Nanospace Training Winter School on Advanced Characterization of Carbon Materials 2026
NANOSPACE TRAINING WINTER SCHOOL ON ADVANCED CHARACTERISATION OF CARBON MATERIALS 2026
From 19 to 23 January 2026, the Pedro Pascual Centre in Benasque will host the NanoSpace Training School on Advanced Characterisation of Carbon Materials. Around 40 researchers from nearly twenty countries will participate. The main objective of this school, which is part of the training activities of the COST NanoSpace Action (CA21126), is to provide a broad overview of carbon (nano)materials, offering a solid foundation for understanding both their behaviour and experimental and theoretical characterisation techniques, as well as their potential applications in astrochemistry.
The science of (nano)carbon materials —nanotubes, graphene, nanodiamonds, fullerenes, nanoporous structures, cyclic nanotube rings (CPPs) and ribbons— has recently seen significant advances. In this context, detailed access to their atomic structure, composition and physical-chemical properties is essential. This Winter School, to be held in Benasque (Aragon, Spain), will offer specialised training to participants in the COST NanoSpace network. The programme will systematically address the description of these materials and the main advanced methods for their study, with special emphasis on their relevance within the field of astrochemistry.
This school has been organised by Dr Raúl Arenal (senior researcher at ARAID at the Aragon Nanoscience and Materials of Institute (INMA), CSIC-University of Zaragoza and at the Advanced Microscopy Laboratory (LMA), University of Zaragoza), with the support of the coordinator of the COST NanoSpace Action (CA21126), Dr Anibal García Hernández (Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC), CSIC).
