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New Deputy Director
CINE announces its new Deputy Director, Pauline Boeira. A professional with a solid track record in companies in the Energy sector, Pauline currently leads the Advanced Fuels Program in the Technology area at Shell Brazil. She holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF) and a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from UNICAMP. “With great satisfaction and enthusiasm, CINE welcomes its new Deputy Director, Pauline Boeira. At the same time, we thank Camila Brandão for her excellent work and partnership in this position previously,” says the Center’s Director, Ana Flávia Nogueira. Learn more.
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2D/3D Perovskites for Solar Cells
A study entirely conducted in Brazil by CINE researchers and collaborators presents an innovative strategy to optimize the crystallization of perovskite films for 2D/3D solar cells, which combine the durability of two-dimensional perovskites and the efficiency of three-dimensional ones. “This work introduces the innovation of attempting to control the formation of 2D perovskite structures by introducing organic cations with different chain lengths into the precursor solution,” explains Professor Ana Flávia Nogueira (UNICAMP), the CINE researcher who led the study. The authors showed that intermediate-length cations prevent the formation of defects and generate a more organized and uniform structure. And best of all: when using these perovskites in solar cells, the devices become more efficient at converting light into electricity. Learn more.
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International audience at CINE Talks
Researchers from various countries and institutions participated in the first two CINE Talks seminars of 2026. Through online scientific lectures, the program presents advances achieved within CINE in the development of technologies for the energy transition. Open to the public, the seminars are given in English by young CINE researchers. “My talk attracted international researchers in my field who were outside my network, resulting in interactions and messages after the presentation,” says postdoctoral researcher Marionir Macedo Castelo Branco Neto, who presented, to approximately 60 people, the computational studies he develops at CINE on electrocatalysts for water splitting. Those interested in participating in future CINE Talks can contact qtnano@iqsc.usp.br. Learn more.
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Two members of CINE are part of a group of renowned scientists in the field of Electrochemistry who gave lectures and short courses at the “3rd Minas Gerais School of Electrochemistry“, held from April 13th to 17th at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), in the state of Minas Gerais. Twenty-five students from various Brazilian institutions participated in the school. Professor Lucia Helena Mascaro Sales (UFSCar), Co-principal Investigator of CINE’s Low-Carbon Hydrogen division, gave the first lecture of the event, entitled “Electrochemistry for Sustainable Development: Research, Training and Trajectories”. Professor Rafael Nagao (UNICAMP), a researcher in the same division, discussed the electrochemical process, developed within CINE, that transforms nitrate (a common pollutant in wastewater and effluents) into green ammonia (a raw material for fertilizers).
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Professor Pablo Sebastián Fernández (UNICAMP), a researcher at CINE, participated as a keynote speaker at the Latin-America Workshop on Advanced In Situ and Operando Methodologies, held in Santa Fe, Argentina, from March 18 to 20. The event brought together research groups from different countries and fields of knowledge, opening opportunities for regional scientific collaboration. In his lecture, Professor Pablo addressed several experiments, some of them based on synchrotron light, used in the study of electrocatalytic materials. The participation of the CINE member increases the visibility of the Center in the Latin American scientific community and consolidates its position as a reference in in situ and operando methodologies for materials science applied to the Energy sector.
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Professor Pablo Sebastián Fernández (UNICAMP) was also one of the invited speakers (the only one from Latin America) at an onlilne workshop held from March 25th to 27th by Brookhaven National Laboratory (United States), one of the most important institutions in synchrotron science. The event brought together experts from around the world to discuss scientific possibilities for a new beamline at the laboratory, dedicated to coherent diffraction imaging. This technique allows for advanced experiments to obtain detailed information about materials at the nanoscale. In his lecture, Pablo discussed recent work using this type of technique to track changes in the structure of nanoparticles during electrocatalytic reactions. The invitation to the CINE member represents recognition of the quality and originality of the research being developed at the Center, in collaboration with researchers from Sirius – CNPEM, in the development of instrumentation and methodologies for experiments on nanofocus beamlines.
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Four postdoctoral researchers from CINE participated in the Workshop of INEO (the National Institute of Organic Electronics), held from March 30th to April 1st in Nazaré Paulista, São Paulo state. At the event, which is a space for interaction among researchers in the field of Organic Electronics, the young scientists presented research work carried out within CINE, related to the development of materials and devices such as OLEDs and solar cells. Elisa Barbosa de Brito (CTI Renato Archer), a CINE member, and Francineide Lopes de Araújo, a former member who conducted her postdoctoral research at UNICAMP in the context of CINE, gave oral presentations. Andreia de Morais (CTI Renato Archer) and Carlos Henrique Stadtlober (UNICAMP) presented their work through posters. Their participation in the workshop strengthened CINE’s integration with INEO, a national network of scientific excellence with strong affinities to the topics studied at the Center.
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Elisa Barbosa de Brito and Andreia de Morais, postdoctoral researchers at CTI Renato Archer who are part of the CINE research team, also participated in the XX Workshop on Semiconductors and Micro & Nano Technology (Seminatec 2026). Held at UNICAMP (Campinas) from April 8th to 9th, this international event brought together researchers, students, industry professionals, and representatives of various entities to discuss advances in micro and nanoelectronics. Elisa presented a poster entitled “Performance of different glass/ITO substrates in red light-emitting diodes,” and Andreia presented a poster entitled “Electroless Deposition and Characterization of Ni-P Films on Flexible Substrates.” The researchers’ participation reinforced CINE’s integration into an environment that connects academia and industry around themes that are transversal to several of the technologies developed at the Center.
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