The first scientific article that Gabriel Pinheiro signed as author is also a milestone at CINE: it is the center’s first publication on machine learning. This sub-area of artificial intelligence is of great interest to CINE, as it allows it to significantly accelerate the discovery of new compositions and new properties of materials with the aim of using them in the generation and storage of energy. At the time the article was published,…
The year 2023 was fruitful in scientific trips for doctoral student Jessica Costa Alvim. As a member of CINE since 2020, she works on the development of materials capable of promoting the conversion of carbon dioxide into ethanol, using sunlight as an energy source. In April, she went to the United States with her advisor, Claudia Longo (Unicamp), to make a technical visit to a Shell research center in Houston and participate…
Today, while preparing to defend his doctorate, Carlos Antônio Rufino Júnior works as a researcher in Germany at CARISSMA, a center for automotive research and tests. There, in addition to teaching some classes in undergraduate and master’s courses, he participates in a project that aims to monitor, in real time, the need for maintenance of batteries that are used, for example, in electric cars. His mission is to develop a digital…
Less than two years after his doctorate, Rodrigo Szostak had the satisfaction of seeing his name as the first author of a scientific article on the cover of a very high impact journal, Chemical Reviews (impact factor 62.1). “It was a great challenge and also a satisfaction to participate in the article, because the journal is very important in the field of chemistry (it is read by almost the entire…
“At the beginning of my tenure, I thought it was important to carry out a survey of the Center’s numbers. CINE needed to know CINE. It was also important to reformulate the Center’s website, more dynamic, aligned with our visual identity and updated with our research proposals. Together with the coordinator of Education and Diffusion of Knowledge, Prof. Juarez L. F. Da Silva, we created the CINE Webinars and CINE…
“CINE began its activities in August 2018 with a completely different structure from other similar initiatives supported by Fapesp and also by Shell. CINE was structured to have four physically independent research divisions located in different points, namely: one at the Institute of Chemistry at Unicamp, another at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering at Unicamp, a third division at IPEN (city of São Paulo) and the fourth division at the…
Sabrina Gonçalves de Macedo Carvalho joined CINE in September 2019, during her postdoctoral studies at the Brazilian Nuclear and Energy Research Institute (IPEN), under the supervision of professor Reginaldo Muccillo. A few months later, in January 2020, she began a six-month research internship in Germany, funded by CINE, at the Institute for Energy and Climate Research (IEK) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich – one of the most important interdisciplinary research centers…
A study carried out within the Center for Innovation on New Energies (CINE) provides valuable information to continue developing perovskite solar cell technology, which can help popularize the use of photovoltaic energy due to its low production cost. To make the commercialization of this technology viable, one of the main challenges is to improve the stability of perovskites, directly linked to the durability of solar cells. In this research, the…
