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Interoperability review highlights fragmented standards and the need for a connected future

A recent review that looks at interoperability within the materials and manufacturing sector has been published in The Journal of Industrial Information Integration. Although several reviews have been published on this topic, this review takes a broad look at the barriers to interoperability with regards to data from a European perspective. Vast swaths of data […]

EMMO: A universal materials science ontology

Now that the 18th European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes, FEMS EUROMAT 2025, has drawn to a close in Granada, Spain, we reflect on the second of Gerhard’s talks that he gave on Thursday as part of the “Digital materials: rapid materials, experiments, simulation workflows, ontologies and interoperability” session. The talk was […]

EMMO: enabling AI-based advanced materials development

The 18th European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes, FEMS EUROMAT 2025, is now underway in Granada, Spain. Gerhard spoke to a full conference room with his keynote talk entitled: EMMO Ontology: enabling AI-based innovative advanced materials development: the CoBRAIN Knowledge Base for Hardmetal Thermal Spraying Coatings. This keynote talk formed part of the […]

BatCAT consortium meeting in Newcastle

Last week, all partners from the BatCAT project met at The Catalyst in Newcastle, UK for a consortium meeting that marked the halfway stage of the project. Representatives from the partner organisations reviewed and discussed progress, exchanged ideas, and charted the course for the project’s next steps. This successful meeting was an opportunity to see […]

Announcing the BatCAT project

BatCAT is a new research and innovation project funded by the EU’s Horizon Europe programme that will run until June 2027. The project aims to create a digital twin for battery manufacturing by developing a cross-chemistry data space for two technologies: Li-ion and Li-S coin cells and redox flow batteries. Here at GCL, we are […]