That was the title of the second GRAPHERGIA Hub Webinar Series: ‘Sustainability Assessment and Eco-Design for Graphene-Based Products’. We hosted this online session on the 28th of March to speak about the eco-design principles applied in graphene-enabled innovations, offer insights about sustainability assessment methodologies for products eco-design, and last, but not least, to present and share a survey to collect the participants’s feedback about Social Life Cycle Assessment.
Our partners Matteo Maccanti, LCA Analyst at Next Technology Tecnotessile, and Despoina Batsouli, Head of Advanced Materials Division at Adamant Composites, moderated by Mona Marill, Project Manager at AUSTRALO, discussed about sustainability principles to evaluate the environmental and socio-economic methodologies for products’ eco-design. Matteo and Despoina presented the eco-design principles for materials, process and development phases, while sharing insights from the key methodologies used for sustainability research, including Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Life Cycle Cost (LCC) and Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA).
They finished the webinar inviting the attendees to fill our GRAPHERGIA Social Sustainability survey out, gathering data from companies and workers for our research activities developing novel laser-assisted graphene production methods for energy harvesting and storage; while in parallel, addressing the social impact along the life cycle of smart-textiles products, and battery production.
Your input is the most valuable factor of this research, so thank you very much for your participation.
In case you missed our event, you can read the article, watch the recording and download our presentation here.
GRAPHERGIA Hub: A Meeting Place for Graphene Enabled Solutions
This webinar was part of a new initiative that we launched at the beginning of this year: the GRAPHERGIA Hub, a meeting place connecting stakeholders across European, national, and local landscapes.
Whether you’re a researcher, entrepreneur, or industry leader, the GRAPHERGIA consortium runs a dynamic space for collaboration, knowledge exchange, and strategic partnerships for individuals or teams passionate about driving innovation in graphene-enabled energy solutions, novel smart textiles or advancing future battery technologies.
In GRAPHERGIA, we host a webinar series dedicated to three domains: intellectual property rights, technical webinars and scientific sessions. The aim of our webinar series is to share with you insights and findings from the GRAPHERGIA project empowering future energy harvesting and storage with graphene.
Our first webinar was celebrated on the 30th of January, focused on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Management, to introduce EU researchers from our partners and other Graphene Flagship projects developing innovative solutions deploying graphene-technologies to the protection of innovation with European patents.
In the session ‘How to Protect an Invention in Europe – European Patent’, Dr. Konstantinos Vavekis, Founder of our partner Euglottia IP Legal and Financial Services, shared information on the concrete strategies and methodologies that can be implemented during a project lifetime, and beyond.
Do you want to join our journey towards a more sustainable future? Connect in the GRAPHERGIA Hub, and become a ‘hubber’!
Unveiling the Team Behind the GRAPHERGIA Project: Watch our Interviews with Despoina and Elena
Back in the Graphene Week 2024 celebrated last October in Prague (Czech Republic), we interviewed some of our partners, including Despoina Batsouli from Adamant Composites and Elena Merli from Next Technology Tecnotessile. In their interviews, they speak about the activities they worked on during the first year of GRAPHERGIA and reflect about the impact that graphene and other 2D materials will have in the European energy landscape.
Watch their interviews to discover what they think about it:
Each of them also presented one poster about the GRAPHERGIA project that you can download to read it below:
- Smart Textiles based on Triboelectric Nanogenerators.
- Innovative Pilot Lines for Sustainable Graphene-based Flexible & Structural Energy Harvesting & Storage Devices.
Speaking about the Graphene Week, the Graphene Flagship has already announced the dates for the 2025 edition, that will be celebrated in the Italian city of Vicenza from the 22nd to the 26th of September. We encourage you to save the dates, and hope to see you there. But in the meantime, until September arrives, you can watch our video about GRAPHERGIA’s participation in last year’s event:
Some GRAPHERGIA Project Results: Our First Scientific Publications
Hachem Mortada, PhD student at ESIEE PARIS / ESYCOM Lab, a school of engineering which is a founding member of our partner Université Gustave Eiffel, gave an oral presentation at the 23rd International Conference on Micro and Miniature Power Systems, Self-Powered Sensors and Energy Autonomous Devices (PowerMEMS+ 2024), celebrated from the 18th to the 21st of November 2024 in the Norwegian city of Tønsberg.
His presentation was based on the paper “On the Optimal Choice of Electrical Conditioning Circuits for Triboelectric Nanogenerators”, of which he is the first author. Hachem presented for the first time a GRAPHERGIA scientific paper, but we have also issued three more publications:
- “X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Analysis of Electrospun Polyacrylonitrile Fibers”, published in Surface Science Spectra Journal, Special Collection: Materials for Energy and the Environment (Volume 31, Issue 2 December 2024), and led by our coordinator Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH).
- “Dry Laser-Assisted Fabrication of F-doped Graphene Electrodes: Boosting the Performance of Zn-ion Hybrid Capacitors”, published in Chemical Engineering Journal (Volume 507, 1 March 2025, 160505), and also led Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH).
- “Power Management Technologies for Triboelectric Nanogenerators”, published in MRS BULLETIN | VOLUME 50 • MARCH 2025, managed by our partner ESYCOM, a laboratory attached to the Université Gustave Eiffel, participating as a contributor.
Our results have been presented beyond papers. From the 25th to the 27th of February 2025, GRAPHERGIA‘s business partner Born – Knitting Engineers, specialized in manufacturing different types of textiles, participated in the Large-area, Organic & Printed Electronics Convention (LOPEC) 2025 in Munich, Germany. Michael Schneider, its CEO, had the opportunity to showcase GRAPHERGIA’s research on graphene-empowered energy harvesting and storage on smart textiles and Li-ion batteries to key industry players.
“LOPEC is all about printed electronics, which is one the most important industries that increase user experience and acceptance of textile-based wearables, because it allows electronics to approximate the properties of textiles, and thus, be combined seamlessly.” – Michael Schneider, CEO of Born – Knitting Engineers.
Spreading the Word about GRAPHERGIA’s Research: Our Spring & Summer 2025 Upcoming Events
Before the Graphene Week 2025 in September, we hope to meet you in the following Spring and Summer events, where our partners will be spreading the word about GRAPHERGIA’s research and innovation activities:
- ISG2D2025: 3rd International Summit on Graphene and 2D Materials – 5-7 May, Amsterdam (Netherlands).
- 247th ECS Meeting: The Electrochemical Society – 18-22 May, Montréal (Canada).
- e-MRS 2025 Spring Meeting: European Materials Research Society – 26-30 May, Strasbourg (France).
- JNRSE 2025: 13th National Days on Energy Harvesting and Storage – 10-11 June, Annecy (France).
- CFF2025: Chemistry for the Future – 7-8 July, Pisa (Italy).
Stay tuned to our activities to follow us on our journey that will change our energy landscape with smart self-charging textiles and next-generation Li-ion batteries for a climate-neutral future!
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