From Wednesday, June 22, until today, collaborators of the ESiM Project (Energy Storage in Molecules) convened in Dresden for their inaugural meeting. Project partners from Germany, Spain, France, and The Netherlands showcased their individual work packages and outlined the roadmap for the 4-year initiative.

Led by Dr. Francesca Moresco of the cfaed SMM Group, the European Pathfinder Open project ESiM aims to harness intramolecular properties, such as rotations and conformational changes, for energy storage. ESiM focuses on storing and releasing energy within specific intramolecular degrees of freedom. The project integrates theory and simulation, molecular design and synthesis, scanning probe microscopy and manipulation, solid-state physics, and nanotechnology.