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) and Frank Sandeløv (CardLab ApS) As smart cards become more sophisticated integrating displays, sensors, dynamic authentication modules, and even microprocessors the challenge of powering them sustainably has become increasingly urgent.Most advanced cards today […]

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 […]

4 and 5 February 2025, Pau, France

The EFFECTOR project was officially launched on 4 February 2025, at an opening conference held in the amphitheatre of the Institut des sciences analytiques et de physico-chimie pour l’environnement et les matériaux (IPREM), in Pau, France. The conference was opened by Christelle BONNEMASON-CARRÈRE (Deputy Mayor of Pau) on behalf of the French Prime Minister, M. […]