Seminars in March 2012
March 2, 2012, 12 p.m. - How Universities Become Rich: Patents or Papers? (José Luis Herce)
A revolution took place in the '80 at the universities in the United States: they became the real owners of their research results and had the possibility to commercialise them. The results were so impressive that the example was followed by universities in the United Kingdom and other countries, including ...
More Email announcementMarch 9, 2012, 12 p.m. - Catalytic multiphase microreactors: design, operation and scale-up (Evgeny Rebrov)
Nowadays, one of the major challenges for the chemical industry is the development of innovative processes with less by product formation, improved product yields and high energy efficiency. Microreactor technology provides unique solutions to meet these requirements. Recent developments in multiphase microstructured reactors, which have become increasingly important in process ...
More Email announcementMarch 16, 2012, 12 p.m. - Emergy incorporation in a LCA perspective (Antonino Marvuglia)
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a standardized methodology used to quantify the environmental impacts of products across their whole life cycle. Nowadays LCA is one of the most accepted and used tools for the environmental assessment of products and services. LCA owns an anthropocentric perspective, since the value of resources ...
More Email announcementMarch 23, 2012, 12 p.m. - From Polymer Nanoparticles to Innovative Materials (Massimo Morbidelli)
One of the major components in the success of nanotechnology is the polymeric nanoparticles. These can be produced with high precision and monodispersity in sizes, which can be as small as 20 nm, using a variety of materials through emulsion polymerization techniques. In order to go from such colloidal systems ...
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