UDC concludes STREET TA with Darmstadt team
On Friday, September 13, 2024, Co-UDlabs concluded the first Transnational Access campaign from its 2nd TA call. Amir Asadi, a PhD researcher from the Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany), pulled for the last time the lever of CITEEC’s rain simulator at the STREET facility. After over three months of tests, in which the facility has been adapted and re-furbished for the TA experiments, the Darmstadt team has finalised work on their project, Active Building Materials: Integration of Visible Light-Driven TiO2-based Carbon Nanotubes for Enhanced Degradation of Micropollutants in Rainwater Runoff.
The visiting team will now work on the outcomes of the experiments in close collaboration with the hosts and facility managers at the Universidade da Coruña (UDC). Both groups aim at developing several publications based on the results of the campaign and plan to keep collaborating and build on the knowledge and synergies built through the performance of the Transnational Access.
Darmstadt’s Transnational Access — with contributions from researchers at the Norwegian National Technical University (NTNU) — has been a very productive and successful one, with a strong multidisciplinary dimension (which allowed both teams to work in a more chemistry-oriented domain) that helped broaden the academic and technical spectrum of activities performed within the TA framework of Co-UDlabs.
UDC is currently hosting two more TAs from the 2nd TA call. A team from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is working at the BLOCK facility, while a visiting researcher from Aachen’s Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) is starting its experimental campaign today, September 16, in the STREET installation.