The Cleantech Centre is Western Canada’s clean technologies innovation centre created through $1.9 million in funding from Pacific Economic Development Canada, and contributions from NSERC, UBC, and industrial partners.

The Centre is a cutting-edge innovation space located at UBC’s Okanagan Campus. It fosters academic-industry collaborations to promote clean technologies, help Canadian companies to bring their technologies and products to domestic and international markets, and support Canada’s transition to a low-carbon economy.

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Dr. Alexander Uhl and co-workers present the first electron backscatter diffraction studies on ink-based CuIn(S,Se)2 absorber layers

It was prepared using environmentally benign metal chlorides, thiourea, and dimethylformamide. The CuIn(S,Se)2 solar cells exhibit power conversion efficiencies up to 13.2%, which are amongst the highest of all previously reported non-vacuum methods with comparable bandgap.

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Dr. Jian Liu has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada

Dr. Jian Liu, an associate professor at the UBC Okanagan School of Engineering, has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada as one of its newest members of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists is Canada’s first national system of multidisciplinary recognition for the emerging generation of Canadian intellectual leadership.

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Rubaiya Rumman is a Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering and a UBC Killam Doctoral Scholar at the School of Engineering

Her research focuses on the sustainability and life cycle performance of construction materials. Concrete is a huge emitter of CO2, and the main responsible ingredient is cement. A 1000 kg of cement production emits about 900 kg of CO2 to the environment. Rumman is investigating the feasibility of the use of wood ash, produced in abundance as a by-product of bioenergy in Canada, to be a potential substitute for coal fly ash. Her research aims to reduce the carbon footprint of concrete.

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