Meet the partners: Bruno Damien, e-peas

Break the Walls: Bruno Damien of e-peas on Innovation, Energy, and What Comes After the Battery Summary and edited excerpts from an interview conducted as part of EFFECTOR’s dissemination programme, January 2026. After 35 years in the electronics industry, Bruno Damien has learned to tell the difference between an innovation that moves things forward and […]
InterLUX: citizens map the light of their homes

InterLUX: citizens map the light of their homes Prof. Dr. Patricia Targon Campana, (University of São Paulo, EFFECTOR Adviser) and the InterLUX team Friday, 31 July, 2026 How bright is the light in your living room at 8 p.m.? In your bedroom in the morning? Above your desk at noon? Laboratories can simulate indoor lighting, […]
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) Thursday, 4 December, 2025 As smart cards become more sophisticated, integrating displays, sensors, dynamic authentication modules, and even microprocessors, the challenge of powering them in […]
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 FellowDr 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 not […]
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 […]