Energy storage is one of the keys to the management and distribution of energy resources in the coming years. Three major application areas can be identified, which are delineated by the size of the storage devices: portable applications, automotive and support/management of electricity grids.

The COP21 Paris agreement provides for 100 million electric vehicles to circulate in 2030 (electric vehicles, EVs, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, PHEVs, fuel cell electric vehicles, FC). Proton conduction polymeric fuel cells (PEMFCs) or anionic (AEMFCs) operating at temperatures between 50 ° C and 150 ° C are undoubtedly of great interest for possible applications in the transport sector.

Quick and clean chemical reactions limiting the usage of toxic or hazardous reactants and solvents, enabled by innovative single-atom catalysts. A team of researchers from the Materials Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Department (Politecnico di Milano) and the Quantum Chemistry Laboratory at the Department of Materials Science (University of Milano-Bicocca) reached this goal. Dr. Giovanni Di Liberto, Prof.