Philippe Basset, Professor at ESIEE PARIS and Director of ESYCOM Lab at the Université Gustave Eiffel, one of the GRAPHERGIA partners, co-chaired the symposium “Self-powered sensors based on nanogenerators”, at the European Materials Research Society (e-MRS) 2024 Spring Meeting, from the 27th to the 31st of May 2024 in the Strasbourg Convention Centre (France).
The symposium aimed to advance our fundamental understanding and technology development of nanoscale mechanical energy conversion materials and systems based on triboelectric nanogenerators and piezoelectronic nanogenerators.
Abstracts covered theoretical and experimental studies of dielectric materials; research and applications of nanogenerators for self-powered devices or hybrid nanogenerators. Interdisciplinary work that combines nanogenerators and other areas such as deep learning, artificial intelligence was particularly encouraged.
The symposium was organised by Philippe, together with Renyun Zhang, from Mid Sweden University, and Rusen Yang, from Xidian University. It was attended by around a hundred participants, with several presentations relating to textile applications and graphene-based materials. This event is held every two years in Strasbourg, France, alternating with a similar symposium at the Spring-MRS conference in the United States.
Philippe also presented the keynote “Electrostatic kinetic energy harvesting based on the triboelectric effect: conditioning circuit optimization and high-voltage power management systems”.
During the meeting, our partner had the opportunity to network with academics and researchers from Europe and Asia, and had discussions with Yaroslav Grosu, from CIC energiGUNE; Holger Fiedler, from GNS Science, and Andris Šutka, from Riga Technical University, as you can see in the left picture below taken by Peter Sherrell from RMIT University.
“It was a unique opportunity to discover the wealth of TENG activity in Europe”, said Philippe.
About the e-MRS 2024 Spring Meeting
The 2024 Spring Meeting of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) organized with the Foundation Jean-Marie Lehn consisted of parallel symposia with invited speakers, oral and poster presentations assorted by a plenary session to provide an international forum for discussing recent advances in the field of materials science.
The high quality scientific program addressed different topics organized into 22 symposia arranged in 6 clusters covering the fields of Decarbonized energy and sustainability; Materials for human well-being; 2D materials and surfaces: synthesis, characterization and perspectives; Advanced characterization of materials; Materials sciences for cultural heritage; Electronics, magnetics and photonics.