ICMAB Periodical Lecture_Joffre Gutiérrez High temperature nanostructured superconductors: a tool for new technologies”_29 Oct_12 pm

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On Thursday 11 October 2018, the programme “Els Matins de TV3”, directed by Lídia Heredia, interviewed researcher Teresa Puig about the superconducting materials, in their section devoted to science, and presented by Daniel Arbós. The section, of more than 18 minutes long, explains what superconducting materials are, what are their main applications, and shows the levitation experiment.
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Dr. Bernat Mundet defended his PhD thesis on “Atomic-scale characterization of structural distortions in perovskite oxide thin films”Monday, 9 October 2018, with great success, surrounded by his friends, family and colleagues! Congratulations!

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On Monday, 24 September, this article appeared in the printed version in the newspaper “El Periódico”, both in the Spanish and Catalan version. The article is written by the journalist Valentina Raffio, and features our SUMAN researcher, Teresa Puig, in the framework of the project #LasCientíficasCuentan, an initiative by CSIC-Brussels and funded by the FECYT. We transcribe here the text.
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Watch here the video of the ULTRASUPERTAPE project, the ERC Advanced Grant project awarded to Teresa Puig, explained here in plain words for everyone to understand!
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The project “Las Científicas Cuentan” is an initiative of the CSIC Delegation in Brussels financed by the FECYT. The aim of the project is to bring basic science to the general public, through the story of women scientists who have been awarded with a ERC project during the past years. From SUMAN, Teresa Puig (ERC-Advanced Grant) participate in the project.
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Prof. Teresa Puig was invited to give a talk on superconducting materials at “Dissabtes de la Física” at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. More than 100 secondary school students listened to her talk, and then experienced the levitating phenomena with some members of her team
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X. Obradors, T. Puig, Z. Li, C. Pop, B. Mundet, N. Chamorro, F. Vallés, M. Coll, S. Ricart, B. Vallejo, F. Pino, A. Palau, J. Gázquez, J. Ros and A. Usoskin, Supercond. Sci. Technol. 2018 044001
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Susagna va fer una excel·lent exposició de les possibilitats i oportunitats que representa la tecnologia, fonamentalment, a partir de l’impuls de la nanotecnologia: “A partir d’àtoms i molècules, bàsicament, les agrupem per obtenir materials, dispositius i, fins i tot, màquines que tenen noves aplicacions i propietats”.
També va explicar que treballen en dimensions inferiors als virus o els anticossos, un segment que ha permès impulsar, per exemple, la denominada superconducció: “Fa 100 anys, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes va descobrir que a temperatures molt baixes s’aconsegueix una superconducció perquè els àtoms, no se sap per què, s’agrupen en parells i no xoquen, el que fa que no es desprengui energia i, per tant, la conducció és més efectiva”.
Ja a finals del segle XX, aquest camp va millorar a partir d’aconseguir aquesta conducció a partir de temperatures molt més altes, el que permet refredar el material només amb nitrogen, molt abundant a l’atmosfera. Aquest fenomen ha impulsat, per exemple, aplicacions com ‘efecte meissner’ –atracció magnètica molt potent- o la ressonància magnètica, considerada la segona gran revolució després dels Raigs ‘X’.
Segons Ricart, doncs, aquest camp té molta projecció i usos tant en el camp de la medicina, l’energia i la tecnologia. I, en el fons, té molt a veure amb els processos naturals, perquè, tal i com ha explicat, la natura està plena de processos nanotecnològics tant a les espècies animals com vegetals. Identificar-los pot derivar en grans oportunitats per l’ésser humà.