‘Artificial photosynthesis constitutes a promising alternative to change the current energy model’, said Sixto Giménez, coordinator of the first Workshop on Advanced Materials for Solar Fuel Applications that was held at the UJI. In the workshop -that has made possible to join first-rate research groups from the Valencian Community and Catalonia and to establish collaborations [...]
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Head of Communication of the CERN commitment to transparency of scientific research
December 11th, 2012
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The physicist James Gillies, Head of Communication of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), showed the advantages of network management in scientific communication in order to bring research results to society as a whole and said that scientific transparency of institutions is essential. Gillies gave the opening speech of the Workshop on Social Communication [...]
Sound… music or physics?
September 3rd, 2012
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IV Scientific Meeting “El gusto de investigar” [The pleasure of researchin]. Universitat Jaume I-CEFIRE Castellón Prize in the Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry category Sound… music or physics? Maria Álvaro Roures; Gloria Redón Clofent and Alejandro Viciano Molina. Tutor: Desideria Amela IES Penyagolosa. Castelló de la Plana This practice, related to the acoustic area, was aimed [...]
Prize in the Technology category
September 3rd, 2012
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IV Scientific Meeting “El gusto de investigar” [The pleasure of researching]. Universitat Jaume I-CEFIRE Castellón Prize in the Technology category Precison launching of water rockets Alejandro Jesús Alcántara Navarro, Héctor Gavara Llidó, Ángel González Fernández and Marcos Teruel Ferrer Tutor: Manuel Roca IES Llombai. Borriana. Castelló Our objective was to develop a simulator to model [...]
Artificial leaf in order to produce hydrogen in water using only sunlight
June 22nd, 2012
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Scientists and researchers from the Photovoltaic and Optoelectronic Devices group from the Universitat Jaume I, led by Professor Juan Bisquert, have developed, using nanotechnology, a device with semiconductor materials which generate hydrogen independently in water using only sunlight. This technology, which has been named artificial photosynthesis, was inspired by photosynthesis which occurs naturally (a process [...]
