Upcoming seminars and events

February 4: CAP meeting

Time: 9:15 - 12:00
Place: Seminar room, House 7, floor 2, Ångström laboratory
Agenda:

9:00 – 9:45 Photobiological H2 production - Jorge Fernandez Mendez & Conrad Schumann
9:45 – 10:15 Directional Electron Transfer in the Bilayer MOF Architecture - Amol Kumar
10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 – 11:10 Semi-artificial photosynthesis - Whole-cell catalysis driven by light and electrochemically – Larissa Kurth
11:10 – 11:50 Multiple electron storage and electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution using a new benzothiadiazole small molecule – Haining Tian & Carlos Enrique Torres Mendez
12:00 End

Previous news and events

29 October 2024: Open Workshop by the Swedish Consortium for Artificial Photosynthesis

CAP organized an open half-day workshop on advanced renewable fuels for defossilization of the energy sector, with the goal to increase awareness and stimulate discussion about the role of alternative fuel technologies in society. The workshop took place in the Sonja Lyttkens lecture hall at the Ångström laboratory in Uppsala, and was attended by more than 90 people: researchers, students, and interested parties from the general public.

Program:

13:15 Welcome
13:25 “Innovative chemical approaches to defossilized fuels” - Sascha Ott
14:00 “Local circular hydrogen production in Uppsala” - Rafael Waters
14:35 Break
14:50 Charlotte Platzer Björkman
15:25 "Hydrogen in transition metal compounds - novel analytical approaches providing atomic scale understanding" - Daniel Primetzhofer & Gunnar Karl Pálsson
16:00 "Green cell factories for production of solar chemicals and fuels” - Pia Lindberg
16:35 End

October 24 - 26, 2023: Uppsala University conference on Sunlight- and Power-to-X

In collaboration with SUNERGY, CAP organized a conference on research and innovation on sustainable fossil-free fuels and base chemicals, with focus on technologies for direct H2 production and CO2 valorization from renewable energy.
The conference was attended by more than 170 people: researchers, company representatives, policymakers, and other interested parties came together during these three days of presentations aimed at accelerating the development of solar fuels, electro-fuels, and sustainable base chemicals in Sweden and in Europe. There was also a poster exhibition where PhD students and postdocs presented their work.

Read a summary about it on the SUNERGY webpage!

The meeting programme can be downloaded here:

The CAP workshop, September 27 - 28, 2022: Focusing on our vision

In 2022, on September 27-28, enthusiastic CAP members gathered at Haga Slott in Enköping for two half-days of intense discussions, idea hatching, and visions of the future.

The 2022 edition of the CAP workshop at Haga Slott (Enköping) was a great event!

CAP co-organizer of the Energy Theme day on May 19, 2022

A multidisciplinary theme week took place between 16-20 May on topics in science and technology at the Ångström Laboratory. During this week, current research within AI/Data-driven life science, the Universe and Mathematical Physics, Material, Energy and Climate change was presented by scientists and invited speakers from industry and other parts of society.

CAP co-organized the session on solar energy and solar fuels in the afternoon, with the following contributions:

• Marika Edoff, Uppsala University, Solve: Solelforskningscentrum Sverige - a new excellence centre.

• Solar Power in Sweden: Growth and future prospects
• Per Sundell, Vattenfall: Sustainable aviation fuel from CO2
• Pietro Campana, Mälardalen University: Combining photovoltaics and agriculture to agrivoltaics - sustainable land sharing
• Ellen Moons, Karlstad University: Research for efficient and stable new solar cells
• Leif Hammarström, Uppsala University: Solar fuel, an international overview
• Pia Lindberg, Uppsala University: Gren cell factories, fuels and chemicals from CO2 and solar energy
Chairs Marika Edoff and Peter Lindblad.

SUNERGY Sweden Event

On 20th of April, 2021, 60+ participants joined the SUNERGY online event for Sweden. A dedicated meeting for Sweden that was organized in the run-up to the upcoming calls of the 2021-2022 Horizon Europe work programme and the SUNERGY – CO2 Value Europe joint brokerage event. The meeting was opened by Ann Magnuson, introducing the SUNERGY vision of enabling a fossil-free Europe through research and innovation. The event emphasized the important role that Sweden can play in this with its strong profile in renewable energy R&D.

Watch all the presentations on YouTube:

Soap bubbles on the rise

A research project led by Leif Hammarström at Uppsala University has been awarded a EUR 3.2 million grant by the European Commission. The aim is to create renewable solar fuel using soap foam, carbon dioxide and sunlight.
SoFiA (Soap Film-based Artificial Photosynthesis) aims to build a small-scale demonstrator device that will be able to produce solar fuels and raw materials for chemical industries using only sunlight, water and CO2. The SoFiA concept mimics the thylakoid membrane in leaves and uses molecular catalysts made from earth abundant materials, to form self-assembled photo catalytic surfaces with designed soap foams. Read more on the project webpage.

Shedding new light on greener synthesis pathways

In October 2019, Sascha Ott, Eszter Borbas, Leif Hammarström and Jacinto Sá, received a 5-year grant of 35 million kronor from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, for their interdisciplinary project "Unexplored Approaches to Organic Photoredox Catalysis”.

In this new research project, the groups will focus on finding new alternatives to several reactions that are widely used in the chemical industry. The objective is to develop new synthesis pathways that generate less waste, or new synthetic routes that previously have been unfeasible.

The CAP workshop 2018

Our annual workshop was held in 2018 at Sigtunahöjden in Sigtuna, on April 26-27. Thanks for all the interesting presentations everyone, you made the workshop great!