{"id":1022,"date":"2019-03-22T10:50:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T13:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cine.org.br\/new\/?page_id=1022"},"modified":"2024-05-29T14:50:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T17:50:35","slug":"dense-energy-carriers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cine.org.br\/en\/dense-energy-carriers\/","title":{"rendered":"Dense Energy Carriers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nPrincipal Investigator (PI)<\/b>
\nAna Flavia Nogueira<\/a> \u2013 UNICAMP \u2013 Chemistry Institute \u2013 anafla@unicamp.br<\/p>\n

Co-PIs<\/b>
\nClaudia Longo \u2013 UNICAMP \u2013 Chemistry Institute \u2013 clalongo@unicamp.br
\nErnesto C. Pereira \u2013 UFSCar \u2013 Chemistry Department \u2013 ernesto@ufscar.br
\nFl\u00e1vio Leandro de Souza \u2013 UFABC \u2013 flavio.souza@ufabc.edu.br
\nPablo Sebasti\u00e1n Fern\u00e1ndez \u2013 UNICAMP \u2013 Chemistry Institute \u2013 pablosf@unicamp.br<\/p>\n

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Publications<\/b>
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Molecules offer the highest energy densities compared to any form of electricity storage and are therefore referred to as dense energy carriers (DEC). However, most of the molecules used as fuel nowadays are processed through non-renewable and non-sustainable technologies or by biofuels technologies.<\/p>\n

CINE\u2019s DEC Division was proposed to make use of the Sun, a clean and abundant source of energy, to shape a more sustainable and prosperous future. We intend to achieve this very noble objective through the development of efficient and low-cost processes and photocatalysts able to convert sunlight to electricity, to break water, CO2 and biomass into more valuable products as hydrogen, alcohols, hydrocarbons and other C2+ molecules, etc.<\/p>\n

Certainly, solar driven routes to synthesize molecules based on the photoelectrochemical (PEC) approach are alternative ways to be explored in order to produce liquid fuel in a sustainable and \u201cgreen\u201d concept. Therefore, the focus of this research division is the development of efficient solar driven routes to synthesize relevant solar fuels from molecules that are widely available in the environment.<\/p>\n

DEC Division has also aimed to make the usage of in situ and operando techniques (coupled or not with Synchrotron radiation) to understand about the mechanisms of charge generation, separation and transport, and how the nature and properties of the photocatalysts change during operation.<\/p>\n

Emerging materials as halide perovskites are also being explored to develop efficient photovoltaic cells. We propose to study the fundamentals of the halide perovskite materials as defects, stability, composition, performance and to develop large area solar modules to be coupled to the PEC systems.
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Projects<\/b><\/p>\n

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