School and university meet in “Science and Technology of the Montagne di Fermo”

“It is important to open the doors of the school and share lessons that allow us to dialogue with the university and companies”: like him head teacher Stephanie Scatasta Opened the event designed by the previous professor Helvetius Serena And organized in a special collaboration between the Montagne Alumni Association and MITI, the Museum of Innovation and Industrial Technologies. Indeed, the meeting, which Professor Serena has in the past held within the school’s doors, and spread over three days, has been condensed into a single event since 2013, open to all interested parties, and which has seen an increasingly passionate collaboration between university professors and companies. Openness that works to “overcome the educational challenges of tomorrow”, and to maintain “the vision of innovation that the Institute has always had”as the principal of the school later added.

The first letter is entitled Graphene: properties and applications.edited by the professor. Luca PerantoniProfessor of electromagnetic fields. Graphene is a sheet of carbon atoms, arranged in such a way as to form a hexagonal lattice, about 0.34 nanometers thick. The most common graphite found in pencils, which can be confused with, is nothing more than a “stack” of layers of graphene, as described by the professor. This material has extraordinary charge transfer properties, allowing for amazing results in electrical and thermal conductivity, as well as being able to absorb only 2-3% of light frequencies, allowing new pathways to be opened in the world of optics. In fact, the applications that we started working on today, which also includes Big tech Internationally, it is about creating electronic devices on plastic, due to its extreme flexibility, solar cell components, flexible electronic devices, and new battery types. Many of these applications today are still at an experimental level, given the costs of processes and technologies that are not fully developed, but still more are proving to be a reality, such as creating materials enhanced with nanoscale additives, specifically graphene, to increase their performance (eg in tires and tennis rackets).

Then he took the floor the professor. Enyo GambiProfessor of Communications, who discussed the latest vanguards in the world of communication, as evidenced by the title of the speech: “Modern Communication Solutions: From 5G to LEO Satellite Constellations”. The growing demand of the service market and industries for increasingly efficient communication systems is driving the exponential development of wireless technologies that have taken place in recent years, of which 5G represents its last frontier. It is currently presented as a tool still in its infancy, being used in synergy with the existing and unified 4G network, but the goals to be achieved going forward are well defined: “Envision the Infinite Internet”, with an average capacity of 10 Gb/s and a latency of less than milliseconds; Global Coverage Internationally standardized system. It presents itself as a technology capable of connecting people with things for the first time, thus building an increasingly intelligent reality at the service of man, which includes implementation smart cities, self-driving cars and Industry 4.0, are able to operate more effectively and efficiently. Then another communication challenge is presented by the so-called “Internet satellite”, that is, the possibility of using satellites as antennas to receive and direct the signal coming from our devices, which makes the Internet a truly global tool. In this regard, in fact, the issue of the Starlink satellite communication made headlines, which its owner Elon Musk made available to the Ukrainian population to communicate, in a situation where the traditional towers are either non-existent due to destruction. or severely threatened.

The words of Mayor Paolo Calcinaro conclude the eventwhich greets male and female students with what is “more than an institutional greeting”, but begins as a starting point for reflection on the proliferation of antennas in historical centers and in places of scenic value, and to raise awareness of the fact that technological innovation should not lead to the “far west of antennas”, with the sole aim of It is to achieve an economic return, but to an increasingly peaceful and fruitful interaction between people and progress.