Advanced electrochemical devices for power-to-x

• Grant number: 23/14931-8
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Start date: April 01, 2025
• End date: March 31, 2030
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Materials and Metallurgical Engineering - Nonmetallic Materials
• Principal Investigator: Fabio Coral Fonseca
• Grantee: Fabio Coral Fonseca
• Host Institution: Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares (IPEN). Secretaria de Desenvolvimento Econômico (São Paulo - Estado). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Pesquisadores principais: Almir Oliveira Neto ; Andre Santarosa Ferlauto ; Eliana Navarro dos Santos Muccillo ; Estevam Vitorio Spinacé
• Associated researchers: Abhaya Krishna Datye ; Alexandre José de Castro Lanfredi ; Daniel Zanetti de Florio ; Elisabete Inacio Santiago ; Fabien Alibart ; John Varcoe ; Jorge Moreira Vaz ; Kannan Ramaiyan ; Marc Torrell Faro ; Marlu Cesar Steil ; Nguyen Minh ; Reginaldo Muccillo ; Vincenzo Esposito ; Yasko Kodama

Abstract

The challenges of clean electricity generation are rapidly being overcome with the advancement of renewable technologies. These renewable electrons can contribute to decarbonization processes that remain challenging in critical sectors such as transport and industry. Solid-state electrochemical reactors can convert energy-carrying molecules such as methane, hydrogen, ammonia or ethanol into electricity or, using the green electrons, convert them into other more value-added molecules in an efficient, carbon-neutral manner. This proposal aims to develop advanced energy and product conversion technologies using state-of-the-art electrochemical reactors. It brings together skills that allow for a systematic and comprehensive approach to problems at the frontier of the interdisciplinary areas of materials sciences, catalysis and electrochemistry that should lead to advances in topics of great scientific and technological relevance in the world, bringing them to the strategic context of our country. This approach is possible because the team gathered in this proposal has been working in the area fostered by large projects such as thematic and engineering research centers at FAPESP that allowed the construction of a solid infrastructure and relevant scientific productivity. (AU)