Ana Castellanos-Aliga, David G. Calatayud 

HYENA project focuses on the fabrication of hybrid energy nano-harvesters based on electroceramics and 2D Materials for efficient and sustainable water splitting applications and photocatalytic water decontamination. Additionally, trends toward energy efficiency have led to increased interest in combining electronic and magnetic properties into multifunctional materials, so that a single device component can perform more than one task offering tremendous opportunities for energy savings and device miniaturization. Within this frame, heterostructures hold the greatest potential for a new generation of flexible catalysts, sensors or energy harvesters. Among the candidate materials, these harvesters will be based on photocatalytic materials of great projection in the field of commercial photocatalysis (zinc oxide, titanium dioxide, and ternaries of the Bi-Ti-O family), and 2D Materials (Graphene, Reduced graphene oxide, carbon nitride…), exploiting the extensive academic and industrial experience of the network in the processing of these materials. These heterostructures will constitute the core of the research to be conducted within the HYENA project.