent years, several studies highlighted that advanced nanomaterials have the potential to achieve a breakthrough in the development of novel applications for a sustainable future. This session gathers contributions from both the academic and industrial world to strengthen their synergistic contribution to technological growth for sustainability. In this framework, water treatment processes, as well as CO2 capturing and valorization, are topic of great and actual relevance, and the development of innovative and efficient materials is the key to be successful. Membranes, as applicative example, are fundamental elements for water purification and CO2 separation plants, but their usage is also widespread in fuel cells, batteries and “blue energy” harvesting systems. Notwithstanding their large technological relevance, currently employed membranes suffer from many drawbacks and a further breakthrough in this field might require a complete membrane redesign. Several studies highlighted that advanced materials, and nanomaterials in particular, have the potential to achieve a breakthrough in membranes performances, increasing membrane resistance (mechanical, thermal and chemical resistance) and lifetime, and enhance membrane selectivity. On the other hand, to efficient reuse of carbon dioxide as a raw material to obtain value-added products requires both the development of novel materials able to fast capture and release the CO2, and highly selective, stable, efficient, environmental-friendly and inexpensive catalysts for its electro/photoelectron/thermo catalytic reduction. Planned talks will be on recent results in the topics mentioned above, with a special focus on the fundamental aspects as well as on the technological challenges tackled by the academy and the industry. The session is organized by Polytechnic of Turin and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, in cooperation with the Italian Association for Industrial Research (Airi). The session will be held online (webinar) in two parts, the first (Sep 17th, 14.00-15.30) with a focus on industrial application and the second (Sep 17th, 16.00-17.30) on basic and applied research activities. | |||
| The symposium is part of the workshop WS.III | |||
| TT.VIII.A.1 WS.III.4.1 |
Damien VOIRY - CV |
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| TT.VIII.A.2 WS.III.4.2 |
Mikhael BECHELANY - CV |
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| TT.VIII.A.3 WS.III.4.3 |
Simelys HERNANDEZ - CV |
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| TT.VIII.A.4 WS.III.4.4 |
Evangelos ANGELOPOULOS - CV |
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