Material science & energy
The UAB Campus hosts several research centres working on the innovation of new materials and power generation processes.
- Biological processes for the removal of H2S gas content as biogas or natural gas.
- Bioelectrochemical hydrogen production.
- Reducing net CO2 emissions.
- Bioreactors for biological collection of CO2.
- Biological collection of CO2.
- Water and waste gas treatment technologies.
- Manufacture of power devices.
- Systems to improve efficiency and reduce energy consumption, with particular emphasis on applications, transportation, aerospace, renewable energy and automotive power distribution.
- Radiation detection in high-energy physics and medical imaging.
- Gas detection.
- Materials to generate photovoltaic energy.
- Materials for storing and converting energy.
- Materials for the generation, storage and use of energy.
- Plastic-based materials for flexible solar panels.
- New sustainable methods for obtaining and storing energy.
- Biological transformation of natural products into energy products (Energy recovery from different waste substances created in industrial processes to generate value-added products such as biofuels).
- Improve the wireless transmission of electrical energy.
- Superconductors for application to levitating trains.
- Development and construction of superconducting wires.
- Microelectronic systems for remote site water / gas / electricity.
- Advanced systems for diagnosis of the state of the current electricity and gas infrastructure.
- Algorithms for optimal management of electric vehicle top-up.
- Advanced systems for diagnosis of the state of existing infrastructures.
- Output devices.
- Control systems environments and people.
- Biomaterials and materials for drug delivery and diagnostics.
- Materials for energy and the environment.
- Design of materials for communication sciences and electronics.
- Optical materials.
- High-performance micro and nano devices for biological and biomedical applications.
- BioInterfaces and application of nanomaterials to public health and environmental health.
- Portable multiparameter optical system for counting and / or analysis of organic (microorganisms) and inorganic suprananometric particles.
- Material for manufacturing heavy metal sensors that are small, low cost, high sensitivity, and respect the environment.
- Technology for the fabrication of functional AFM probes.
- Methods based on emerging nanolithographies to manufacture nanometre scale structures and devices of interest for integrated micro/nano systems.