Seminarium CeNT (Poniedziałek, 31 sierpnia, 2026, 11:00): Substitute materials for sustainable Energy Technologies

20 08 2026

Kategoria: Seminaria CeNT, Strona główna

Centrum Nowych Technologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego zaprasza na seminarium::

prof. Teresa Gatti

Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Tytuł: Substitute materials for sustainable Energy Technologies
Data: Poniedziałek, 31 sierpnia, 2026
Czas: 11:00
Prowadzący: prof. Silvio Osella

Seminarium odbędzie się w audytorium 00.142 w CeNT, Banacha 2c

Abstrakt: Modern technologies in the fields of energy supply and electronics rely on a variety of highly specialized functional materials. Nowadays many of these consist of chemical elements whose limited availability may prevent a mass production of the respective devices or systems. Simple estimates for photovoltaics and thermoelectrics show that using these technologies on the required scale, i.e. Tera- Watts of electric power, will be strongly limited due to resource shortages and high production costs. The development of so-called “substitute materials”, based on abundant or “non- critical” chemical elements (“elements of hope”), as well as a general reduction of the material demand for a certain technology are required to meet this challenge. Current research applies these strategies to conversion, storage, as well as transport of energy.

Teresa Gatti is Full Professor of Chemistry for Applied Technologies at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. She was a previous Group Leader at the Center for Materials Research of the Justus Liebig University Giessen (Germany), where she maintains the permanent role of affiliated researcher. She is recipient of the 2021 European Research Council Starting Grant with a project on Janus 2D materials, of a 2025 ERC PoC grant on 2D-materials based piezoresistive blood pressure sensors and 2026 ERC PoC grant on lead-free materials for indoor photovoltaics.