IMDEA Nanociencia celebrates the European Researchers' Night with an open-doors day
29.09.2023
 |
|
Dr. Ana Pizarro welcome the students to IMDEA Nanociencia. |
- Researchers from IMDEA Nanociencia have shown their work to secondary school students.
- Students have been able to discover 9 different investigations, with 3 interactive workshops, 6 visits to laboratories, and take home a kit of scientific experiences.
Madrid, September 29th, 2023. The European Researchers' Night is a pan-European science dissemination project that takes place simultaneously in 340 cities in Europe, from around 30 different countries. Since 2005, it is celebrated on the last Friday of September each year.
From IMDEA Nanociencia we have participated showing some of the research that is carried out in our premises. On this occasion, we have been visited by secondary education students from the Virgen de Europa School (Boadilla). Dr. Ana Pizarro, leader of the Metallodrugs Group at IMDEA Nanoceincia, welcomed the students, introduced them to the concept of 'nanoscience', unknown to many of them, and summarized the main purposes of the research carried out at IMDEA Nanociencia.
Afterwards, the students were able to visit some of the more than 44 laboratories of the institute. Among them, the scanning tunneling microscope laboratory, femtosecond laboratory, spin-resolved spectroscopy laboratory, nanobiotechnology laboratory, and low-dimensional materials chemistry laboratory. Also, they have carried out a workshop on cancer cells staining, and a workshop on advanced optics.
In particular, the students have been able to learn more about the objectives of the TOMATTO project, a project funded by the European Union through the ERC Research Council, which aims to capture the movement of electrons in organic molecules with the ultimate goal of improving the efficiency of solar cells. Students have understood how films are made, and the complexity of making films that record the movement of electrons in molecules. At the end of the workshop, the students took home a kit of scientific experiences based in TOMATTO project.
In the region of Comunidad de Madrid, the European Researchers' Night is promoted by the Ministry of Science, Universities and Innovation and is coordinated by the Madri+d Foundation. TOMATTO project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 951224).
More information:
Contacto
Communication and Dissemination Office at IMDEA Nanociencia
divulgacion.nanociencia [at]imdea.org
Twitter: @imdea_nano
Facebook: @imdeananociencia
Instagram: @imdeananociencia
Source: IMDEA Nanociencia