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Vacuum technologies for a responsible future towards the environment
LOCATION: FieraMilano Rho, LEM 4, B Conference Room.
ENTRANCE: EST Entrance. The access to the Conference is free.
REGISTRATION: Participants are adviced to report to the Conference Reception well in advance; at least, 20 minutes before the start of the session.
LANGUAGE: Conference presentations will be held in Italian; simultaneous translation will not be provided.
* Provisional title.
** Invited chair/speaker.
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009 |
11.30am - 1.15pm Vacuum, a protagonist in the research and development of applications that join energy efficiency with environmental compatibility | |
Chair: Alessandro Abbotto (Università di Milano-Bicocca) | |
| Opening of the session and introduction by the Chair |
| New goals for photovoltaics |
| Hydrogen storage, crucial point for its efficient use as energy vector* |
| MgB2 and last-generation superconductors: present applications and possible outlooks for energy transport |
| Question time |
2.00pm - 5.45pm Vacuum, a technology for 'all seasons' of solar energy | |
Chair: Bruno Ferrario (Università di Milano - AIV honorary member) | |
| Opening of the session and introduction by the Chair |
| Thin film solar cells: from laboratories to production lines |
| Concentrated PV: development of high-efficiency solar cells based on multiquantum wells* |
| Dye-sensitized solar cells: the role of molecular design |
| 'Green' PV: dye-sensitized solar cells from CHOSE* |
| Break |
| Deposition of thin films for PV cells and selective coatings for solar thermal collectors |
| Encapsulating and vacuum in solar technologies: connectd problems of working life and proposed solutions |
| Thermodynamic solar: HEMS08, Archimede solar receiver for linear parabolic collectors |
| Debate among the speakers and public question time |
Thursday, November 26th, 2009 |
10.00am - 1.00pm Vacuum technologies and biomaterials: research, applications, developments | |
Chair: Mariano Anderle (Department of Innovation, Research and ICT, Autonomous Province of Trento, Italy) | |
| Opening of the session and introduction by the Chair |
| Surface functionalization via plasma for biomedical applications |
| Sterilization of biomedical materials |
| Question time |
| Break |
| Intersections among vacuum, nanostructures and biomedicine |
| Mass spectrometry of secondary ions in chemical analysis of biological structures |
| Question time |
