COgITOR Readings PodCast

COgITOR Readings PodCast

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COgITOR Readings PodCast episodes

  • 15. Michael S. Strano: Nanoelectronics Grafted onto and within Colloids for Colloidal State Machines and Micro-Robotics
    The COgITOR Readings Committee is releasing the presentations in form of podcasts to the broad audience.

    Prof. Strano discusses about the advancements at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the field of colloidal electronics / robotics, where the electronic devices have been suspended in fluid streams to provide higher functionalities. This exciting idea promises to enable sprayable / injectable fully functional autonomous devices, that could explore inaccessible areas.

    The COgITOR project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 964388. This podcast reflects only the author's view and that the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
    38 min
  • 14. Indraneel Sen: Soap films & foams - Device & Sensor Possibilities
    The COgITOR Readings Committee is releasing the presentations in form of podcasts to the broad audience.

    Dr. Sen introduces us to the marvelous world of soap films and foams, whose development was done within the European projects “Progeny” and “SOFIA”, bringing our capabilities to the level of controlling the surface chemistry of the top and bottom layers of soap films. Foams are envisaged as photosynthetic reactors to perform sun-activated conversions. The upcoming technology enabled by foams is an artificial leave, capable of converting the carbon dioxide into solar fuels.

    The COgITOR project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 964388. This podcast reflects only the author's view and that the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains
    37 min
  • 13. Roman Krahne: Metal-Dielectric-Metal nanophotonic cavities
    The COgITOR Readings Committee is releasing the presentations in form of podcasts to the broad audience.

    Dr. Krahne discusses how nanophotonic cavities can be made using simple metal-dielectric-metal structures with no lithographic steps needed. Such devices behave as fully tunable Fabry-Perot cavities featuring near zero permittivity materials, and represent an innovative technology for future photonic devices.

    The COgITOR project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 964388. This podcast reflects only the author's view and that the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

    22 min
  • 12. Sergey Suslov: Electromagnetically driven flows
    The COgITOR Readings Committee is releasing the presentations in form of podcasts to the broad audience.

    Prof. Suslov gives a review of electromagnetic field equations coupled to fluid flows, whose study has an incredibly broad range of applications, spanning from remote operation to atmospheric and climatic studies. Likewise the typical scale of application can range from nano and micro-devices, up to planetary scales

    The COgITOR project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 964388. This podcast reflects only the author's view and that the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains
    35 min
  • 11. Emiliano Descrovi: Converting light polarization into mechanical actuation
    The COgITOR Readings Committee is releasing the presentations in form of podcasts to the broad audience.

    Prof. Descrovi discusses how azocompounds can be exploited as light responsive additives in composite soft materials, whose sensitivity to light polarization provides a means to remotely control their shape. An exciting upcoming technology of light-activated devices is now reality.

    The COgITOR project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 964388. This podcast reflects only the author's view and that the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
    24 min
  • 10. Denis Garoli: Solid-state nanopores as iontronic transistors - development and potential applications in neuromorphic computing
    The COgITOR Readings Committee is releasing the presentations in form of podcasts to the broad audience.


    Prof. Garoli presents research activity on iontronic devices, an extremely promising field that will enable processing information with ionic channels, instead of electronic ones. By leveraging on the abundance of ions he envisages multi-binary parallel logics tThe COgITOR Readings Committee is releasing the presentations in form of podcasts to the broad audience.

    The COgITOR project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 964388. This podcast reflects only the author's view and that the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.  o enable future technology conceived for neuromorphic computing and biosensing.
    24 min
  • 9. Artur Braun: Design, fabrication and structural modeling of biomimetic soft materials for robotic applications
    The COgITOR Readings Committee is releasing the presentations in form of podcasts to the broad audience.

    Dr. Braun discussed the exciting advancements performed in the field of soft matter, resulting in multifunctional artificial skins including sensing and also actuation capabilities. Biomimetic self-healing compositions are explored, enabling future biomimetic soft robots.

    The COgITOR project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 964388. This podcast reflects only the author's view and that the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
    36 min
  • 8. Giuseppe Tarabella: Organic and natural materials for bioelectronics
    The COgITOR Readings Committee is releasing the presentations in form of podcasts to the broad audience.

    Dr. Tarabella discusses several examples of recent research performed with organic semiconductors and devices, developed with novel processing technologies and materials, featuring unprecedented sensing capabilities. Findings enable brand new devices based on soft matter of great availability and sustainability.

    The COgITOR project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 964388. This podcast reflects only the author's view and that the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
    31 min
  • 7. Raphael Fortulan: Reservoir Computing with Biological Based Colloids
    The COgITOR Readings Committee is releasing the presentations in form of podcasts to the broad audience.

    Dr. Fortulan presents amazing findings about the advanced electronic properties of both synthetic and natural colloids, in particular memfractance and reservoir computing (RC) tasks. He shows that RC is exceptionally executed by modified egg white proteins, providing an abundant source substrate, and featuring excellent figures of merit, compared with conventional artificial neural networks. The future technology enabled is computing with natural colloids.

    The COgITOR project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 964388. This podcast reflects only the author's view and that the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
    22 min
  • 6. Alessandro Chiolerio: Holonomic Computing: early architecture and new developments
    The COgITOR Readings Committee is releasing the presentations in form of podcasts to the broad audience.

    Prof. Chiolerio discusses how the architecture design of a holonomic cybernetic system has changed and evolved to take into account recent advancements in the pioneering research on colloidal substrates. Liquid state machines, neuromorphic systems, learning and plasticity, multi-particle phase correlation are addressed. Findings enable an upcoming technology based on holonomic liquid devices for massively parallel computation.

    The COgITOR project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 964388. This podcast reflects only the author's view and that the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
    30 min

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All the talks from the “Cogitor readings” workshop in a podcast designed for anyone who wants to find out more about the new frontiers of technology