NanoElectroCatalysis Laboratory
“Yes, my friends, I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen wich constitute it, used single or together, will furnish an inexhaustible sourse of heat and light, of an intensity of wich coal is not capable… I bilieve, then, that when the deposits of coal are exhausted we shall heat and warm ourselves with water. Water will be the coal of the future.” Jules Verne: The Mysterious Island,1874
NanoElectroCatalysis laboratory operates in the Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquímicas y Aplicadas (INIFTA), an institute that depends of National Councilium of research (CONICET) and the Chemistry department at the University of La Plata (UNLP), located in La Plata, Argentina.
In our laboratory, we develop and explore systems at the nanoscale in order to understand fundamental electro-catalytic processes associated in fuel cells and water splitting technologies. Gaining the knowledge at the atomic and molecular level of how a good catalyst works allows us to improve, design and engineer new catalyst systems. Our research involve preparation of the design catalyst, characterization by a wide range of surface techniques, and studying of the electrocatylic performance by both experimental and theory tools.
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New laboratory for the development of renewable energies in the INIFTA - La Plata
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CONICET - La Plata
Inauguration of a laboratory that will be at the forefront of the search for new energies
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2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
...to J. Goodenough, S. Whittingham and A. Yoshino “for the development of Lithium-ion battery”
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2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
...is awarded to E. Charpentier and J. A. Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing”
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