6th MeBattery Progress Meeting held in St. Ingbert, Germany

From 8–9 April, the MeBattery consortium convened for its sixth progress meeting in St. Ingbert, Germany, hosted by project partner EURICE – European Research and Project Office GmbH. Over two produ...

MeBattery crosses the Ocean – ISE Topical Meeting in Natal, Brazil

In March 2025, Carla Santana Santos and Wolfgang Schuhmann from Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) crossed the Atlantic Ocean to spread the word about MeBattery in Brazil.

They were invited by Prof Dr Gab...

Publication: Enhancing the Stability of Aqueous Membrane-Free Flow Batteries: Insights into Interphase Processes

This study presents a new aqueous membrane-free flow battery based on a novel aqueous biphasic system with enhanced electrolyte properties. The system uses compatible species exhibiting high partition...

MeBattery’s 2nd Advisory Board Meeting held

The MeBattery consortium held a very fruitful 2nd Advisory Board meeting with their industrial external advisors on 12 March 2025.

The meeting started with a brief overview of progress made in the...

University of Aveiro joins MATSUS25

MATSUS, the Materials for Sustainable Development Conference, is a recurring activity in the MeBattery outreach calendar. So, we were very much looking forward to this year’s event which took place on...

Publication: Efficient Confinement of Solid Capacity Booster Powder as Monolithic Structures for High Performance Redox Mediated Flow Batteries

Abstract: Confinement of solid electroactive materials in the external reservoirs of Redox-Mediated Flow Batteries (RMFB) is of critical importance for the development of this family of battery techno...

Publication: Membrane-free redox flow battery: From the idea to the market

Due to their efficiency and ability to decouple energy and power density, redox flow batteries (RFBs) are particularly suited to address the rising energy demand and the need for effective energy stor...

Publication: On the Relevance of Static Cells for Fast Scale-Up of New Redox Flow Battery Chemistries

The search for organic electroactive molecules suitable in aqueous organic flow batteries requires great efforts not only from an electrochemical perspective (weeks of testing) but also from an organi...

Publication: New non-invasive method to monitor and reverse faradaic imbalance in redox flow batteries

State-of-health monitoring is key for the correct operation of redox flow batteries, which are affected by parasite reactions like Faradaic imbalance. This work proposes a new non-invasive monitoring...

Publication: Recessed microelectrodes as a platform to investigate the intrinsic redox process of Prussian Blue analogs for energy storage application

The determination of the intrinsic properties of solid active material candidates is essential for their performance optimization. However, macroscopic electrodes and related analytical techniques sho...

Investigating the mediating process with synchrotron radiation

On 13-15 December 2024, the MeBattery researchers from Burgos University travelled to Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire, UK to carry out some operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy investigations...

Publication: Insights of the Proton Transport Efficiency of a Membrane Electrode Assembly by Operando Monitoring of the Local Proton Concentration during Water Oxidation

Direct estimation of the reaction environment, e.g., local pH at the anode side of a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) of zero gap electrolyzer, is essential to understand possible key factors, which...

EIC Publishes Strategic Plan for Mid- to Long-Term Energy Storage Portfolio

The European Innovation Council (EIC) has released its Strategic Plan for the “Mid to Long Term and Systems Integrated Energy Storage” (MDLES) portfolio. Launched in 2022, the portfolio focuses on dev...

MeBattery Progress Meeting and 3rd Workshop held in Madrid

Kindly hosted by IMDEA Energy team around Rebeca Marcilla and Paula Navalpotro , the MeBattery consortium had the pleasure to come together in Móstoles, Madrid on 8-9 October 2024 for the bi-annual Pr...

How to explain a redox flow battery in a simply way? - European Researchers’ Night 2024 at IMDEA

On the occasion of the European Researchers' Night on 27 September 2024, IMDEA Energy organized an activity open to the public to bring science closer to children aged 5-10. The theme of the activity...

MeBattery’s 1st Advisory Board Meeting

With all contracts being in place, MeBattery officially kicked-off their cooperation with their external advisors by holding a 1st Advisory Board meeting on 27 September 2024.

Since this meeting was...

University of Aveiro at EQUIFASE 2024

On 9-12 September 2024, the 13th Iberoamerican Conference on Phase Equilibria and Fluid Properties for Process Design (EQUIFASE 2024) took place in Évora, Portugal. The conference format was establish...

Ruhr-University Bochum at Electrochemistry 2024

Under the topic of “Global Thinking Local Acting”, the Electrochemistry 2024 conference, organised by the German Chemical Society (GDCh), took place in Braunschweig on 16-19 September 2024.

The team...

Publication: Controlling surface wetting in high-alkaline electrolytes for single facet Pt oxygen evolution electrocatalytic activity mapping by scanning electrochemical cell microscopy

Scanning electrochemical cell microscopy (SECCM) has been used to explore structure-electrocatalytic activity relationships through high-resolution mapping of local activities of electrocatalysts. How...

Junior Scientist Initiative of the MLDES Portfolio

On 9 September 2024, David Arnaiz Gil from Burgos University participated in the Junior Scientist initiative of the EIC Portfolio “Mid to Long Term and Systems Integrated Energy Storage” in which...

Burgos University at BeLi2024

Publication: Nanoelectrochemical Platform for Elucidating the Reaction between a Solid Active Material and a Dissolved Redox Species for Mediated Redox-Flow Batteries

Mediated processes using a solid material, often called “solid booster”, have been proposed to increase the energy density in redox flow batteries (RFB). The strategy alters the energy storage in the...

3rd MeBattery Workshop - Registration Open!

We are excited to announce that our 3rd MeBattery Workshop will take place on October 9, 2024 in Móstoles, Madrid, Spain. It is organised by Rebeca Marcilla and Paula Navalpotro from IMDEA Energy.

T...

MeBattery conquers the 75th ISE Annual Meeting in Montreal

On 18-23 August 2024, MeBattery set out to join the 75th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry in Montreal, Canada.
Under the topic of “Electrochemistry – Science and Techno...

Results from Ruhr University Bochum presented at ESEAC

On 22-26 July 2024, Wolfgang Schuhmann and Carla Santana Santos from Ruhr University Bochum participated in the 19th International conference on Electroanalysis ESEAC 2024.

Wolfgang and Carla p...

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...

Publication: Anodic H2O2 Generation in Carbonate-Based Electrolytes—Mechanistic Insight from Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy

For the anodic H2O2 generation, it has been shown that the electrolyte composition can steer the reaction pathway toward increased H2O2 generation. In this publication, Carla Santana Santos and her te...

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...