Lisbon university heads EU-China lab to develop flexible electronics

Lisbon’s Universidade Nova is leading a Sino-European laboratory in China dedicated to flexible electronics, from biomedical applications to solar cells that can go into space, scientist Elvira Fortunato has told Lusa. On the European side, the Universidade Nova de Lisboa is leading the China-European Union Joint Electronic Materials Laboratory, which will be set up in Hefei, the capital of Anhui province in eastern China.The consortium was recently strengthened by the entry of the University of Valencia, in eastern Spain, and also has the support of the European Academy of Sciences, said the former Portuguese minister for science, technology and higher education (2022-2024).