A new Nature Communications paper entitled “A high-entropy manganite in an ordered nanocomposite for long-term application in solid oxide cells” is released today, May the 11th, 2021. The communication is led by Albert Tarancón, ICREA…
The Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC) has hosted the Secretary General for Innovation at Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain (MICINN), Teresa Riesgo and the Commissioner of 2030 Agenda at Barcelona City Council,…
The NFFA-Europe PILOT project has been launched, the extension to 2026 of NFFA-Europe, whose first five-year term ended on February 28, 2021. NFFA-Europe is a distributed research infrastructure that integrates nanofoundries (synthesis and manipulation of…
AGAUR has recently given two FI-2021 grants for hiring novice research staff to two researchers at IREC to develop their PhD thesis: Natalia Kostretsova, title “3D printing of ceramic-based complex structures for SOFC/SOEC applications” supervised…
Imagine if we could integrate a photovoltaic panel in any kind of building surface or in any kind of urban furniture without having any constraint regarding size, shape and weight. This would open a new…
The SEHTOP project , coordinated between IREC, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid and the Instituto de Catálisis y Petroleoquímica of CSIC, has designed and developed novel materials that are able to take…
IREC collaborates with the Public Health Agency of Barcelona (Agencia de Salut Pública) to study the cooperative housing based on right-of-use model, from the point of view of energy efficiency, environmental comfort and health. The Thermal…
A total of eight research groups have participated in the first edition of the Lab to Market (L2M) program, an initiative promoted by the R+D+i Energy for Society Network (XRE4S) with the aim of helping…
A paper featured on the inside back cover of this month’s edition of Small present nickel iron diselenide nanorods, which are produced in solution and used electrocatalytically to convert methanol to formate at a high…
The Thermal Energy and Building Performance research group of IREC has developed at the Semi-virtual Energy Integration LABoratory (SEILAB), located in Tarragona, a new system for the safe handling of refrigerant R-290 (propane) within the…