A new scientific paper published in ACS Energy Letters highlights the transformative potential of high-entropy materials (HEMs) for next-generation electrocatalysts. The article, “Bringing Order to Chaos in High-Entropy Electrocatalysts” (DOI link here), authored by Dr.…
Today, Oxhyd Energy S.L. is officially launched as a new technology startup created in Barcelona as a spin-off of the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC) and the Catalan Institution of Research and Advanced Studies…
Designing climate-neutral neighbourhoods and districts requires reliable and comprehensive data that is aligned with urban city strategies for climate neutrality. Digital Twins have emerged as essential tools, supporting visualization, informed decision-making and stakeholder participation in…
IREC has led the SUPORT consortium, which has developed and validated an innovative process to produce sustainable maritime fuels from wastewater and CO₂ generated during its treatment, in collaboration with the Port of Barcelona, Aigües…
IREC is pleased to host Chen Liu as a postdoctoral researcher through a Beatriu de Pinós (BP2024) fellowship. Dr. Liu will join the Power Systems Department at IREC under the supervision of José Luis Domínguez,…
The recycling of lithium-ion batteries represents a strategic challenge for the energy transition, as it generates a new complex fraction of waste called black mass, a heterogeneous mixture containing metals such as lithium, cobalt, nickel…
The new European Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings (EPBD) establishes binding targets that require accelerating the renovation of the existing building stock, yet the annual energy renovation rate remains very low, at 1%.…
The HySPRINT project (Hydrogen Scale-up and Production through Innovative high-temperature SOEC manufacturing techniques optimized with AI and Quality control Tools) has officially started, aiming to make high-temperature electrolysis cells more sustainable, cost-effective, and recyclable. The…
As a reference centre in advanced optical spectroscopy and artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted monitoring systems, IREC participates in the PROSAFE project, together with Lenz Instruments, a company specialized in the design and manufacture of advanced inspection…
As digitalization accelerated and the Big Data era expanded, the need for faster and more energy-efficient computing architectures became increasingly evident. Traditional Von Neumann systems could no longer keep pace with modern workloads—particularly artificial intelligence—because…