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Apr 30, 20242 min read
CoFBAT hosts its final General Assembly
CoFBAT hosted its final General Assembly in Brussels, Belgium on the 20th March 2024. Representatives from Vrije Universiteit Brussel...
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Apr 30, 20242 min read
CoFBAT project hosts its final event
The CoFBAT project's culminating event, held in Brussels, Belgium on March 21, 2024, provided an extensive overview of the main goals,...
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Dec 12, 20231 min read
CoFBAT partnered at Scientific Symposium on Gen3b Batteries
CoFBAT poster showcased at the Scientific Symposium The high-voltage gel polymer electrolyte cell prototype developments were presented...
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Dec 12, 20231 min read
ABEE officially opened its headquarters in Ninove, Belgium
ABEE President Dr. Noshin Omar and the Flemish Minister-President during the ceremony of cutting the ribbon. On November 30, 2023 partner...
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Dec 4, 20232 min read
CoFBAT presents at the Battery Innovation Days
The Battery Innovation Days (BID) celebrated its third edition in the heart of Bordeaux, France on November 14 and 15, 2023, highlighting...
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Dec 1, 20231 min read
REGISTER NOW: CoFBAT Final event
The final event for the CoFBAT project is scheduled to take place, providing a thorough summary of its main goals, notable achievements,...
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Dec 1, 20231 min read
CoFBAT hosts its final webinar!
The organisation of the third and final online webinar has started! It will take place on the 29th of February 2024 via TEAMS. The...
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Jun 8, 20231 min read
Installing batteries in buildings for stationary applications - Bouygues Energies
Partner Bouygues Energies and Services has conducted research on installing batteries for stationary applications in buildings. Due to...
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Jun 8, 20231 min read
CoFBAT contributed to the BATRAW General Assembly
Date: Wednesday 19.04.2023 Place: Grenoble, France Fabian Diaz of MIMITECH was invited to present current results and share gathered...
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Jun 8, 20231 min read
CoFBAT and BATRAW: collaboration of H2020 projects
Critical raw material supply is a key issue in battery development. More efficient use of resources and efficient recycling processes are...
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May 31, 20231 min read
We should use cobalt-free batteries, according to a brief article by Samson Lai
In a recent Fresh Air interview, Samson Lai heard about the sources of the cobalt we use in batteries, which inspired him to write an...
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May 31, 20231 min read
The CoFBAT Consortium met on 26 April for its General Assembly
The eighth General Assembly of the CoFBAT project was organized by VARTA Microbattery at their headquarters in Ellwangen, Germany on the...
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May 31, 20231 min read
CoFBAT hosted its 2nd Webinar on Material and component upscaling & recyclability and sustainability
On the 26th of January, the second CoFBAT Webinar on material and component upscaling & recyclability and sustainability took place. The...
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Jan 31, 20231 min read
Outcomes of the second CoFBAT webinar
On 24 January CoFBAT held its second webinar “ Webinar on material and component upscaling & recyclability and sustainability” with over...
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Jan 2, 20231 min read
CoFBAT at the Nordic Battery Conference (NordBatt) 2022
Our partner IFE has participated in the NordBatt 2022 Conference from 26 until 28 October 2022. The event was hosted at the Chalmers...
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Jan 2, 20232 min read
Interview to Jonathan Schubert from VARTA Microbattery
In occasion of the first newsletter of 2023, we talked with Jonathan Schubert from the electrode development team of VARTA Microbattery....
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Jan 2, 20231 min read
VUB presentation at IMMC 2022
The 21st International Metallurgy and Materials Congress (IMMC 2022) was held on 6-8 October 2022 at Istanbul Beylikdüzü Tüyap Fair and...
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Jan 2, 20231 min read
CoFBAT at the Graz Battery Days 2022
From 19 until 21 September 2022, partner VARTA Innovation (VI) participated in the Graz Battery Days in Austria. The Graz Battery days...
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Dec 15, 20221 min read
CIC energiGUNE blog post on Cobalt-free cathode materials
CIC energiGUNE recently published the blog post "Cobalt-free cathode materials for the new generation of Lithium-ion battaries" by Dr....
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Nov 29, 20221 min read
The CoFBAT Consortium met finally in person for its General Assembly
On 17 and 18 November 2022, the seventh General Assembly of the CoFBAT project took place in Spain for the first time in a fully...
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Nov 18, 20221 min read
Join CoFBAT webinar on upscaling of the advanced materials
On Thursday 26 January 2023 the CoFBAT Project will organise the webinar "Material and component upscaling & recyclability and ...
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Sep 8, 20221 min read
The results from WP5 of CoFBAT presented at the Power of the Future Conference in Vitoria, Spain
The 5th edition of the International Forum on Progress and Trends in Battery and Capacitor Technologies was held in Vitoria, Spain. The...
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Jun 23, 20222 min read
A look on from outside the project: Dr. Jean-Francois Drillet (DECHEMA)
Dr. Jean-Francois Drillet is head of "energy storage & conversion" team at DECHEMA research institute (DFI) in Frankfurt a. M., Germany....
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Jun 22, 20222 min read
A look on from outside the project: Dr. Jordi Jacas (IREC)
Dr. Jordi Jacas obtained his PhD in Materials at Sheffield University, working on the electrical and electrochemical characterization of...
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Jun 22, 20222 min read
Development of 21700 Cell - Change of the format for demonstrator cells
The potential of the developed technologies and materials in the CoFBAT project will be displayed by the construction of demonstrator...
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Jun 22, 20222 min read
Upscaling of TNO material (TORRECID/CEA)
CoFBAT investigates the use of a mixed niobium/titanium oxide, namely TiNb2O7 (TNO), that retains the safety advantages of the LTO but...
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May 17, 20221 min read
CoFBAT partners met for the 6th General Assembly
On 27 and 28 April, the sixth General Assembly of the CoFBAT project took place in a hybrid format. Leitat Technology welcomed some...
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Dec 22, 20212 min read
UPDATES FROM THE PROJECT // December 2021
Let us make a bit of history of what happened in the project… By M0 we put our hands to work. By M9 we defined the cell and material...
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Nov 30, 20211 min read
CoFBAT holds its first hybrid General Assembly on 15 and 16 November in Castellon, Spain
On 15 and 16 November, the fifth General Assembly of the CoFBAT project took place - and for the first time in hybrid format! Some...
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Nov 3, 20212 min read
CoFBAT at the Energy Storage Global Conference in Brussels, BELGIUM/HYBRID
This year, the Energy Storage Global Conference (ESGC) organised by CoFBAT partner EASE was held in hybrid form on 19-21 October in...
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Jul 1, 20212 min read
CoFBAT develops a sustainable battery system for the future
by Fabian Diaz, Mimitech Development of the batteries for the future takes more than only working on the device performance. The new...
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Jun 28, 20212 min read
PITT characterization in CoFBAT
by Etienne Kipping, LEITAT Managing Technologies Among all the characterizations carried out in the CoFBAT project, PITT may not be the...
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Jun 28, 20212 min read
Analytical tools and techniques that we use to study materials and ageing Raman
by Marian Cabañero, CICenergigune Raman spectroscopy is a vibrational characterization technique that provides unique structural...
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May 11, 20211 min read
CoFBAT holds its online Fouth General Assembly on 28 and 29 April
On 28th and 29th April the fourth General Assembly of the CoFBAT project took place, the impossibility to travel around Europe led to...
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Mar 15, 20212 min read
Interview with EASE
For a chance to get to know better the works of the project, we are introducing to you a series of interviews with our project partners,...
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Mar 12, 20211 min read
CoFBAT hosts its first online event
On March 10th, 2021, the first out of three webinars was held online. More than 40 attendees, of which half were attendees from outside...
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Feb 19, 20212 min read
Interview with Torrecid
For a chance to get to know better the works of the project, we are introducing to you a series of interviews with our project partners,...
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Jan 29, 20212 min read
Interview with SOLVAY
For a chance to get to know better the works of the project, we are introducing to you a series of interviews with our project partners,...
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Jan 8, 20212 min read
Interview with CIC energiGUNE
For a chance to get to know better the works of the project, we are introducing to you a series of interviews with our project partners,...
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Dec 9, 20201 min read
CoFBAT presented at event organised by INEA
On 3-4 December 2020,CofBAT participated in the Clustering workshop “H2020 Low TRL Smart Grids and Storage Projects” organized by INEA...
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Nov 27, 20202 min read
From the Innovation Manager: some figures on Cobalt
By Rahul Gopalakrishnan, ABEE - Innovation Manager for CoFBAT project CoFBAT is a European project which revolves around one main motto,...
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Nov 27, 20203 min read
Interview with CIDETEC Energy Storage
For a chance to get to know better the works of the project, we are introducing to you a series of interviews with our project partners,...
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Nov 25, 20202 min read
UPDATES FROM THE PROJECT // November 2020
After the definition of CoFBAT’s use cases and expected Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), it was time for the next step and to define...
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Nov 10, 20202 min read
The European Commission identifies new entries for the list of critical materials in 2020
Europe's quest for becoming a competitive actor in the global battery value chain highly depends on the materials targeted for their...
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Nov 6, 20202 min read
Interview with Uniresearch
For a chance to get to know better the works of the project, we are introducing to you a series of interviews to our project partners,...
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Nov 5, 20201 min read
CoFBAT holds its online third General Assembly on 4 and 5 November 2020
On Wednesday 4 and Thursday 5 November, the third General Assembly of the CoFBAT project took place. Once again, the impossibility to...
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Oct 23, 20201 min read
CoFBAT at the Lyon Batteries event, 7-9 October 2020
CoFBAT has published its first project poster, targeting the scientific community. The document presents the scope of CoFBAT, listing its...
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Jun 2, 20202 min read
Use cases, KPIs and Tests Definition
By Dietrich Volker, VARTA Storage The main goal of the CoFBAT project is to develop a new-generation-batteries for energy storage,...
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May 22, 20202 min read
Innovation Management in CoFBAT
By Noshin Omar, CoFBAT Innovation Manager, Avesta Battery & Energy Engineering The CoFBAT concept and innovation strategy consists of...
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May 14, 20201 min read
Second General Assembly of CoFBAT // 12 May 2020
CoFBAT has had its second General Assembly on 12 May 2020. The meeting took place on an online basis given the current situation, and...
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