In May 2020, the article “3D printing vertically: Direct ink writing free-standing pillar arrays” was published in “Materials Today” (5 years impact factor of 32,072) (https://doi.org/10.1016 /j.mattod.2020.01.003) co-authored by researcher Bo Nan, currently in postdoctoral studies at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, in China, and by professor José MF Ferreira, both from DEMaC / […]

FCT carried out an international evaluation of Portuguese R&D units. The evaluation is now complete and CEFT was awarded with the EXCELLENT grade. The total funding granted for the 2020-2023 period is 775 K€ (437 K€ base funding, 338K€ of programmatic funding and plus 4 PhD fellowships). Details about the results and the evaluation process: […]

CEFT congratulates Dr. Beatriz Arnold Braz for her PhD thesis of the Doctoral Program in Chemical and Biological Engineering, entitled “Optimisation of a passive direct methanol fuel cell for portable applications” supervised by Prof. Alexandra Pinto, defended on April 12th 2019 @FEUP.

OpenFOAM® 3rd Iberian Meeting The 3rd FOAM@Iberia Meeting, to be held in 11-12 June at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (Portugal), will be the annual meeting point of the OpenFOAM® Iberian community. These informal gatherings are the opportunity to be introduced to OpenFOAM®, meet and interact with other OpenFOAM® users/developers, learn […]

The research that was done in 2018 at the University of Porto was, once again, of excellence. In this article, the JUP makes known some of the teams and researchers. Rheinforce technology developed by CEFT researchers is one of the highlights of this article. Read more about in JUP online :: 24 december 2018

CEFT is developing a cheaper and more durable methanol fuel cell prototype that can help diversify the power sources of small electronic devices. Read more about in Revista Exame :: 1 of january 2019