“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…
Batteries, biofuels, green hydrogen, solar cells. All these technologies, and not just them, are needed to reduce carbon emissions in the transport sector in Brazil and thus contribute to the mitigation of climate change. More precisely, it is necessary to look at the local reality and find the most appropriate technologies for each application: passenger cars, long-distance buses, rural vehicles, ships, etc. This was one of the main conclusions of…
Clean energy sources like the sun and wind are renewable, free and inexhaustible, but they are intermittent. Therefore, to store the generated energy and use it when there is no sunlight or wind, it is necessary to have good storage systems, in which supercapacitors can be very important parts. Indeed, these devices vastly outperform batteries in terms of their power, which is the speed at which they store energy (charge)…
Two members of the Center for Innovative and Strategic Transformation of Alkane Resources (CISTAR) visited CINE between the 20th and 24th of March: Prof. Abhaya Datye (University of New Mexico), Director of International Programs at CISTAR, and Prof. Denise Driscoll (Purdue University), Director of Diversity and Inclusion. Since last year, CINE has maintained a cooperation with CISTAR. Both CINE and CISTAR are multi-institutional engineering research centers dedicated to decarbonization technologies…
A body of recent research is accelerating the development of perovskite solar cells. These studies monitored, in real time and in detail, the changes that occur in perovskite films during processes that influence their early degradation – one of the main obstacles to the commercialization of this emerging photovoltaic technology. The studies, several of which were carried out in Brazil in the context of CINE, are based on the use…
