Category archives: TCCM

Hydrogen gas as alternative fuel

Hydrogen gas as alternative fuel

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Author: Jelle Vekeman is a Ph.D. student (ITN-EJD-TCCM) at Universitat de València For a long time now, we have mainly been using fossil fuels to satisfy our increasing needs for energy. Resources, however, are limited and waste products destructive for the environment. As researchers and companies are exploring alternatives, hydrogen gas (H 2 ) seems […]

What is photodynamic therapy? Insights from computational chemistry

What is photodynamic therapy? Insights from computational chemistry

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Author: Martina De Vetta is a Ph.D. student (ITN-EJD-TCCM) at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid The increasing number of types and subtypes of cancer and their incidence have triggered research to develop more selective alternative and less painful treatments compared to conventional therapies. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an innovative treatment against certain types of cancer and […]

Ruthenium nitrosyl complexes: a useful kind of molecular photoswitches

Ruthenium nitrosyl complexes: a useful kind of molecular photoswitches

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Author: Francesco Talotta is a Ph.D. student (ITN-EJD-TCCM) at Université Toulouse III A molecular switch consists in a molecular device able to change its physical or chemical properties (as its color for example) in a well definite way. In the best cases changing can be fully controlled, normally by an external chemical or physical factor […]

The Dark Side of Al(III) Chelation Therapy:  A New Computational Hope

The Dark Side of Al(III) Chelation Therapy: A New Computational Hope

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Author: Gabriele Dalla Torre is a Ph.D. student (ITN-EJD-TCCM) at UPV/EHU Aluminum is the third most abundant element in Earth’s crust, after oxygen and silicon. As a consequence, during the last century, human intervention has made aluminum so highly bioavailable that C. Exley, one of the leading researcher on Al(III) biochemistry, stated that we are […]

Looking for new materials with applications in organic solar cells

Looking for new materials with applications in organic solar cells

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Author: María A. Izquierdo-Morelos is a Ph.D. student (ITN-EJD-TCCM) at University of Groningen Over the past several decades researchers have thought how materials and device architectures can efficiently convert solar radiation into electrical power through the photovoltaic effect. Those efforts have led to different methods and processes to produce green energy. In this context, organic […]

Novel sources of clean energy: Where functional polynitrogen materials meet society’s needs.

Novel sources of clean energy: Where functional polynitrogen materials meet society’s needs.

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Author: Stefano Battaglia is a Ph.D. student (ITN-EJD-TCCM) at Université de Toulouse III Since the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded in 2010 to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for groundbreaking discoveries on the two-dimensional material graphene, the research in low-dimensional carbon nanostructures has seen an incredible increase of interest. Among the different types of […]