Highlights

Based on a literature review and the analysis of an actual battery disassembly process conducted by an expert, the SCAR project identified three research areas for the robotic disassembly of electric vehicle batteries and developed digital and physical mock-ups of the Peugeot e-208 battery pack to prepare for experimental development.

As part of her PhD, Rébecca Bazin developed an electrochemical functionalization strategy for self-supporting carbon electrodes to increase the stability window of aqueous supercapacitors while preserving their capacitive properties and improving their energy density. The formation of an electronically insulating, ion-conducting and hydrophobic film helped prevent parasitic reactions responsible for stability losses.

On 16 November 2026, Anna-Maria Habak (DISCOVERY project) will defend her PhD thesis on a new family of ferrocenes as posolytes for aqueous redox flow batteries.

This article introduces a new function, ALF, which analyses the spatial and angular distribution of molecules generated by simulations to identify regions where molecules exhibit a pronounced preferential orientation.

At a fixed structural disorder, the capacity indeed increases as the pore size decreases below one nanometer.

From 1 to 4 June 2026, PEPR Batteries held its first summer school, BAT360°, in La Grande Motte, France. Designed for the programme’s PhD students and postdocs, the school offered a 360° view of the scientific, technological and societal challenges of batteries, combining lectures, specialised seminars and discussions with experts.