Three full and exciting days await participants! Please remember to register
9:00 – 9:30 Welcome address: Angelo Vaccari, Patrizia Brigidi - Delegate of the Rector for European Research; Aldo Roda Coordinator of the PhD programme in Chemistry
9:30-10:15 Find your way. Creativity and Innovation in Chemistry Vincenzo Balzani (Bologna University )
10:15-11:15 Creativity: principles and applications Giovanni Emanuele Corazza (UNIBO, Marconi Institute for creativity http://mic.fgm.it/ )
11:15-11:45 Coffee/Tea break
11:45-12:30 Useful skills for Industry Marco Piccinini (VCM & OCD Research Manager, INOVYN Manufacturing Belgium)
12.30 - 14:00 Lunch (only provided for SINCHEM and Phototrain members and Speakers)*
14:00-14:45 Technology entrepreneurship and the origins of breakthrough innovations (Simone Ferriani Unibo, Alma Venturing http://almaventuring.blogspot.it/ )
14:45-15:30 Basics about technological company inception (Guilhem Velve Casquillas, CEO Elvesys Microfluidic Innovation Center)
15:30-15:45 UNIBO Launch Pad (http://www.unibolaunchpad.it/ )
15:45-16:45 Examples of Start-up and Spin-off companies
16:45-17:30 Final round table and conclusions - Chairman: Prof. Grimaldi and Prof. Ferriani
9:00-10:00 Heterogeneous photocatalysis from fundamentals to possible applications Leonardo Palmisano (University of Palermo)
10:00-11:00 Introduction of the application of photocatalysis in organic synthesis Paolo Melchiorre – (Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) Tarragona SPAIN)
11:00-11:30 Coffee/Tea break
11:30-12:15 Current status and challenges of the sun-driven water splitting for solar fuels production Simelys Hernández (Politecnico Torino)
12:15-12:45 Recent advances in the BiVO4 photocatalyst for sun-driven water oxidation, Tolod Kristine (Sinchem student)
12.45-14:15 Lunch (only provided for SINCHEM members and Speakers)*
15:00-15:45 Applications of heterogeneous photocatalysis in partial oxidation, hydration and dehydration reactions Giuseppe Marci (University of Palermo)
15:45-16:15 Electrocatalytic synthesis of ammonia from water and nitrogen Chen Shiming (Sinchem student)
16:15-16:45 Fundamentals of photocatalytic reactors and design of photocatalytic processes Giovanni Camera Roda (Bologna University)
9:00-10:00 Organic synthesis goes flow (TIMOTHY NOËL Eindhoven University of Technology)
10:00 -11:00 Elvesys microfluidic valley & some ideas about the change of paradigm of hardware company inception in 21 century (Guilhem Velve Casquillas, CEO Elvesys Microfluidic Innovation Center)
11:00-11:30 Coffee/Tea break
11:30-12:00 Femtosecond laser-inscribed microfluidics: from fundamentals to applications - Ottavia Jedrkiewicz(IFN-CNR and University of Insurbria).
12:00-12:45 45 Role of materials chemistry in 3D Printing: from the fundamentals to possible applications Francesca Bisi (Modena and Reggio University, MAT3D www.mat3d.it/en/ )
12.45-14:15 Lunch (only provided for SINCHEM members and speakers)*
14:15-15:00 Novel Structured Catalytic Reactors for process intensification Gianpiero Groppi (Politecnico Milano)
15:00-15:20 Electrodeposition: an alternative to coat open-cell foams for structured catalysts preparation Ho Hoang Phuoc (Sinchem student)
15:20-16:15 The INTENT ERC project (Structured Reactors with INTensified ENergy Transfer for Breakthrough Catalytic Technologies) Enrico Tronconi (Politecnico Milano )
16:15 Concluding Remarks
On Thursday February the 15th the SINCHEM and Phototrain PhD students will have a visit with 3D printing lab at the Golinelli Foundation, Via Paolo Nanni Costa 14, Bologna (www.fondazionegolinelli.com/) .
Department of Industrial Chemistry, "Toso Montanari", University of Bologna
