Vnnanomaterials Innovation

The Scientific Director in VNnanomaterials Innovation, Five Times ERC winner Prof. Nicolosi, gives her advice on what it takes to win an ERC grant… Follow her advice and be follow your ambition!
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What it takes to win an ERC grant Valeria Nicolosi is ERC Research Professor at the School of Chemistry and at the School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin. Her group conducts interdisciplinary…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y66YF8U3ZZM&feature=youtu.be

Prof Valeria Nicolosi's interview with Matt Cooper Listen back to Prof Nicolosi's interview on The Last Word, Today FM with Matt Cooper (24th Feb). Prof Nicolosi talks about her recent ERC Consolidator Grant ...

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/innovation/researcher-in-trinity-college-secures-2-5m-funding-1.2534625

Researcher in Trinity College secures €2.5m funding Prof Valeria Nicolosi’s team is developing new type of extremely long-lasting battery

http://www.irishtimes.com/business/the-appliance-of-3d-science-1.2541253

The appliance of 3D science We are at the beginnings of a science that could develop batteries lasting 50 times longer than they do today

Bright Sparks: Valeria Nicolosi on Nanotechnology

Meet Valeria Nicolosi. She's a nanotechnologist, a professor in the schools of chemistry and physics, a principal investigator in CRANN the nanotechnology institute in Trinity College Dublin and scientific director of VNnanomaterials and Innovation . In this short cut Valeria introduces us to the world of Nanoscience, where smaller is better, stronger, and more flexible.
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The beauty that eyes cannot see.
What a Wonderful World at the micron-scale...

Batteries are energy storage devices able to deliver high energy densities (meaning that can store a lot of energy), to the expenses of power density (meaning that they usually charge and discharge very slowly). We have lately seen the bad side of this technology: an All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 flight made an emergency landing at Logan International Airport in the USA after a battery fault caused fire, the Airbus A380 had similar electrical problems caught at an early stage and a UPS plane crash landed with its cargo of lithium-ion batteries on fire causing 2 deaths from asphyxiation. All these accidents were caused by the high corrosion, toxicity and flammability of the electrolytes used, coupled with the high instability of lithium under normal conditions.

What you can see in this photograph is a flexible, transparent all-solid-state battery, the size of a smart phone. This battery can be easily handled without spillage of hazardous liquid, because of low internal corrosion. It has flexibility in packaging and will withstand much wider wide temperature ranges and will be essential for use in harsh environments like military and aerospace applications, as well as in portable technologies (phones and computers can release a lot of heat)!

Have a look here a for a second…….What do you think this is?

This is an Ultracapacitor or Supercapacitor, flexible and transparent.
Ultracapacitors, also called a supercapacitors, are energy storage devices capable of holding hundreds of times more electrical charge quantity than a standard capacitor. This characteristic makes ultracapacitors useful in devices that require relatively little current and low voltage. In some situations, an ultracapacitor can take the place of a rechargeable low-voltage battery.
Supercapacitors, can usually hold one tenth of the electricity per unit of volume or weight as compared to batteries but can achieve much higher power densities, meaning that the can be charged and discharged extremely quickly (within fraction of seconds).
An excellent example of the use of an ultracapacitor can be found in so-called electrical smart meters. These devices, unlike their electromechanical counterparts, store information about home and business electrical power and energy consumption, and contain no moving parts. In the event of a power failure, an ultracapacitor allows the meter to send a final status communication to the utility company, preventing data loss and the confusion that could result. While a rechargeable backup battery can serve the same purpose, most electrochemical batteries fail at extremely low temperatures, such as commonly occur in the winter in much of the United States and virtually all of Canada. Ultracapacitors keep working at temperatures far below freezing.
The current generation of supercapacitors finds applications in various markets, including consumer (digital cameras, portable computers, GPS, hand-held devices, toys, etc), traction (diesel engine starting, security doors opening, voltage drop compensation, etc), automotive (power steering, valve controls, starter generators, regenerative braking, hybrid electric drive, active seat belt restraints, etc.), industrial (uninterrupted power supply, wind turbine pitch systems, power transient buffering, elevator micro-controller power backup, security doors, forklifts, cranes, and telecommunications) and aerospace (to power emergency actuation systems for doors and evacuation slides in airliners.

Prof. Valeria nicolosi, who is the Scientific Director of VNnanomaterials and a Professor in Trinity College Dublin, was awared a WMB Woman in Technology Prize in 2013.

The Scientific Director of VNnanomaterials speaks at the World Economic Forum. Spend 5mins of your time and know more about 2D Materials and Graphene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmA1rtoqSWk

IdeasLabs 2013 - Valeria Nicolosi - Next Generation Two Dimensional Nano Materials http://www.weforum.org/ Professor Valeria Nicolosi, from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, says graphene is a "wonder material", with promises of delivering f...

Il Venerdi di Republica also talked about Valeria Nicolosi (Scientific Director of VNnanomaterials) and her cutting-edge research in nanotechnology.

Professional article in March 2015
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