Neus Sabaté Vizcarra
Neus Sabaté Vizcarra
Project: SUPERCELL (Single use paper fuel cells).
The project aims to develop paper fuel cells that generate electricity from organic molecules such as ethanol, glucose or urea. These ecological, single-use batteries will be able to power portable disposable devices for diagnosis such as pregnancy tests, glucometers or others, using the fluid they wish to analyse as their fuel.
Last year, her team managed to develop a microfluid battery prototype on paper, which featured in Science magazine.
Bio
Neus Sabaté was born in Tarragona in 1975. She was always a good student and demonstrated innate curiosity for all subjects, both arts and sciences. If she’d had her way, she’d have studied a “knowledge of everything” degree. In her last year at high school, her physics teacher, Jose Antonio Altemir, inspired her in this subject and she decided to study Physical Sciences at the University of Barcelona from 1994 to 1998.
Once she graduated, and without really knowing what to do next, she had the chance to do some work experience in the electronics department of the same university which sent her off for a stay at the LAAS-CNRS laboratory in Toulouse. That was where Neus discovered her passion for microelectronics and micro-devices so that when she came back to Barcelona, she took her PhD at the Barcelona Institute of Microelectronics.
With her PhD under her belt, she took a post-doc position in Germany, at the Fraunhofer technology institute, where she worked on a project for the German microelectronics industry. On her return, she began a new line of research at the IMB-CNM-CSIC on fuel cells that has matured today into the ERC project.
Bio
Neus Sabaté was born in Tarragona in 1975. She was always a good student and demonstrated innate curiosity for all subjects, both arts and sciences. If she’d had her way, she’d have studied a “knowledge of everything” degree. In her last year at high school, her physics teacher, Jose Antonio Altemir, inspired her in this subject and she decided to study Physical Sciences at the University of Barcelona from 1994 to 1998.
Once she graduated, and without really knowing what to do next, she had the chance to do some work experience in the electronics department of the same university which sent her off for a stay at the LAAS-CNRS laboratory in Toulouse. That was where Neus discovered her passion for microelectronics and micro-devices so that when she came back to Barcelona, she took her PhD at the Barcelona Institute of Microelectronics.
With her PhD under her belt, she took a post-doc position in Germany, at the Fraunhofer technology institute, where she worked on a project for the German microelectronics industry. On her return, she began a new line of research at the IMB-CNM-CSIC on fuel cells that has matured today into the ERC project.
Project: SUPERCELL (Single use paper fuel cells).
The project aims to develop paper fuel cells that generate electricity from organic molecules such as ethanol, glucose or urea. These ecological, single-use batteries will be able to power portable disposable devices for diagnosis such as pregnancy tests, glucometers or others, using the fluid they wish to analyse as their fuel.
Last year, her team managed to develop a microfluid battery prototype on paper, which featured in Science magazine.
