RELiEF partner ZSW present at electrochemical conference in Italy: “Electrochemical energy for a greener and more sustainable future society”.

Stresa, Italy, June 10th 2024

The 37th Topical Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry: “Electrochemical energy for a greener and more sustainable future society” took place in Stresa, Italy, between the 9th and 12th of June 2024.

This year’s event dwelled among other topics into lithium-based technologies, which correspond to the core of RELiEF’s work.

Our partner Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (ZSW), represented by Dr Marilena Mancini, Lead of Work Package 6 „Material Validation and Process Demonstration”, opened the conference with the session focusing on the fundamental understanding and application aspects of lithium-based technologies.

The work she presented explained the electrochemical performance of recycled anode and cathode active materials, including general aspects of LiBs recycling (such as new EU regulations and industrial approaches) and relithiation of NMC and LFP cathodes. This provided the opportunity to present the work carried out within RELiEF, including first results and recycling of graphite from spent LiBs, validation in new LiBs (electrochemical results).

The conference therefore helped to attract a new audience to the RELiEF project, as well as to learn more about the work of the projects involved in the Cluster Hub "Cluster Hub for the production of raw materials for batteries from European resources" as RELiEF, which also presented their first results.