On July 7-10, 2025, Dr. Guillermo Pozo from TECNALIA presented the poster “Metal recovery from waste streams using formic acid-based deep eutectic solvents (ADES)” at the 17th International Conference on Materials Chemistry (MC17), in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
TECNALIA is working on WP3 (Product Implementation and Value Chain Circularity) in the WaterProof project. TECNALIA’s task focuses on the use of formic acid products derived from recycled COâ‚‚, their circularity within the value chain, and their validation in the synthesis of acidic deep eutectic solvents (ADES) for metal recovery from waste streams.
The MC17 conference, organized by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2025, brought together leading materials researchers from around the world. Dr. Guillermo Pozo, from the WaterProof consortium, had the opportunity to network with representatives from both the academic and private sectors, helping to identify new stakeholders and enhancing the potential exploitation of TECNALIA’s WaterProof results in metal recovery from wastewater sludges and incineration ashes.