In a recent study conducted by the Ghent University, Echion Technologies anode material (XNO) was shown to be more environmentally friendly than Lithium Titanate (LTO) anode materials by a factor of 2.

Ghent University (UGent) and imec have announced the incorporation of Sentea, a spin-off from their world leading Photonics Research Group. An initial €1.6m in funding was raised from Fidimec, Finindus, PMV and QBIC II and the founders. Sentea will develop and market advanced silicon photonics based fibre optic sensing solutions. 

A team of researchers at Ghent University has overcome Jesus in the level of awesomeness by having designed and created a solar-powered device that is capable of separating out water and fertiliser from human urine, which will be used to grow crops used for making beer. Additionally, the team gathered urine from thousands of people attending a 10-day music festival (and drinking lots of beer). They have written a paper describing the technology b...