Non-thermal plasmas for energy storage and CO2 conversion
Satisfying the world’s increasing energy demand while reducing negative impacts on the Earth climate is a key challenge in present days. The increase in the Earth’s surface temperature is related to the accumulation in the atmosphere of greenhouse gases (GHG)…
Advanced spectroscopic techniques to probe electrical discharges
Alongside the research on electrical discharges and their efficiencies, we use advanced time-resolved techniques to understand the physical and chemical mechanisms that drive the processes. Laser-Induced Fluorescence, LIF, and Optical Emission Spectroscopy, OES, have been employed to this end…
Discovering the origin of extraterrestrial molecules
Since the first discovery of water and ammonia in the interstellar medium more than 50 years ago, the number of molecules that have been detected in various regions of space has increased rapidly thanks to advances in telescope sensitivity and spatial resolution…
Polymers are ubiquitous in the aerospace industry, but the long-term exposure of such materials in the Low Earth Orbit (LEO, the region up to ~1000 km from the surface, where most satellites orbit) can lead to a systematic degradation of their properties, due…
