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16-17 December 2021

Barcelona (Spain)

The workshop on Environmental Monitoring and Remediation brought together leading academic scientists, researchers, scholars and industry representatives to exchange and share their experiences and results on all the aspects involved in pollutant detection, monitoring, scavenging and degradation. The workshop topics also covered the life-cycle of nanomaterials as potential pollutants and their impact on the ecosystem. This Action was held within the framework of the framework of the 2018-2021 Excelencia Severo Ochoa Programme.

Where: Casa Convalescència and Zoom

This workshop allowed the opportunity to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns in the field, the practical challenges encountered, and the solutions adopted. Furthermore, the industrial vision was of great value to bring focus to the academic research lines.

Workshop Programme

16 December
Session 1: Pollutant Detection, Monitoring Removal and Degradation
09:00 – 09:15Welcome
09:15 – 09:50Firat Guder (Imperial London College) 
Measuring and predicting soil nitrogen with point-of-use sensors and machine learning
09:50 – 10:25Jelena Radjenovich (ICRA) 
Electrocatalytic remediation of contaminated water: will going nano be the technology enabler?
10:25 – 10:50Salvio Suárez (ICN2) 
Sustainable approaches for environmental challenges
10:50 – 11:05Amador Pérez (ICN2) 
LightNET: An artificial photosynthesis for roads that sucks CO2.
11:05 – 11:30break
11:30 – 12:05María Bernechea (ARAID-INMA-Unizar-CSIC) 
Strategies to activate photocatalysts under solar light for pollutant removal in wastewater
12:05 – 12:20Gubakhanim Shahnazarova (ICN2) 
Ferromagnetic nanoreactors for controlled ROS generation in wastewater treatment
12:20 – 12:35Jana Oliveras (ICN2) 
Synthesis and application study of Fe3O4 /graphene hybrid for water remediation
12:35 – 12:50Marianna Sledzinska (ICN2) 
Reversing the humidity response of MoS2 - and WS2 -based sensors using transition metal salts
12:50 – 13:05Liming Hu (ICN2) 
Monitoring generic Escherichia coli based on lateral flow biosensor for water fecal pollution assessment
13:05 – 13:20Celia Fuentes (ICN2) 
Paper-based sustainable biosensors
13:20 – 13:35Anna Herrera-Chacon (UAB) 
Molecularly imprinted polymers for chemical sensing in environmental applications
13:35 – 13:50Lei Zhao (ICN2) 
Printed electrodes for bacteria detection based on a smartphone platform
Lunch break
Session 2: Nanosafety Assessment and life-cycle assessment
15:00 – 15:35Ciro Salcines (University of Cantabria)
Nanomaterials exposure: from laboratory air to volcanic ash
15:35 – 16:10Socorro Vázquez (Centro Tecnológico LEITAT)
Towards safe and sustainable by design nanomaterials: life cycle considerations
16:10 – 16:25Óscar Hernando Moriones (ICN2)
Dual labelled core-shell polystyrene nanoparticles with plasmon-enhance properties as a model for the risk assessment of nano/micro-plastics
16:25 – 16:40Qiuyue Yang (ICN2)
An autonomous sensing boat for multiple heavy metals analysis in natural waters utilizing anodic stripping voltammetry
16:40 – 17:15Daniel Vildozo (Condorchem Envitech)
Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) approaches in industrial wastewater treatment
17 December
Session 3: Industrial vision to bring focus to the academic research lines
10:00 – 10:35Ricard Mora (ESOLVE)
Sensorizacion aplicada a la descontaminación del subsuelo
10:35 – 11:10Inhar Imaz (ICN2)
Metal-organic frameworks based composites for water purification
11:10 – 11:40break
11:40 – 12:15Miquel Blasi (CEO E-watts Technologies)
Procesos electroquímicos y nanomateriales en el tratamiento de fluentes industriales
12:15 – 12:50Miquel Pujades (ADASA Sistemas)
Nanotechnology challenges in water quality measurement
12:50 – 13:20Round table: From Science to Society: boosting science-industry interaction
M. Pujades, M. Blasi, P. Pomposiello, I. Imaz
13:20 – 13:30Closure

Organisers

Jessica Casandra Ramírez, Doctoral Student