Operando metrology for energy storage materials (OpMetBat)

Basic data for this project

Type of project: Participation in other joint projects
Duration: 01/09/2022 - 31/08/2025

Description

The development of new battery materials is key to improving the performance, lifetime, safety and cost of energy storage technologies such as Li-ion batteries for electric vehicles. However, innovation is hampered by the inability of industry to reliably characterise their structure and chemistry in an operating environment. This project will build a metrological framework supporting traceable operando characterisation of state-of-the-art battery materials under dynamic charge / discharge conditions. This includes advancement and validation of ex situ methods, establishing new protocols, cells and a best practice guide for operando approaches and developing new instrumentation enabling hybrid, multiparameter measurement to inform new materials development.

Keywords: solid-state batteries