Over four years of intensive research and development, the COBRA consortium has achieved significant advancements in Li-ion battery technology, eliminating cobalt and enhancing all key components of the battery system. The project has successfully produced a prototype…
The POLITE project – which stands for “Development of Prototypes for POwer-to-Liquid TEchnologies” – has reached to an end on May 31st, 2024. The main goal of the project was to develop prototypes for the electrochemical…
IREC, in its mission to disseminate and promote scientific culture in the field of energy generation and use, presents the project “Gara OpenLAB“: a project aimed at stimulating citizen participation in science and technology on…
AGAUR has recently granted two fellowships for hiring predoctoral research staff to IREC researchers. The FI-2024 Joan Oró fellowships have a duration of 3 years and are intended for people who carry out a PhD…
The Institut de Recerca en Energia de Catalunya (IREC) has commissioned the engineering firm Colomer-Rifà, SLP to design the PRIMA Platform for Testing and Demonstration for the Energy Transition and its experimental fields. The design…
A European consortium of nineteen partners from the automotive industry, research and technology specialists, has managed to develop a complete system based on cobalt-free lithium batteries for electric vehicles, which integrates a series of innovations…
The consumption of natural gas represents 20-25% of the primary energy consumed today in Catalonia, necessary for industrial activity, and for applications that are difficult to electrify in the short and medium term. To replace…
DocFam+ is a 5-year doctoral training programme in Functional Advanced Materials presented by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and coordinated through the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) in collaboration with several partner research institutions from the region, six…
Barcelona has celebrated the Science Festival, reaching its 17th edition with a program full of innovative and outreach activities. Researchers from the Department of Nanoionics and Fuel Cells at IREC participated in this annual event,…
The Mad for Science (Bojos per l’Energia) course, an initiative led by the Catalan Institute of Energy (ICAEN) with the collaboration of IREC, celebrated the closing ceremony and diploma presentation of its third edition on Friday,…