Workshop “Material’s for today’s Energy challenges”
The Surface Science and Catalysis group of the Chemical Sciences Department of the University of Padova is happy to announce the organization of the international Workshop “Material’s for today’s Energy challenges” that will be held on June 3rd-4th 2019, In Padova.

This workshop aims at bringing together international scientists from all domains of Materials Science for energy related applications and provide a forum for sharing views and ideas about the most advanced research lines in the Materials-Energy nexus.
 
More information can be found on the website: 

https://sites.google.com/view/materials-for-todays-energy-ch/home 
 
The registration is free in order to encourage master and PhD students to partecipate.
 
The deadline for abstract submission is March 30th and for the registration April 25th
Two new challenging project started on January 1st 2018-01-16
Critical Raw material ElectrocatalystS replaCement ENabling Designed pOst-2020 PEMFC
CRESCENDO will develop highly active and long-term stable electrocatalysts of non-platinum group metal (nonPGM) catalysts for the PEMFC cathode using a range of complementary and convergent approaches, and will redesign the cathode catalyst layer so as to reach the project target power density and durability requirements of 0.42 W/ cm2 at 0.7 V, and 1000 h with less than 30% performance loss at 1.5 A/cm2 after 1000 h under the FC-DLC, initially in small and ultimately full-size single cells tested in an industrial environment on an industrially scaled-up catalyst. The proposal includes the goal of developing non-PGM or ultra-low PGM anode catalysts with greater tolerance to impurities than current low Pt-loaded anodes. It will develop and apply advanced diagnostics methods and tests, and characterisation tools for determination of active site density and to better understand performance degradation and mass transport losses. The proposal builds on previous achievements in non-PGM catalyst development within all of the university and research organisation project partners. It benefits from the unrivalled know-how in catalyst layer development at JMFC and the overarching expertise at BMW in cell and stack testing, and in guiding the materials development to align with systems requirements. For more information visit: http://www.crescendo-fuelcell.eu/
The project is focused on the development of innovative 2D materials aiming at two main topics of extreme actuality, i.e. sustainable energy conversion devices (fuel cell, batteries, supercapacitors) and catalytic processes for solar fuel generation (e.g. hydrogen from water and commodities from carbon dioxide). To this end, GINSENG will focus the research activities on 2D Graphene Related Materials (GRMs, e.g. chemical modified graphene, h-BN, transition metal chalcogenides, carbides, oxides…), both developing new methods for their preparation in the form of 2D and 3D nanocomposites, and for their structural and functional characterization up to the addressed applications. The project layout encompasses both basic science and technological issues, promoting the technology transfer to the market. The Consortium was set up on the basis of existing bilateral collaborations, but also enlarging to other partners on the basis of excellence criteria to integrate resources and knowledge. One of the GINSENG’s goals is to support and promote the exchange of permanent and young researchers and raising their scientific qualification, so putting the basis for joint applications to international research projects in the field of Advanced Materials for Energetics and Catalysis.  
 
The Consortium involves a total of 19 staff members with a total of human resources of 86 person/months for the whole 3 years project. GINSENG project involves the following research teams: from Italy, University of Padova (UNIPD, Coordinator), CNR (CNR-ISOF and CNR-IPCB), University of Sassari (UNISS), Italian Institute of Technology (IIT); from China, Peking University (PU, Coordinator), Sichuan University (SU), Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMR, CAS). 
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