Improving battery production processes

EU project for efficient and sustainable European production of lithium-ion batteries

20-Mar-2024 - In the recently launched project BATTwin, funded by the EU, researchers are developing digital twins of battery factories. The goal is to make lithium-ion battery production in Europe more efficient and sustainable. Digital twins are computer models that digitally replicate the processes in a ...

Predicting unpredictable reactions

Research paves the way for simulating catalysts under reaction conditions

11-Jun-2020 - Computational catalysis, a field that simulates and accelerates the discovery of catalysts for chemicals production, has largely been limited to simulations of idealized catalyst structures that do not necessarily represent structures under realistic reaction conditions. New research from the ...

Smog-eating graphene composite reduces atmospheric pollution

05-Dec-2019 - Graphene Flagship partners the University of Bologna, Politecnico di Milano, CNR, NEST, Italcementi HeidelbergCement Group, the Israel Institute of Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, and the University of Cambridge have developed a graphene-titania photocatalyst that degrades up to ...

Short, Ultrashort, Sub-Cycle Short

Making light pulses ever-shorter is one of the goals in ultrafast optics.

04-Jun-2015 - Ultrashort light pulses are a valuable achievement. They make it possible to observe chemical reactions, opening up the field of femtochemistry. Other current and/or future applications include high capacity telecommunications systems, photonic switching devices, optical coherence tomography, and ...

Eclectic Enzymes

Easily Modified Building Blocks for Drug Design

06-Sep-2010 - In the pursuit of biologically active compounds, it is often necessary to be able to control the stereochemistry at predefined positions in a molecular skeleton. The search for ways to prepare chiral building blocks with known configuration that also show structural differentiation is important. ...