BIO
Miguel Ángel García-Tuñón (Oviedo, 1970) is a scientific researcher at Instituto de Cerámica y Vidrio of the Spanish National Research Center in Madrid.
PROJECT
The properties of materials change drastically at nanometric scale, and Miguel Ángel García has obtained very significant results in the research, specifically on how heat transfer changes between nanoparticles.
For example, he has managed to measure the temperature of the closest points ever measured, separated by only a few atoms, achieving a record of spatial resolution in temperature measurement.
The project will study ways of warming surfaces with nanoparticles, which is useful in biomedicine (hypermetry is already being investigated in the treatment of tumors or controlled application of drugs) and also in chemistry, for boosting catalytic processes. With nanoparticles the heat will be applied in a much more controlled way, which will save energy and raw materials.