The EU HarveStore project is creating wireless energy systems called “μ-harvestorers” for powering IoT nodes. In addition to being small in scale and powerful, these fingertip-size devices are also environmentally friendly. HarveStore aims to use disruptive concepts from…
Building- and product-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV and PIPV) are identified as key enabling technologies to make “near-zero energy buildings” and “net-zero energy districts” a reality. The mass adoption of BIPV and PIPV solutions can only be…
Marc Torrell, researcher from the Nanoionics and Fuel Cells group at IREC, and Miguel Laguna from ICMA, are Guest Editors of the Special Issue on “Performance and degradation mechanisms of electrode materials for solid oxide…
The Knowledge Industry Grants are aimed at funding innovation projects to boost the technology transfer and cooperation between academia and the industrial sector. Two types of grants exist: Type A: “Llavor Grants” for (pre-prototype) innovative projects…
IREC is the leader of the R+D+i network Energy for Society (XRE4S), a transversal and interdisciplinary network with the aim to impulse technology transfer in the energy sector, while promoting the energy transition at the…
Four national R+D+I projects under the “retos investigación” call start this summer. The grant for these research projects include oriented investigations as well as their applications in later phases of technological development and experimentation. The…
The project entitled “Electrostatic control of the jet positioning for ultrafast high resolution 3D printing” has recently been granted. 3D printing technologies are foreseen to change the way we design and produce almost everything. Soon,…
This year, the Festival of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 10alamenos9 has organised an online competition of nanostories with the participation of secondary school students (“ESO” and “batxillerat”) with the aim of disseminating nanoscience and nanotechnology among…
The Generalitat de Catalunya, via ICAEN, is promoting the climate change law number 16/2017 and the proposed law on Energy Transition in Catalonia. The National Pact for the Energy Transition of Catalonia now also aims…
SENSATE proposes ground breaking ideas and concepts combining very innovative thin film materials and highly asymmetric selective contacts with dipoles, for the development of non-intrusive and universal solar energy harvester. The project starts in June…