Newsletter #8

Dear all,

Here are the October news with a combination of public and corporate initiatives (such as the Nobel Price in Economics integrating innovation and climate with economic growth or the investment announced by BASF and Nornickel to build cobalt capacities in Finland or the technology consortium created by BMW, Northvolt and Umicore with the objective of making battery cells sustainable by establishing a closed life cycle loop) and a variety of breakthrough innovations in the field of organic flow batteries, low energy catalysts, recyclable electronic devices, optimized repair of aeronautics parts, improved monitoring of autonomous vehicles and use of CO2 as raw materials for petrochemicals monomers.

Victoire de Margerie & Philippe Varin

CRITICAL RESOURCES

Automotive World, October 15th
BMW, Northvolt and Umicore create a joint technology consortium with the objective of making battery cells sustainable by establishing a closed life cycle loop

Reuters, October 22nd
BASF and Nornickel to build a new battery materials plant in Finland

Science, October 31st
New generation of iron based organic flow batteries 

MATERIALS SCIENCES

Rice University, October 4th
New catalytic nanoparticles, made of copper and ruthenium, convert ammonia into hydrogen fuel at ambient pressure using only light energy

Australian National University, October 5th
New generation of high-performance electronic devices made with organic materials that will be biodegradable or that can be easily recycled, promising to help substantially reduce e-waste 

DESIGN & DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, October 8th
Laser addictive manufacturing optimized thanks to modeling software using nuclear technique

Tech Xplore, October 29th
Machine learning developed at Berkeley to improve traffic flow and air quality while reducing energy consumption

SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVES

Science Daily, October 8th
Nobel Price in Economics integrating innovation and climate with economic growth

Science News, October 30th
CO2 on copper catalyst turns into ethylene gas and liquid acetate