Successful completion of Innovation Training Course

On 15 July 2024, Murilo Alcantara from Universidade de Aveiro and Heiko Poth from EURICE – European Research and Project Office GmbH successfully completed the innovation training course “How to turn...

Young researchers at GERSEQ44

On 3-5 July 2024, the Annual Meeting of the Spanish Electrochemical Society GERSEQ44 took place in Bilbao, Spain. Universidad de Burgos and IMDEA Energy took the opportunity to attend with their you...

MeBattery at ECOS2024 and MLDES portfolio meeting

At the beginning of July, MeBattery had the chance to combine two events on one occasion! On 1 July 2024, the 2nd meeting of the EIC Pathfinder portfolio MDLES (Mid to long term and systems integrated...

Second Edition of Battery Atlas Released, Emphasises Networking and Highlights European Battery Market Evolution

RWTH Aachen University has released the second, expanded edition of the Battery Atlas. This report focuses on the current state of several market sectors critical to the European battery industry.

B...

MeBattery joins workshop on Optimising Grid Resilience

On 25 June 2024, MeBattery joined the virtual workshop of the SToRIES project on "Optimising Grid Resilience: Exploring Hybrid Energy Storage and AI Solutions”.

The workshop had two parts.

The...

MeBattery Showing Results at ISE 2024

On 9-12 June 2024, the international Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) held their 37th Topical Meeting in Stresa, Italy.

ISE reaches out to researchers and scientists in the field of energy convers...

How is Prussian Blue made? - Long Night of Research at ISTA

On 24 May 2024, the Ibañez group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) participated in the "Long Night of Research", an outreach event for the public taking place once a year in in...

Publication: Investigation of Doping Effects on the Local Electrochemical Activity of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides 2D Materials

In this article, published in Advanced Functional Materials, the MeBattery team from Ruhr-University Bochum describes the findings from their experiments with bidimensional materials (2DM) such as MoS...

MeBattery participating in EIC’s Tech to Market Programme

After submission of an expression of interest, MeBattery was selected to participate in the European Innovation Council’s Tech to Market Programme (EIC T2M), whose goal it is to support innovators fro...

MeBattery Innovations Featured on the EU Innovation Radar Platform

We are happy to announce that two of MeBattery’s promising innovations were added to the EU Innovation Radar Platform recently.

• New organic electroactive compound for Redox Flow Batteries dev...

Workshop on Optimising Grid Resilience - Registration open!

On 25 June 2024, a virtual workshop of the StoRIES Project on "Optimising Grid Resilience: Exploring Hybrid Energy Storage and AI Solutions" is taking place. We are very happy to announce that our c...

Publication: Membrane-free Zn hybrid redox flow battery using water-in-salt aqueous biphasic electrolytes

In this article, published in the Journal of Power Sources, the MeBattery team from IMDEA Energy presents the results of their most recent study. They developed a membrane-free Zn hybrid redox flow ba...

MeBattery at the MRS Spring Meeting 2024

On 22 to 26 April 2024, the MeBattery team from University of Burgos participated in the MRS Spring Meeting 2024 held in Seattle, Washington USA.

On the one hand, Lara Lubian presented the progress...

Biochemistry Day at University of Aveiro

Every year, University of Aveiro holds a Biochemistry Day, at which speakers, along with alumni and students interested in the subject, get together to learn from the most experienced and discuss with...

MeBattery Progress Meeting held in Bochum

On 15-16 April 2024 the MeBattery consortium was happy to be hosted by Wolfgang Schuhmann and Carla Santana Santos and their team for their bi-annual Progress Meeting in Bochum, Germany.

With two...

Recap of MATSUS24

This year’s MATSUS (Materials for Sustainable Development) conference took place from 4-8 March 2024 in Barcelona, Spain. The conference programme consisted of a combination of symposia related to b...

MeBattery Video Featured on CORDIS

Our recently released MeBattery video clip has just been featured on CORDIS, the European Commission's key platform showcasing results from EU-funded research and innovation projects.

The detailed a...

MeBattery engages in EIC initiated activities

Since the beginning of 2024, MeBattery has continued to participate in the activities of the European Innovation Council’s MLDES (Mid to long term and system integrated energy storage) portfolio, and...

Training on electrochemical characterization at IMDEA

In MeBattery, we consider active exchange among the partners as essential to foster excellent research and produce great results. This includes visits of individuals from one institution to the premis...

Transformative Battery Technology for Improved Energy Storage: MeBattery Releases Insightful New Video

Surging energy demands and ambitious climate goals necessitate more powerful and environmentally friendly batteries. In response to this pressing need, the MeBattery research project is developing an...

MeBattery joins the MDLES EIC Pathfinder Portfolio

In 2022, the EIC launched the EIC Pathfinder Challenge “Mid to long term and systems integrated energy storage” (MDLES), which aims to develop a range of breakthrough solutions for thermal and ele...

MeBattery at ILMAT 2023

On November 21-24, 2023, the 7th International Conference on Ionic Liquid-Based Materials (ILMAT) took place in Porto, Portugal.

ILMAT2023 was organized by the Faculty of Science of the University...

Updated Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan Adopted by European Commission

The European Commission has adopted a revised version of the Strategic Energy Technology (SET) Plan in October 2023, which aligns with the objectives set out in the European Green Deal, REPowerEU P...

MeBattery Progress Meeting and 2nd Workshop held in Burgos

On October 23-24, 2023, the MeBattery consortium gathered for their 3rd Progress Meeting in Burgos, Spain where they were welcomed by Edgar Ventosa, Virginia Ruiz and their team at University of Burgo...

European Researchers’ Night 2023 at IMDEA

With the goal of raising awareness about the need to efficiently use resources to build a circular and sustainable world already among the youngest, IMDEA Energy took part in the European Researchers’...

MeBattery presence and poster award at 11th SECM Workshop

The 11th Workshop for Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy (SECM) and related techniques was held at the McGill faculty club (Montreal, Canada) from the September 25-27, 2023 with around 100 participan...

Publication: On the Tunability of Toxicity for Viologen-Derivatives as Anolyte for Neutral Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries

The team around Edgar Ventosa at Burgos University published a new article in ChemSusChem asking the question if viologen-derivatives can be tuned to be less toxic. The long-established toxicity of th...

Research & Innovation Roadmaps published – Paving the Way for a Sustainable Future

With a press release published on 26 September 2023, Batteries Europe, the European Technology and Innovation Platform on Batteries, and Battery 2023+ announced the release of their Research and...

Call for applications: Postdoctoral fellowships

The "La Caixa" Foundation is announcing 40 postdoctoral scholarships for the hiring of excellent researchers who wish to continue their research careers in Spanish and Portuguese territory, in the fie...

2nd MeBattery Workshop on Technology transfer in energy storage

We are happy to announce that our 2nd MeBattery Workshop will take place on October 24, 2023 in Burgos, Spain. It is organised by Virginia Ruiz and Edgar Ventosa from University of Burgos.

The wo...

74th ISE Annual Meeting with strong MeBattery representation

The 74th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry took place on September 3-8, 2023 in Lyon, France.

About 1.800 participants had registered from all across the world. Thus,...

Publication: Unprecedented Aqueous Solubility of TEMPO and its Application as High Capacity Catholyte for Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries

Our colleagues of IMDEA Energy and Burgos University have published a new journal article in Advanced Energy Materials about the possibility of non-functionalized TEMPO, which is typically insoluble i...

Publication: Computer-aided design of membrane-free batteries using conductor-like screening model for real solvents

Our colleagues from Universidade de Aveiro, Burgos University and IMDEA Energy have published a new journal article in the Energy Storage Journal relating to a computer-aided design of membrane-free b...

A Pint of Science for MeBattery

On 22-24 May 2023, the “Pint of Science” event took place simultaneously in 27 countries worldwide. The initiative is set out to bring science closer to society. In Burgos, one of the 58 Spanish citie...

MeBattery joining the HIGREEW Workshop

On 16-17 May 2023 Edgar Ventosa (University of Burgos) and Rebeca Marcilla (IMDEA Energy) were invited to join the Final HIGREEW workshop on “Flow batteries, bringing the technology to the market”....

Eventful May for MeBattery– Bi-annual meeting combined with 1st MeBattery Workshop

On 9-10 May 2023, the MeBattery consortium came together for their 2nd Progress Meeting hosted by Joao Couthino and his team at Universidade de Aveiro.

As with each of our bi-annual consortium mee...

How ISTA is striving to make batteries more environmentally friendly and more efficient

Cutting-edge battery technologies are central to transitioning to a climate-neutral and sustainable society. Global energy-storage strategies are currently shaped by different flow (All-Vanadium and Z...

EU Knowledge Valorisation Week 2023: Learn More on Turning Research into Solutions

Join stakeholders and policymakers at the EU Knowledge Valorisation Week between 25 April and 28 April 2023. The annual event highlights best practices promoting the uptake of research results and sci...

Post Doc position available at IMDEA

MeBattery partner IMDEA is hiring!

They are opening a Postdoctoral Position to work on New Generation of Redox Flow Batteries.

The selected candidate will join the Electrochemical Pro...

1st MeBattery Workshop on "Advanced materials for batteries"

We are happy to announce that our 1st MeBattery Workshop will take place on May 10, 2023 in Aveiro, Portugal. It is jointly organised by Joao Coutinho (University of Aveiro) and Edgar Ventosa (Uni...

Make Your Results Matter: Join the Webinar ‘Horizon Results Platform & Partners: A Value Proposition’

Since its launch in 2019, the Horizon Results Platform has been offering a free, online space where participants in EU-funded projects, such as Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, can advertise the resul...

11th Annual Workshop on Young Researchers at IMDEA

On December 15-16, 2022, IMDEA Energía held its 11th Workshop on Young Researchers, with a programme comprising 26 talks by predoctoral researchers and 21 by postdoctoral researchers, as well as a pos...

MeBattery 1st Progress Meeting in Vienna

Half a year into the project, the MeBattery consortium came together for their 1st Progress Meeting on November 3-4, 2022. The meeting was kindly hosted by IST Austria at their beautiful campus...

Mebattery project in FLORES – the European network of Flow Battery Research Initiatives

FLORES is a network of Flow Battery Research Initiatives and is composed of a group of EU funded projects, created under the Horizon Results Booster (initiated by the European Commission) and set up b...

Join the European Research and Innovation Days 2022 Online on 28 & 29 September

The European Research and Innovation Days are the European Commission’s annual flagship Research and Innovation event, bringing together policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs and the public to deba...

MeBattery project joins the EIC Energy Storage Portfolio

Right at the start of MeBattery, the project was invited to join the Energy Storage Portfolio, launched by the European Innovation Council (EIC), as part of the electrochemical energy storage sub-prog...

Breakthrough Battery Technology to Power the Future: EU Research Project MeBattery Launches

Battery technologies currently considered state-of-the-art suffer from several severe downsides in sustainability, recyclability and energy efficiency. The ambitious MeBattery project strives to lay t...