La Nit Europea de la Investigació se celebra el 26 de septiembre en el Jardí de Vivers de València, junto al Museo de Ciencias Naturales de València, en horario de mañana (10h a 13:30h) y de tarde (17h a 20h). El acceso es libre y gratuito y todas las actividades están orientadas a que el público asistente descubra la ciencia y aprenda con ella de una forma dinámica y divertida.

La Nit Europea de la Investigació está coorganizada por la Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), la delegación del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) en València, la Fundació per al Foment de la Investigació Sanitària i Biomèdica de la Comunitat Valenciana (Fisabio) y por el Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria (INCLIVA).

El CO₂ y su influencia en nuestro planeta

El ITQ (UPV-CSIC) participa con los talleres “El CO₂ y su influencia en nuestro planeta” en los que las personas asistentes conocerán de una forma interactiva y divertida algunos de los conceptos fundamentales de la química. Además, a través de demostraciones prácticas participarán en experimentos en los que aprenderán qué es y cómo se produce el CO₂ y cuáles son los estados de la materia. Cada unas de las cuatro actividades que se realizarán están pensadas para explicar cómo el exceso de CO₂ afecta al cambio climático de nuestro planeta, especialmente, el efecto invernadero y la acidificación del agua.

El objetivo de estos talleres, que realizará el personal investigador y técnico del ITQ (UPV-CSIC), es el de despertar el interés por el medio ambiente y por el respeto hacia el planeta tierra, así como fomentar el aprendizaje a través de la curiosidad y el juego.

Ciència i Canyes

El martes 23 de septiembre empieza una nueva edición de «Ciència i Canyes», el proyecto de cultura científica en el que se realizan charlas y monólogos breves en clave de humor.

En esta ocasión, José Miguel Carceller, investigador del ITQ (UPV-CSIC), impartirá la charla «Darwin se pone la bata: evolución natural vs. evolución dirigida«.

Las otras charlas son

• Del hígado al corazón: detectives moleculares en acción. Vera Francisco – Incliva
• Moléculas radioactivas: cuando la ciencia ve lo que otros no ven. John Orozco Cortés – Fundació Fisabio. Hospital Dr. Peset
• Materia oscura microbiana – Maria Dzunkova. Instituto de Biología Integrativa de Sistemas (I2sysbio)
• Orquestando microbios: de circuitos a sinfonías. Miguel Ángel Fernández-Niño. Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de Alimentos (IATA)

Fecha, hora y ubicación 

• 23/09/2025
• 19:30h
• La Fábrica de Hielo (C/ José Ballester Gozalvo, 37 València)

«Ciència y Canyes» está coorganizado por la Casa de la Ciencia del CSIC en València, la UPV, la UV, Incliva, Fundació Fisabio y la Generalitat Valenciana.

Matea Bacic defenderá su tesis doctoral «Supported well-defined metals as catalysts for industrially-relevant hydrogenation/coupling reactions» 

• 16 de septiembre de 2025 (11:30h)
• Salón de Actos del ITQ (UPV-CSIC)

Más información

Dirección: Antonio Leyva Pérez y Judit Oliver Meseguer

Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Química Sostenible

ITQ Severo Ochoa Lecture

El próximo jueves 24 de julio de 2025 contaremos con el Prof. Thomas Bürgi, department of Physical Chemistry, University of Geneva (Switzerland), quien impartirá la charla “Atomically precises metal clusters: structure, properties and applications”.

• Jueves 24 de julio de 2025 (10h)
• Salón de Actos del ITQ (UPV-CSIC)

“Atomically precises metal clusters: structure, properties and applications”

Chiral nanomaterials have properties that are of interest for applications in chiral technology but also in materials science. In this contribution we will focus on a special class of materials: Monolayer-protected metal clusters. These clusters are atomically precise nanomaterials containing a few to a few hundred metal atoms. Monolayer-protected metal clusters are excellent model systems to understand surface chemical processes and reactivity and they are attractive for applications in sensing, catalysis and medicine. Many of these clusters turn out to be chiral. The chirality arises at different levels, as will be pointed out. These clusters, although stable, turn out to be very dynamic. The latter is evidenced for example by the exchange of metal atoms and ligands between clusters in solution. The dynamic nature of such clusters will be illustrated with several examples.

Prof. Thomas Bürgi

Thomas Bürgi studied chemistry and obtained his PhD in 1995 at the University of Berne (Switzerland). After a postdoc at MIT, he completed his habilitation at ETH Zurich. He became an assistant professor at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland) in 2005 and a full professor at the University of Heidelberg in 2008. In 2010, he moved to the University of Geneva, where he is a professor of physical chemistry. His research focuses on the fundamental aspects and applications of chiral metal clusters, chiroptical spectroscopy, and the development of in-situ spectroscopy.

ITQ Severo Ochoa Lecture

El próximo lunes 21 de julio de 2025 contaremos con el Dr. Paolo Giusto – Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces – quien impartirá la charla “Carbon Nitride Thin Films for Energy Conversion and Beyond”.

• Lunes 21 de julio de 2025 (11h)
• Salón de Actos del ITQ (UPV-CSIC)

Carbon Nitride Thin Films for Energy Conversion and Beyond

The interest in metal-free materials has been recently rising, and structures with target properties and chemical features have significantly widened the application spectrum of this class of materials. Among those, carbon nitride materials, a class of 2D polymeric semiconductor with ideal formula C3N4, have recently attracted much attention especially in photocatalysis. However, up to now, their application in several fields was hindered due to the low homogeneity of the coatings available. Recently, we developed an innovative method to produce carbon nitride thin films with tunable thickness by means of chemical vapor deposition. The as prepared thin films are highly stable, homogeneous, and flat with a very high refractive index, even in the range of diamond. The high homogeneity and conformal deposition of the carbon nitride thin films prepared enabled to use them to develop innovative batch and microfluidic photoreactors, by coating the reactors’ walls, achieving high selectivity and conversion in shorter time. Furthermore, the utilization of carbon nitride thin films further enabled the development of in-operando spectroscopic techniques providing fundamental mechanistic insights and the critical role of surface interactions in key reactions, such as water splitting. Eventually, the use of thin films in energy conversion is still in its infancy, however, it sets the premises for significant improvements in photo-, photoelectro-catalysis, and beyond

Biosketch

Paolo Giusto pursued his Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Colloid Chemistry department, in Potsdam, under the supervision of Prof. Antonietti. After graduating in 2020 and a brief postdoc, he was promoted as Group Leader at the same institute (2021), where he currently leads an international research team of 10+ members. In his position, he is involved in several funded research projects at national, European, and international levels. During this period he also completed an extra-occupational MBA at ESMT Berlin (with Honors). Furthermore, he has been recently invited as a Visiting Fellow to join the department of Chemical Engineering at UNSW Sydney, in the group of Prof. Liming Dai, and he currently holds an Assistant Professor position (visiting) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane (AU). Paolo Giusto’s research focuses on the synthesis of covalent materials and thin films with specific chemical, electronic, and structural properties for applications in energy storage and conversion.