Issue 8 – September 14, 2021

CINE CONFERENCE

Attend the 2nd edition of the CINE Conference!

The event will provide a comprehensive overview of CINE’s research activities and results, and its role in the development of new technologies for the current energy transition. The conference is open to all audiences.

• Learn more and register (free of charge).

RESEARCH

A study by CINE researchers and collaborators takes a new step in the development of more efficient and durable lithium-oxygen batteries. The authors optimized a method for obtaining spinel materials with a good perfomance in catalyzing reactions that are essencial for the operation of these batteries.

• Go to the paper in Catalysis Today.

• Read the news story on CINE website.

RESEARCH

CINE researchers and collaborators advanced the understanding of heterostructures (systems formed by stacked layers of two-dimensional materials). Using theoretical tools, they studied the interaction between layers and its impact on the electronic properties of transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures – promising systems for developing new photovoltaic devices. The results are useful to design heterostructures for optimized devices.

• Go to the paper in 2D Materials.

GOVERNANCE

A meeting of CINE leaders and members of the International Advisory Board (IAB) was held on 16 August. The discussion revolved around CINE’s advances so far and directions for the next few years, considering each of the Center’s research divisions.

• Read the news story on CINE website.

CINE Talk
Title: Machine Learning as a new tool in chemical sciences.
Speaker: Prof Dr Marcos Gonçalves Quiles (UNIFESP).
When: September 17 at 10 am.
Where: on CINE YouTube.
Registration (free): through this form (until September 15).

Prof Ana Flavia Nogueira (UNICAMP), director of CINE and researcher at the Dense Energy Carriers division, gave an oral presentation on the use of in situ experiments based on synchrotron radiation to study halogenated perovskites.

Fábio Coral Fonseca (IPEN), coordinator of the Methane to Products division at CINE, was one of the speakers at the event and spoke about the Center’s research.

Prof Lucia Helena Mascaro (UFSCar), CINE researcher, is an organizer of the event, which accepts contributions for presentation, in Portuguese or English, on various topics of materials research, including energy, catalysis and computational theory.

CINE’s institutional folder is available on the Center’s website, where it is also possible to download the CINE logo in different formats. Look here.