The scientific potential is gradually and steadily overcoming the gender gap that had traditionally marked it. Increasingly younger women play an important and decisive role in research on issues of the first magnitude.
Original news: www.peusa.org (28/11/2021)
Science to preserve nature
The doctoral student Anna Mas is working on the CaptaCO2 project, which is developed in the facilities of the Eurecat technology center in Tarragona and in collaboration with the Rovira i Virgili University. The task in which he is involved is based on a simple and at the same time sophisticated principle: "through a series of membranes and a solution, we want to capture sufficiently relevant amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert them into carbonates." And this resulting material, apply it to the generation of fuels or materials for various uses (for example, construction). Mas works, precisely, on "optimizing the efficiency of the process, so that profitable amounts of C02 can be achieved". This is the final objective of his thesis that he will present at the Rovira i Virgili University, based on the concept of Negative Technology Emissions, that is, a decisive response to the challenges of climate change and global warming.