In collaboration with scientists from Italy, two researchers from CINE have developed perovskite solar cells that exhibit excellent performance in transforming artificial light into electricity in indoor environments. These devices could provide clean and renewable energy for appliances used in homes, businesses, or industries, without the need for batteries. The indoor photovoltaic market was valued at approximately $1.2 trillion in 2023. However, indoor environments, with their low light levels, represent…
The first edition of Energy Week, an event that brought together the productive sector and academia at Unicamp to discuss the present and future of energy, had the participation of CINE on its organizing committee. The center’s main contribution was the holding of a workshop on entrepreneurship and three panel discussions that addressed challenges and solutions related to the energy transition, energy storage, and green hydrogen. Held by the Center…
More than 80 students and researchers from CINE participated in a workshop on the afternoon of December 1st, which generated important reflections on safety and mental health in the workplace. The event was held in a hybrid format, both at FEEC-Unicamp and online, and was sponsored by Shell. According to Mateus Giesbrecht, CINE’s Health, Safety and Environment Coordinator, these three issues are very important for all organizations, but in the…
Ana Flávia Nogueira, a Professor at Unicamp and Director of CINE, played a leading role in a series of events at COP30, the 30th United Nations Conference on Climate Change, which brought together representatives from 194 countries and approximately 300,000 visitors in the capital of the state of Pará between November 10th and 22nd. “It was very interesting to experience the extremely friendly coexistence of people from all over the…
A scientific article recently published in the prestigious journal ACS Energy Letters presents a system capable of producing hydrogen without generating carbon emissions, using only sunlight and water (free and abundant resources) and materials widely available in Brazil. A prototype of the equipment, a photoelectrolyzer, was successfully produced and tested by the authors of the work, both in the laboratory and outdoors. Photoelectrolyzers are not yet on the market, but…
The third CINE event focused on entrepreneurship training was held in the last week of October. Master’s, doctoral, and postdoctoral fellows from the center participated in a series of activities aimed at identifying technologies with the potential to generate products and presenting possible businesses through pitches (short presentations made by entrepreneurs to persuasively explain the value of their startups). “The Startup Generation for Energy Transition Workshop was a milestone for…
Developing essential skills for global energy leaders was the goal of a course attended by eight master’s and doctoral students from all the research divisions of CINE. Entitled Growing Global Energy Leaders Program (GGEL), the course was held online over six weeks, between June and August of this year. In addition to CINE members, the course brought together young people from two other multi-institutional energy research centers, RCGI (Brazil) and CISTAR (USA)….
A little over a year after the approval of two laws in Brazil on the production and use of low-carbon hydrogen, this green molecule was the subject of the third workshop organized by CINE and Cubo Itaú as part of the Energy Transition Track. The event was held on September 4th at Cubo Itaú in São Paulo. “We experienced a period of euphoria around green hydrogen, and then the market…
