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20 May

IRES launches webinar on Life Cycle Assessment for Sustainable Metal Coating Development

NICKEFFECT project partner IRES just launched a new webinar focused on "Life Cycle Assessment: methodology and practical application in metal coating development." This insightful session is a key deliverable within IRES's responsibilities in the NICKEFFECT project, where they are leading the development of the Decision Support Tool incorporating a sustainable by design approach. As a crucial partner in NICKEFFECT, IRES plays a vital role in ensuring the project's commitment to sustainability and safety. Their objectives within the project include: Thoroughly assessing the chemical risks associated with the production of selected materials; Rigorous evaluation of the environmental impact and economic aspects of the developed products throughout their entire life cycle; In-depth investigation into the recovery and valorisation of the innovative Ni-X materials; Implementation of advanced high-throughput computational methods to design materials with enhanced performance and durability, meeting specific project targets; Development of a user-friendly online decision support tool to guide material...

17 Dec

Ensuring the economic and environmental viability of fuel cell technologies through materials separation and recycling

by Laura Cyrne

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Recycling as a key of material circularity and societal acceptance Production of energy from renewable sources is one of the keys to face the ongoing environmental crisis. The intermittency of renewable energies (wind, solar) pushed the emergence of energy storage technologies and industries such as the battery industry for storage as electrical energy, or the hydrogen industry for storage as chemical energy. Hydrogen can be produced through water electrolysis during energy overproduction periods to be transported and used on a different location and time using fuel cells, and notably Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFCs). These devices can convert hydrogen back into electricity and only emit water and heat, however, they rely on the use of raw materials that are expensive and can be critical or pose environmental issues such as platinum group metals, and perfluorinated polymers. There is a necessity to guarantee the recyclability of the constitutive materials of new...

02 Oct

Using computational quantum chemistry to understand how materials behave

by Laura Cyrne

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Materials selection is at the heart of the NICKEFFECT project. Replacing Pt-group metals with Ni is far from trivial. Materials with new compositions, structures, and topologies have to be explored and their physical and chemical properties need to be assessed. Traditionally, this exploration has been performed experimentally: a material is first synthesized and then tested in a lab to check whether it fulfills the requirements related to its application. This approach is long, requires resources, and can lead to failure at any step of the process. The scientist iterates through materials until a good solution is found, through trial and error or serendipity. Fortunately, in the last few decades, computational tools have reached a maturity where the stability and physical properties of materials can be predicted before synthesizing them. These tools rely on density-functional theory (DFT) or more recently on machine learning (ML) when data is available. Such computations are not...

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IRES launches webinar on Life Cycle Assessment for Sustainable Metal Coating Development

Ensuring the economic and environmental viability of fuel cell technologies through materials separation and recycling

Using computational quantum chemistry to understand how materials behave

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