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.
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.
