Course Structure
- Each week will be led by a faculty member, focusing on a specific nanotechnology application area.
- Students will engage in one lecture and one interactive session (case study, tutorial, or discussion) per week.
Clean Water
by Associate Professor Tamar Segal Peretz
The supply of and access to clean water are considered one of the most pervasive problems of humanity in the 21st century. The lecture will provide an overview on current membrane technologies for water filtration and desalination and discuss our research on ultrafiltration membrane modification and reverse osmosis membrane synthesis using vapor-based processes.
Waste Heat Recovery with Thermoelectric Materials
by Professor Gideon Grader
It is generally accepted that global climate changes are mostly due to accelerated use of fossil fuels as the primary energy source over the past 150 years. An amazing fact is that over 65% of this energy is released into the atmosphere as waste heat. In this lecture we will examine potential of recovering some of this lost energy by thermoelectric materials that convert heat directly into electrical energy.
Giving Value to Waste CO2 and CH4
by Associate Professor Oz Gazit
The lecture will focus on the challenges involved in converting methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2), looking at things like their molecular structure, the reaction conditions, and the size of the process. We’ll also discuss how designing better catalysts can help overcome some of these difficulties.
Fuel Cells: Towards a Sustainable Energy Future
by Professor Dario R. Dekel
The lecture will introduce how fuel cells convert hydrogen and other clean fuels into electricity with high efficiency and zero emissions, exploring their operating principles, the materials that enable them, and the scientific challenges that stand in the way of making fuel cells a major clean-energy technology.
