Research areas
Research within RS2E revolves around two pillars: the main research areas and the interdisciplinary axes which bring together all the necessary expertise to carry out the projects initiated within the research themes.
RESEARCH AREAS
- Advanced M-ion: Dedicated to the Metal-ion (Li,K,Mg,Na) technologies, it will address the locks at the electrode materials, electrolytes and formulation in order to increase their performances, reliabilities and safeties.
- Eco-conception and recycling: It will be dealing with problems of recycling and lifecycle analysis of materials and storage systems. It will also favor new concepts of renewable electrodes and the development of innovative syntheses based on bio-inspired, biomimetic and/or bio-assisted approaches.
- All-solid-state:
- Sensing, self-healing and BMS: With battery cells becoming the heart of future society, there is a crucial need to increase their quality, reliability and life time by non-invasive operando performance monitoring and the possibility to repair defective components.
- Power Materials and Systems: This theme focuses on the development of new materials and devices capable of storing and releasing energy extremely rapidly. It encompasses the synthesis of novel materials, the original design of electrodes, and the development of innovative electrolytes. The scope covers both fundamental mechanisms and the engineering of devices, ranging from µW to kW power levels.
- Processes:
- Aqueous batteries:
INTERDISCIPLINARY AXES
- Theory: in interaction with the experimentalists, the «Theory» group develops methods and strategies in order to guide the search for new materials, simulate the experiment and predict the electrochemical and chemical stability of the electrodes and electrolytes.
- Advanced characterizations:
- Pre-transfet units:
- Safety: its activities are mainly focused on the implementation of advanced electrochemical tests/protocols and post-mortem studies of batteries and supercapacitors to determine the causes of their malfunction and provide optimized solutions.
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