OPV-Powered Smart Cards: How Indoor Light and Ultra-Slim Supercapacitors Can Eliminate Battery Waste.

OPV-Powered Smart Cards: How Indoor Light and Ultra-Slim Supercapacitors Can Eliminate Battery Waste Hani Kanaan (Dracula Technologies), Steffen Thrane Vindt (Innocell ApS), Frank Sandeløv (CardLab ApS) and Bruno Damien (e-peas) As smart cards become more sophisticated, integrating displays, sensors, dynamic authentication modules, and even microprocessors, the challenge of powering them in a sustainable manner has […]
Breaking New Ground: Scaling Up Polyfullerene Synthesis for Next-Gen Organic Solar Cells

Breaking New Ground: Scaling Up Polyfullerene Synthesis for Next-Gen Organic Solar Cells Dr Marco Gomes EFFECTOR Research Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Roger Hiorns EFFECTOR Coordinator 2025 September 9th, Pau, France Last week, Dr Marco Gomes kicked off a new stage in our research: large-scale syntheses of polyfullerenes! We’re now going for 10 gram scales. That might […]
A Glimpse into the Future of Solar Energy: Insights from the 16th Polymer Meeting in Prague, by Dr Orisson Ponce Gomes, CNRS

A Glimpse into the Future of Solar Energy: Insights from the 16th Polymer Meeting in Prague By Dr Orisson Ponce Gomes, CNRS 2025 September 9th, Pau, France Last week, from September 1st to 4th, the scientific community gathered in Prague, Czech Republic, for the 16th Polymer Meeting. This conference highlighted the latest advancements in polymer […]