Argentine companies will implement the CO sensor developed by CDMF researchers with the participation of UJI lecturer Juan Andrés



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## Argentine companies will implement the CO sensor developed by CDMF researchers with the participation of UJI lecturer Juan Andrés

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Argentine businessmen Daniel C. Zoccali (Nikro Protección Inteligente); Luciano Vergagni (Lambda Automatizaciones) and Nicolás Tibaldi (Conicet) have expressed their intention to support and market in Argentina the protection devices against CO poisoning, developed by researchers linked to the Centre for the Development of Functional Materials (CDMF): Miguel Ponce, from the University of Mar del Plata (Argentina); the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Group, led by Juan Andrés (Universitat Jaume I de Castelló) and the Brazilians Alexandre Simões (UNESP) and Elson Longo (UFSCar).

The director of the Centre for the Development of Functional Materials, Professor Elson Longo, held a meeting with the businessmen at the CDMF headquarters, at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), where they showed their interest in implementing the prevention devices developed in international cooperation within the framework of the FAPESP/Conicet interaction, as funding organizations for the work developed by the research team.

The research is funded by FAPESP and CNPq (Brazil) and Conicet (Argentina); the Ministry of Science, Research and Universities (Spain) and INFN (Italy). It consists of developing a natural gas (NG) or bottled gas (BG) cut-off switch system, capable of interrupting the gas supply of an installation if a concentration of CO, NG or BG is detected in the environment above a pre-established level for the safety of people. The objective of this system is to avoid CO inhalation toxicity and the risk of explosion by NG or BG.

Currently, every year, about 250 deaths and 2,000 poisonings are recorded in Argentina. There are many poisoning problems due to bad combustion in the burning of NG or BG. In Brazil, these accidents occur mainly in the south of the country and, according to statistics, in the last ten years more than 60 people have died. For this reason, the Argentine deputy Eduardo Bucca presented a bill that requires the use of this sensor that is being investigated by the CDMF.

In September last year, this deputy invited researchers Elson Longo, Juan Andrés and Miguel Ponce to the Chamber of Deputies in Buenos Aires to present the project on toxic and explosive gas sensors. Guillermo Eliçabe (director of INTEMA Mar del Plata) was also present.

The director of the CDMF has emphasized the importance of alliances for the development of the project. In addition to Longo, Andrés and Ponce, the team counts on the collaboration of Alexandre Simões, professor at Paulista State University (UNESP)-Guaratinguetá Campus, and Cesare Malagú, professor at the University of Ferrara, in Italy.

CDMF is one of the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centres (CEPID) supported by FAPESP. This centre also receives investment from CNPq, from the National Institute of Materials Science and Technology in Nanotechnology (INCTMN).

**Photo**: Juan Andrés Bort, Eduardo Bucca, Elson Longo and Miguel Ponce during the presentation in September 2018

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