Aracne: research by rising young stars

Aracne, a strategic business network made up of three Emilia Romagna-based companies operating in the field of supplies to the construction industry, is pursuing a research programme to develop new materials (flat glass, resins and metals) and application solutions with innovative technological properties for green building.

The research project, financed by the regional funding programme "Dai distretti produttivi ai distretti tecnologici" ("From production districts to technological districts"), is centred around the work of several students and researchers at the university of Modena and Reggio Emilia and the university of Bologna.

Erika Iveth Cedillo González is one of the rising young stars in the field of green building science. A graduate in industrial chemistry at the Universidad Autonóma de Nuevo León, Mexico, where she also did a masters in Materials Science, she is currently working on a doctorate at the Materials Engineering faculty of the University of Modena.

She is about to spend a semester at the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) in Australia, a government-run research organisation consisting of 13 business units. In the Materials Science and Engineering Division, which conducts research in biology, physics and chemistry to develop innovations in the field of new materials, González will study the effect of temperature on the functionality of glass coated with nano-suspensions of TiO₂ from Colorobbia Italia, under the supervision of Paolo Falcaro, Science Leader Post-Doc of the division.