First two million Euro Consolidator Grant for producing solar cells
The Universitat Jaume I (UJI) has obtained the first Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (ERC), endowed with 2 million Euro, for producing solar cells with different materials, such as colloidal quantum dots and perovskite halide. Only three Valencian public universities have obtained funding in the last call for this budget line characterized by high competitiveness and excellence.
Iván Mora Seró, lecturer of Applied Physics and researcher at the University Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM), has won the European grant to develop the No-LIMIT project, whose objective is to improve the efficiency of solar cells through the synergistic interaction of materials to overcome the limitations of the current photovoltaic conversion. This UJI initiative has been one of the 315 proposals accepted by the ERC, out of the 2,035 submitted, since the success rate is very low, with an average of 15%. In Spain, 47 million Euro have been awarded to 24 projects.
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