Project Europe
OPerando analyses and modelling of INterface dynamics and CHARGE transport in lithium-ion batteries
Dates:
June 2023 – May 2026
Project coordinator:
Santhana ESWARA MOORTHY (LIST laboratory, Luxembourg)
Partner laboratories:
IMN, CIC energiGUNE : Centro de Investigacion Cooperativa de Energias, Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft – und Raumfahrt EV, Deutsches Forschungszentrum fur Kunstliche INT, FEI Electron Optics BV, Fundacion Cidetec, Universitaet Paderborn, Pedal Consulting SRO, Paul Scherrer Institut
IMN staff involved:
Philippe MOREAU, Patricia ABELLAN, Ivan LUCAS, Rizki HANIFAH, Hannah NICKLES JAKEL, Eric GAUTRON
Battery innovation has played a major role in the development of new power generation and transportation technologies. A real catalyst for an economy based on clean, affordable and safe energy, innovation is currently hampered by a lack of understanding of the processes taking place at the atomic level in battery interfaces and interphases. The OPINCHARGE consortium aims to develop a set of efficient nanoanalytical techniques and methodologies in operando mode to understand interfacial processes in batteries. The challenge of the project is to achieve an unprecedented level of detail.
10 organizations from 7 different countries will be working together, combining their expertise and instrumentation, to find new ways of meeting this challenge. This collaboration will be supported by three main pillars of innovation: new chemical, isotopic and physical techniques. The main techniques to be used and developed will be as follows: X-ray scattering, amplified Raman, STEM-EELS & EDX, FIB-SIMS, neutron imaging, OEMS and NMR.
At the same time, the consortium will integrate AI/machine learning to improve data acquisition and analysis, making data analysis processes more efficient and relevant. To the same extent, data processing and sharing are cornerstones of the project. Open science practices and scientific collaboration with the community are recognized by the consortium as key aspects of the BIGMAP objectives of the Batteries2030+ program.
With a duration of 36 months, the project is divided into 7 work packages, distributed between the partners according to their expertise, with LIST as consortium leader. Dissemination, exploitation and communication activities will maximize the impact of the results. The scope of these activities actively promotes the dissemination of information derived from project activities.
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