26-Jun-2025 - Organized by
an organizing committee of researchers of the Institute of
Advanced Energy Technologies “Nicola Giordano” of Italy's Research
Council jointly led by
Antonio Vita, the 1st International
Congress on Sustainable Energy and related Technologies (ICSET
2025) was held in Lipari, Italy, from June 22 to 26, 2025.
The conference saw the meeting in nice Aeolian island of about
250
researchers from numerous countries whoe discuss
advancements in hydrogen and renewable energy, clean energy
technology and sustainability.
A
tight
scientific program comprised the four days of the conference
opened by the
plenary lecture of Kaspar Andreas Friedrich
on water electrolysis to produce "green" hydrogen.
Enrico Tronconi gave another plenary lecture on
combining
electrification with process intensification to enable the
transition to cleaner energy technologies and energy sources.
On June 24,
Mario Pagliaro gave a
presentation on the new Citrus nanocellulose-polymeric ionic
liquid composite
CytroCell@PIL for enhanced anion exchange
membranes
jointly
developed by his Lab with colleagues from the CNR Institute
of Membrane Technology led by
Enrica Fontananova.
Therein, he showed how a modest 1 wt% addition of
lemon
CytroCell to the polymer precursor dispersed in water
promotes dramatic enhancement of polymerizable ionic liquid
membrane:
- chemical stability in concentrated alkali
- mechanical properties
- hydroxide anion conductivity
Reporting on recent
computational
and spectroscopy work conducted with
Anne-Sylvie Fabiano
Tixier,
Nicolas Michel and
Ana Rosa Garcia,
Dr Pagliaro explained what are the unique molecular and nanoscale
structural properties of CytroCell
nanocellulose sourced
from citrus agroindustrial processing waste via cavitation
conducted in water only, that lead to such dramatic enhancement of
polymer properties.
From
Deborah Jones, ICGM France, to
Yuye J. Tong,
Georgetown University, numerous other eminent scientists gave
presentations at the Conference.
Nice
videos from the conference can be visualized on
Twitter (
video
1 -
video
2).
Three scientific journals (
Chemical Engineering Journal,
International
Journal of Hydrogen Energy, and
Journal of Energy
Storage) will publish Special Issues of selected works
presented at the Conference.
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