Final Workshop Results
On March 25, 2026, the final workshop of the SILCO project was held at the University of Genoa. The hybrid event featured young researchers involved in the project presenting the results of two years of work. Speakers of international renown also participated.
See all the presentations below:
- Turning Waste into Solutions: Silica-Based Sorbents for CO2 Control~ Drs. M. di Virgilio, L. Viganò, S. Molina-Ramírez, G. Nava
- Life Sunfluor, Circular Economy applied to fluorine chemistry ~ Dr. C. Cara
- Durability and Sulfur Tolerance of Li-Ru / AL2O3 Dual Function Materials for the Integrated CO2 Capture and Methanation ~ Dr. S. Cimino
- Metal-Organic Frameworks as outstanding materials for CO2 capture ~ Dr. M. Daturi
- CO2-SR Ciclyc Technology: Capture and Conversion of CO2 with hybrid catalysts for storage and conversion with methane (CO2-SR) ~ Dr. C. Herrera-Delgado
- Membrane-based CO2 Capture for Sustainable Industrial Processes ~ Dr. N. Jullok
- Enhancing Multi Value-Chain Catalyst Carrier Revalorization: Key Assets and Challenges ~ Dr. A. Milani
SILCO Forward: Final Workshop on Circular Silica for Carbon Capture and Re-Use. Join Us Both Online and In Presence on 25/03/2026
SILCO at FEMS EUROMAT 2025 - 18th European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes. Granada (Spain) - 14-18/09/2025
Investiture Ceremony of New Doctors
Matteo Di Virgilio ~ Politecnico di Milano, 16/07/2025
Title of Thesis: “Novel Non-fluorinated Self-assembling Composite Membranes as Potential Electrolytes for Alternative Energy Generators”
Cum laude.
Sergio Molina Ramírez ~ University of Málaga, 19/03/2024
Title of Thesis: “Advanced Fuels and Hybrid Catalytic Systems for Performance Improvement and Pollutant Reduction in Diesel Engines”
Cum Laude, International Mention.
Lorenzo Viganò ~ University of Milano-Bicocca, 10/02/2025
Title of Thesis: “Sustainability in TiO2 Recovery and Application for Environmental Remediation”
SILCO at III National Congress of Chemistry for Technologies Department of SCI and XIV National Congress of Italian Association of Chemistry for Engineering (AICIng). Milazzo (ME, Italy) - 01-04/09/2025
SILCO at 13th ICEC Congress 2025 - International Conference on Environmental Catalysis. Isola delle Femmine (Sicily, Italy) - 2-5/06/2025
Sergio Molina presents a SILCO poster awarded as best poster at ICEC 2025
Lidia Castoldi, Luca Lietti, Elisabetta Finocchio, Cinzia Cristiani, Sergio Molina present the SILCO posters at ICEC 2025
Lidia Castoldi holds an oral presentation about SILCO at 4th FCCat 2025 Congress: French Conference on Catalysis. Ronce-les-Bains (France) - 19-23/05/2025
"Molecules" Special Issue - Graphene and Graphene-Related Materials for Energy and Environment: Synthesis and Application
SILCO at 8th World Congress on Materials Science & Engineering in Berlin (Germany) - 27&28/03/2025
SILCO meets young citizens at the Liceo G. Galilei in Voghera (PV) - 15&16/01/2025
SILCO & INEOS meeting - 13/09/2024
SILCO communication @ 18th ICC congress in Lyon
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