CIC energiGUNE is now offering the opportunity to complete the Research Master project on the fields of electrochemical and thermal energy storage at our facilities. The offer is aimed at students registered for a Master programme at university in related subjects: materials science, physics, chemistry, engineering, etc.

Eligibility

Candidates must be pre-registered as master students at a European University in a materials related Master Programme. Applications are open to students worldwide as long as their degree is validated / homologated and approved by the University where they intend to register, and that the university of choice agrees to establish a collaboration and a co-direction of the Master Thesis with CIC energiGUNE, with a minimum stay of 6 months at CIC energiGUNE for the practical part of the Master Thesis.

More information on pre-registration in local universities who already have a collaboration agreement with CIC energiGUNE is available at their websites, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) or Mondragon University (MU).

The Master

CIC energiGUNE offers 6 grants, 4 in EES and 2 in TES, to eligible students who wish to complete their Master Thesis with us. Financial support will be 6,000€ / year. Students may also be eligible for financial support by the university or other institutions.

Candidates should show commitment to carry on with a PhD Fellowship within the centre at the end of the Master's Degree, always subject to a positive evaluation during the Master Course.

The Master Thesis topics on offer for academic year 2013-2015 are as follow:

• Li-based batteries (EES)
• Na-based batteries (EES)
• Solid electrolytes for Li and Na batteries (EES)
• Supercapacitors (EES)
• Compatibility of thermal energy storage materials with heat transfer fluids (TES)
• Advanced carbon composite materials for thermal energy storage application (TES)

How to apply

Applications are open to students who wish to develop a career in research.

To apply for a CIC energiGUNE grant please send your academic record and CV to the attention of the scientific director at CIC energiGUNE info@cicenergigune.com before 5^th July 2013.

For further information, please contact us at info@cicenergigune.com

Professor Werner  Hofer,  Director of  Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy. Department of Chemistry/Physics from The University of Liverpool (http://www.liv.ac.uk/stephenson-institute/) is visiting CIC Energigune premises today in order to study possible collaborations between the Centers.

As well as visiting CIC Energigune Professor Hofer took the chance to meet Vitoria - Gasteiz City Hall representatives as Liverpool City Hall Delegate for the Campaign of 2016 Green Capital.

Scientists at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI leaded by Professor Petr Novak, Head of the Electrochemical Energy Storage Section and member of CIC Energigune's Scientific Committee of the Power Storage: batteries and supercaps Area, together with colleagues from the Toyota Research Laboratories in Japan have discovered that a widely-used type of lithium-ion battery has a memory effect. This discovery is of particularly high relevance for advances towards using lithium-ion batteries in the electric vehicle market.

This work was published in the scientific journal Nature Materials where you will find original publication:

Memory effect in a lithium-ion battery 
Tsuyoshi Sasaki, Yoshio Ukyo, Petr Novák 
Nat. Materials, Advance Online Publication 
doi: 10.1038/nmat3623 

CIC energiGUNE is now offering Summer Internship on the fields of electrochemical (EES) and thermal (TES) energy storage for graduated students in related areas: materials science, physics, chemistry, engineering, etc.

The Internship

The Summer Internship is intended to provide newly graduated students the opportunity to acquire practical research experience prior to the start of a Master's Degree.

CIC energiGUNE offers 6 grants, 4 in EES and 2 in TES. Financial support will be 250€ / month of work. The applicants must commit at least 8-12 weeks to the project. Students who wish to continue their studies and complete a Master Thesis with us will be positively valued.

The Summer Internships topics on offer for 2013 are as follow:

•  Li-based batteries (EES)
•  Na-based batteries (EES)
• Solid electrolytes for Li and Na batteries (EES)
• Supercapacitors (EES)
• Thermophysical characterization of sensible heat thermal energy storage materials (TES)
• Thermophysical characterization of latent thermal energy storage materials (TES)

How to apply

Applications are open to final year university students who wish to develop a career in research.

To apply for a CIC energiGUNE grant please send your academic record and CV to the attention of the scientific director at CIC energiGUNE info@cicenergigune.com before 10^th May 2013.

For further information you can contact us at info@cicenergigune.com

The Conference is organised by the Department of Heterogeneous Reactions, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (CEC), and the Catalysis and Materials Division, Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research (IMR), CAS, China. 

The 1st International Conference on Carbon for Energy Storage/Conversion and Environment Protection (CESEP´05) was founded and organized by Professor François Beguin in Orléans, France. It followed CESEP´07 in Cracow, Poland, CESEP´09 in Malaga, Spain, CESEP´11 in Vichy, France. CESEP conference series has become an important international forum for professors, engineers, experts and students to present the newest development in this important research area and to exchange ideas discuss the future direction for cooperation and investigation.

For more information, visit: http://www.cesep2013.org/pages/home.html

"Oxygen chemistry on TiO₂(110) Surfaces: Direct view at atomic scale"by Igor Lyubinetsky.Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA

7th May 2013, 12.00hrs, CIC Energigune Seminar room 1

"Thermal Energy Storage Laboratory - Objective and Research Activity"by Elena Palomo. Institut de Mécanique et d'Ingénierie, Université Bordeaux.

9th May 2013, 12.00hrs, CIC Energigune Seminar room 1

"Bimetallic Sulfates A2M(SO4)2·nH2O (A = Li, Na and M = 3d Transition Metal): New Attractive Electrode Materials for Li- and Na-ion Batteries" by Marine Reynaud Laboratoire de Reactivité et Chimie des Solides.

For further information visit Events section or contact us at info@cicenergigune.com

Teófilo Rojo, CIC Scientific Director, and Montserrat Casas Cabanas, Structure & Surface Analysis Group Leader - within CIC's Power Storage; Batteries and Supercaps Area, are part of the Organizing Committee.

In addition, CIC takes an active part in the talks under the representation of Javier Carretero, Power storage; Batteries and Supercaps Area Post-doc Researcher who will talk about Carbon nanotubes and other low dimensional carbons for energy harvesting, conversion and storage and Patrice Simon, from  Paul Sabatier University and CIC invited speaker who will talk about Ion confinement in carbon nanopores - application to supercapacitors.

CIC will present also two posters: "Pulsed-Electrochemical Deposition of Fe-based nanoparticles from non-aqueous media: effect of different additives on morphology development" presented by  Marya Baloch PhD student and "Identification of Functional Groups in Brodie Graphite Oxide at Different Degrees of Oxidation" presented by Roman Mysyk, Post-doc Researcher, both of them from Power storage; Batteries and Supercaps Area.

Following the overwhelming success of Imaginenano 2011, several conferences will be held in parallel in a new infrastructure, as well as a vast exhibition, one-to-one meetings and an industrial forum where everyone can meet and greet Nanotechnology side by side.

Imaginenano will therefore gather the global nanotechnology community, including researchers, industry policymakers and investors.

For more information, visit: http://www.imaginenano.com/GENERAL/index.php

On March 2013 awards of "COAVN de Arquitectura 2013" Contest were handed, being CIC Energigune's building one of the finalists in the category of "non residential buildings", the most crowded with 200 buildings presented.

CIC Energigune is set up as a group of modular buildings connected to each other by a functional and communications backbone underlying the centre's activity. The work areas were designed to foster informal inter-professional relations to encourage the researchers to share their knowledge in a relaxed atmosphere.

CIC Energigune has total capacity for 110 employees, of which 100 will be researcher positions. The definition of laboratory contents and structure is on demand, in accordance with the specifications that each of the area manager's defines.

The overall effect is high-tech and innovative, in which nature is reflected and merged with the buildings.

The symposium offers the opportunity for researchers who work in the field of supercapacitors to access and overview the most recent results, to present the actual state-of-the-art and to exchange perspectives. The main objective of this conference is to gather, at a truly international level, the most renowned experts together with non-specialist engineers and researchers who share interest in electrochemical capacitors, including:

• New insights for Electrochemical Capacitor charging (mechanism, solvation/desolvation phenomena, intercalation)
• New synthesis routes for materials preparation
• Characterization techniques and in-situ study of interfaces
• Study on symmetric, asymmetric and hybrid configuration of ECs
• Present and potential new applications of electrochemical capacitors
• Thermal management and integration systems
• New approaches of ECs in hybrid systems

For more information, visit http://www.itae.cnr.it/iseecap2013/index.html

The SSI conferences held every two years promote international collaboration and cooperation, providing a forum for scientists and engineers to discuss fundamentals, innovations and applications in the field of ion transport in solids. The SSI conferences also create an opportunity to exchange new ideas and latest research achievements.

The SSI-19 conference will be held in Kyoto from June 2 to 7, 2013 co-organized by The International Society for Solid State Ionics (ISSI) and The Solid State Ionics Society of Japan (SSIJ). The conference will include plenary lectures and invited talks as well as contributed oral and poster presentations on contemporary and emerging topics of Solid State Ionics. You are welcomed to participate in the SSI-19 conference and to have stimulating and active discussion in the beautiful Japanese old capital

For more information, visit http://www.ssi-19.net/