Light Harvesting SIG: Scalability of New technologies – Going from ‘Lab’ to ‘Fab’

Panel:

• Chair: Professor Michael De Volder, Professor of Advanced Materials Engineering, University of Cambridge
• Alex Smith, Head of Process Safety and Engineering, CPI
• Dr Su Varma, Academic Director, R&D Incubator, NSG Pilkington
• Dr Chris Case, Chief Technical Officer, Oxford PV.

Regardless of how promising a new technology is, it can only be commercialised if there is a suitable manufacturing process to scale it up. Unfortunately, many impressive research projects on renewable energy are carried out without taking scale-up challenges into account. As a result, many exciting technologies get stuck in the so-called valley of death between universities and industry. Given the pressing need for more renewable energy solutions that can be adopted at scale, the next session of the Light Harvesting Special Interest Group will focus on ‘Scalability of new technologies – going from ‘lab’ to ‘fab’.

Please direct any queries to decarbnetwork@admin.cam.ac.uk

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Part of the University of Cambridge Decarbonisation Network series. 

The Decarbonisation Network provides a forum for academics, industry and the public sector to identify accelerated routes to decarbonisation through Special Interest Groups (SIGs). They explore and identify the most promising technologies that have the potential to accelerate the UK’s path to net-zero. The Network works across the collegiate University, is supported by Strategic Partnerships Office and operates in collaboration with Cambridge Zero and the Energy Interdisciplinary Research Centre.