Elena Pinilla Cienfuego and Efren Navarro Moratalla, young researchers of the Institute for Molecular Science of the University of Valencia ( ICMol ) in the Science Park, have just been awarded with the Valencia Idea 2013, in the category of Energy and Environment. The event is aimed at young entrepreneurs aged between 18 and 35.
Valencia IDEA aims to promote young researchers initiative, innovative ideas and, additionally, to support the promotion of R&D through the acknowledgement of those who make research activities that could become products, processes or innovative services , increasing the capacity to generate knowledge applied to the city of Valencia.
This time, the work will be oriented to the extraction of nanomaterials for the energy of the future. "We have created a device that allows a controlled manner to produce materials such as graphene or the like, for their use in the development of next-generation electronic devices, more energetically efficient and environmentally friendly”, said Pinilla, junior researcher in the Molecular Materials Unit of this institute of the University of Valencia . This new method, developed entirely from ICMol, in the Science Park of the academic institution, was recently selected to be patented and selected to be part of the Patents Bank of the Generalitat Valenciana. " We have patented the device and method," and continues "With both are created some materials that can revolutionise a technological generation with applications ranging from electronics, spintronics, photonics and alternative energy, to aeronautics, medicine or pharmaceutical industry."
Elena Pinilla has already published various scientific papers in prestigious international journals in the field of lithography by local oxidation of nanomaterials. He has also participated, along with Efren Navarro, in the design of a new micromechanical exfoliation device, which already has a patent.
Efren Navarro - Moratalla is a research doctor in the same center. His field of work is multidisciplinary, half way between Physics, Chemistry and Engineering. Among the results of their research highlights the design of magnetic superconductings, subject that has already generated several publications in major scientific journals such as Nature, Advanced Materials and Inorganic Chemistry.
Both researchers are part of Eugenio Coronado’s group, director of the Institute of Molecular Science and one of the most influential Spanish chemists of the international scientific scene.
Last update: 3 de october de 2013 12:52.
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