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Announcement of the University of Alicante for which it is offered to cover with a temporary contract a position of junior collaborating personnel to collaborate in the project: "Estudios mecanísticos avanzados de reacciones electroquímicas relacionadas con la energía", of the University Institute of Electrochemistry. Ending term presentation of instances: July 4, 2022 Ending term presentation of instances: May 23, 2022 In an action co-financed by the European Union through the Operational Program of the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) of the Valencian Community 2014 – 2020 and linked to the call of the Generalitat Valenciana EQUIPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURES PO FEDER IDIFIDER 2021, a new equipment at the University Institute of Electrochemistry of the University of Alicante. The corresponding project has been led by the director of the GFES, Roberto Gómez Torregrosa, and includes practically all of the Institute's research staff. This is the following equipment, which will promote quality research, technological development and innovation: • GAS CHROMATOGRAPHER WITH FLAME IONIZATION, THERMAL AND MASS CONDUCTIVITY (MASS SPECTROMETER) DETECTORS AND WITH A 6-WAY SAMPLING VALVE FOR AUTOMATIC SAMPLING OF GASES IN DYNAMIC SYSTEMS • MULTICHANNEL ELECTROCHEMICAL WORKSTATION WITH IMPEDANCE AND HIGH CURRENT CAPABILITY • SPM SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPE INCLUDING SCANASYST, TAPPING MODE (AIR), CONTACT, LATERAL FORCE MICROSCOPY, PHASEIMAGING, LIFT MODE, MFM, FORCE SPECTROSCOPY, FORCE VOLUME, EFM, SURFACE POTENTIAL, TORSIONAL RESONANCE MODE, PIEZORESPONSE MICROSCOPY INCLUDING CURRENT AMPLIFICATION, IN ADDITION TO SCANNING ELECTRO-CHEMICAL MICROSCOPY (SECM) The group of Applied Electrochemistry and Electrocatalysis of the Institute of Electrochemistry of the University of Alicante is one of the participants in the project “ELEKTRA-Tratamiento del agua de rechazo procedente de una planta de electrodiálisis reversible mediante procesos electroquímicos” within the AVI program “Proyectos Estratégicos en Cooperación” of the year 2021 that is led by the company AGUAS DE VALENCIA SA (AVSA) and in which the University of Valencia and the Technological Institute of Energy also participate. Nanomaterials prepared at the University of Alicante Institute of Electrochemistry are to be sent to NASA’s International Space Station (ISS) for use as electrocatalysts in an electrochemical device to study the ammonia oxidation reaction, as part of a project related to the purification of urine in space. The nanomaterials have been designed at the Institute of Electrochemistry by PhD student Roberto Martínez, technician Francisco José Vidal Iglesias and researcher José Solla-Gullón and are made up of platinum (Pt) nanocubes supported by a carbonaceous matrix.
