Nanoscience and future energy technologies

How are we going to satisfy future energy demand? Has nanoscience any role to play?Professor Félix Ynduráin will give us some clues about these questions. After analyzing the evolution of energy consumption in the world and the trends for the future, he will discuss the need for new developments. In particular, he will present some examples where nanoscience is crucial, such as nuclear and photovoltaic energy, hydrogen usage, CO₂and energy storage, electric transport, and so on. Pedro Miguel Etxenike, president of nanoGUNE, will introduce the speaker.

Félix Yndurain is Professor of the Department of Condensed Matter Physics at the Autonomous University of Madrid. He has a long and distinguished research career in the field of Condensed Matter Physics. He spent four years in the Physics Department of the University of California in Berkeley. He also spent sabbatical stays at theIBMResearch Laboratory in Yorktown Heights, at the University of Paris, and at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart. In 1995, he received the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation award in Germany. Yndurain was the Director-General ofCIEMAT(Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas) during six years, as well as Secretary-General of Science and Technology Policy of the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the spanish Government.

Language: The lecture will be in Spanish but a simultaneous translation service into English and Basque will be available.

Registration: Attendance to the conference is free (limited to capacity) but registration is required.

Visit

Within the OpenLab event we will visit nanoGUNE’s state-of-the-art laboratories. nanoGUNE’s researchers will explain how we can explore the secrets of the nanoworld with highly sophisticated equipment; images of the building blocks of matter (atoms) will be shown as well.

If you are interested in joining the visit please follow this link. Registration is required.