The Universitat Jaume I-Empresa Foundation coordinated a meeting at the headquarters of INAM, the Institute of Advanced Materials of the Universitat Jaume I, in which researchers Juan Bisquert and Francisco Fabregat made a presentation on the Institute's lines of action and the projects they are carrying out at European and international level.
Researchers Juan Bisquert and Sixto Giménez participate in the A-LEAF project, one of the largest research projects on artificial photosynthesis funded by the European Commission, with nearly 8 million euros.
The meeting, promoted by Nela Gomez, responsible for the Eurofue Office, was attended by the businessman Luis Battle, Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the FUE-UJI and its Director of Administration, Gloria Serra.
The heads of the Institute of Advanced Materials of the UJI presented their experience in the European H2020 project in which they participate as partners, the A-LEAF project ( www.a-leaf.eu/ ) which started 6 months ago.
He A-LEAF project The aim of the research is to design, build and validate a photoelectrochemical device capable of transforming CO2 into value-added products in a sustainable and cost-effective way to be transferred to European industry. The basic idea is to reproduce the process of plant photosynthesis to obtain clean fuels using sunlight, water and CO2 as raw materials. In this way, the research will contribute to the transition from the current energy model, based on fossil fuels, to a sustainable and environmentally friendly model centred on solar energy.
He A-LEAF project proposes a strongly multidisciplinary approach encompassing materials science, computational physics and chemistry, surface physics, device engineering and advanced characterization techniques.
The project is coordinated by Prof. José Ramón Galán-Mascarós, from the Catalan Institute for Chemical Research (ICIQ), and involves 13 associated institutions from eight countries: ETH Zurich, Leiden University, IMDEA Nanociencia, EPFL, Technische Universität Wien, Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, Imperial College, Technical University of Darmstadt and Forschungszentrum Jülich, Université de Montpellier, INSTM and COVESTRO.
