Fossil-free energy – a challenge for the whole of society
The transition to a fossil-free energy system, in Sweden and globally, is one of the great challenges of our time. For a successful transition to a sustainable energy system, there must be comprehensive research on, first, technology and, second, the behaviour and circumstances of society’s electricity users. At Uppsala University, a lot of research is going on in this area.
Interdisciplinary collaboration favours society’s energy transition
For a successful transition to a sustainable energy system, there must be comprehensive research on, ...
Gotland showing the way to tomorrow’s energy systems
The Swedish government has designated Gotland for a pilot project to pave the way for the energy tra ...
Batteries of the future
Battery research is an important piece of the puzzle for the transition to renewables and a sustaina ...
Organic batteries – Building in sustainability
Sustainable energy storage is in great demand. Researchers at Uppsala University have therefore deve ...
Catching the sun with new technology
A new technology that can significantly increase electricity and heat production from solar radiatio ...
Uppsala researchers developing flatworm-inspired robots as part of EU project
The EU project SOMIRO began at the turn of the year with the goal of developing technology that will ...
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Solar cells deliver world-record performance
12 april 2021
Hello there Vice-Chancellor Anders Hagfeldt, former Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Laboratory of Photomolecular Science, Swiss Federal Inst...
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Fossil-free energy – a challenge for the whole of society
01 april 2021
The transition to a fossil-free energy system, in Sweden and globally, is one of the great challenges of our time. For a successful transition to a...
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Batteries of the future
31 mars 2021
Battery research is an important piece of the puzzle for the transition to renewables and a sustainable society. Uppsala University has the largest...
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Organic batteries – Building in sustainability
31 mars 2021
Sustainable energy storage is in great demand. Researchers at Uppsala University have therefore developed an all-organic proton battery that can be...
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Catching the sun with new technology
31 mars 2021
A new technology that can significantly increase electricity and heat production from solar radiation is under development in the lab of Ilia Katar...
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Interdisciplinary collaboration favours society’s energy transition
30 mars 2021
For a successful transition to a sustainable energy system, there must be comprehensive research on, first, technology and, second, the behaviour a...
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Gotland showing the way to tomorrow’s energy systems
24 mars 2021
The Swedish government has designated Gotland for a pilot project to pave the way for the energy transition facing all of Sweden. Stefan Ivanell, p...
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Hat-trick of grants for researching smart electricity grids
19 februari 2021
The Uppsala Smart Energy Research group (USER) has been granted funding by the Swedish Energy Agency for three different collaborative projects in ...
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Grants to research into sustainable energy systems
17 februari 2021
Eight research projects within the Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology at Uppsala University have received grants in the call for curiosi...
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Producing more sustainable hydrogen
12 februari 2021
Hydrogen for energy use can be extracted in an environmentally friendly way from water and sunlight, using photocatalytic composite polymer nanopar...
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Collaboration on energy efficient cold magnets
05 februari 2021
The European Regional Structural Fund Programme for Småland and Islands and Region Kronoberg have decided to contribute to a new collaboration proj...
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Uppsala researchers developing flatworm-inspired robots as part of EU project
03 februari 2021
The EU project SOMIRO began at the turn of the year with the goal of developing technology that will help to reduce the environmental impact of agr...
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Ions in molten salts can go “against the flow”
27 januari 2021
In a new article published in the journal Communications Chemistry, a research group at Uppsala University show, using computer simulations, that i...
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“Sweden’s basement rock could become a future key source of sustainable energy”
15 januari 2021
Hello there Jenny Andersson, state geologist at the Swedish Geological Survey (SGU), who has received funding from Strategic Mobility, a Swedish Fo...
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Solar cell researcher and future Vice-Chancellor
20 november 2020
Anders Hagfeldt has spent a large part of his life researching the chemistry behind solar cells, for the past six years in Switzerland with researc...
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New semiconductor coating may pave way for future green fuels
19 november 2020
Hydrogen gas and methanol for fuel cells or as raw materials for the chemicals industry, for example, could be produced more sustainably using sunl...
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Large-scale European initiative for battery research starts up
09 september 2020
The European research initiative BATTERY 2030+ is now getting going. The ambition is to make Europe a world-leader in the development and productio...
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Research on metallic nanoparticles may lead to improved solar cells
28 juli 2020
In a new study, a research group at Uppsala University explain their outstanding success in harvesting “hot electron holes”. The results of their w...
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New solar forecasting model performs best
29 juni 2020
A new mathematical model for predicting variations in solar irradiance has been developed at Uppsala University. It may help to promote more effici...
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Smart electricity grids needed for expanding city
12 juni 2020
Uppsala Municipality is growing, and the city plans to keep expanding rapidly between now and 2050. One challenge is to supply electricity sustaina...