ESiM Project News

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A collaboration between 4 ESiM partners (TU Dresden, IPF Dresden, CNRS Toulouse, CSIC San Sebastian) has shown that a zwitterionic single-molecule machine can work in two different ways under bias voltage pulses. It is a unidirectional rotor while anchored on the surface. It is a fast drivable molecule vehicle (nanocar) while physisorbed.

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The first ESiM project meeting will take place at the PICO LAB of CEMES-CNRS in Toulouse on February 27th and 28th, 2023.

Principal investigators, postdoc and PhD students working in ESiM will discuss the first results of the project and the preparation of the first ESiM project review.

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ESiM kickoff meeting - group photo of the project collaborators
ESiM kickoff meeting - group photo of the project collaborators

From Wednesday, 22 June until today, the collaborators of the ESiM Project (Energy Storage in Molecules) came together in Dresden for their initial meeting. The project partners from Germany, Spain, France, and The Netherlands presented their individual work packages and discussed the roadmap of the 4-year project.

The European Pathfinder Open project ESiM, led by cfaed SMM Group Leader Dr. Francesca Moresco, aims to use intramolecular properties (rotations, conformational changes) for energy storage. ESiM investigates storing (and releasing) of energy in a few specific intramolecular degrees of freedom. The project combines theory and simulation, molecular design and synthesis, scanning probe microscopy and manipulation, solid-state physics and nanotechnology.

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The EU HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDEROPEN proposal Energy Storage in Molecules (ESiM) was recently approved and will tentatively start in April 2022.
ESiM aims at creating the scientific basis for addressing the pressing challenges of a scalable clean energy storage. The ESiM strategy makes use of the conformational degrees of freedom of organic molecules, which will be arranged in dense molecular arrays on a surface. This concept circumvents the limits of battery technology which is based on ions flow and on environmentally harmful substances.