ANR PRC HOMERE

Dates:
October 2022 – September 2026

Project coordinator:
MOLTECH-Anjou Angers

Partner laboratories :

• IMN
• Institute of Chemical Sciences (ISCR Rennes)
• Interuniversity Center for Materials Research and Engineering (CIRIMAT)

IMN staff involved:
Olivier CROSNIER, Thierry BROUSSE, Camille DOUARD

Engineering multifunctional hybrid organic materials for electrochemical energy storage

The HOMERE project aims to develop new polymer/carbon electroactive materials to enhance the performance of hybrid supercapacitors by combining the energy of molecules with the power of carbon. The project targets the preparation of innovative materials for clean, safe and competitive storage devices, at the frontier between capacitors and batteries, with improved stability and cycling speed. The project’s scientific and technical obstacles are the obstruction of a significant fraction of carbon microporosity by molecules, and the mediocre stability of these composite materials. To this end, the HOMERE project will combine two complementary strategies aimed at improving the integration of molecules into these devices by covalent grafting of a monolayer onto the carbon surface and the use of bio-inspired multifunctional copolymer binders with controlled architecture.