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 Pará between November 10th and 22nd. “It was very interesting to experience the extremely friendly coexistence of people from all over the world and our…
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)….
Photovoltaic solar energy and wind energy: improvement of perovskite solar cells and optimization of wind turbines.
Development of batteries, supercapacitors, reformers and fuel cells for an efficient management of renewable energy.
Development of sustainable processes for the production of low-carbon hydrogen.
Computer simulations and artificial intelligence for studies on solar cells, wind turbines, green hydrogen production, batteries and supercapacitors.
