Project description
Improving battery performance with advanced thermal management
Batteries power much of today’s electrified world, but managing their temperature is a big challenge. Without proper thermal management, batteries can overheat or fail, reducing their performance and lifespan. Current solutions are bulky and mostly focused on cooling, often neglecting the need to retain heat in cold environments. This imbalance limits batteries’ ability to work efficiently in all conditions. In this context, the ERC-funded THERMO2DEAL project aims to solve this by developing a new thermal modulator. Using advanced materials called MXenes, the system will dynamically manage heat, keeping batteries at a stable temperature. This will improve battery performance and lifespan, making them more reliable in a wide range of applications.
Objective
Batteries represent the present and future of our electrified society. One of the challenges within this field is ineffective battery thermal management (BTM), leading to device failure, limited performance, and lifetime reduction. BTM require a) effective dissipation of heat in warm environments to avoid thermal runaways, while b) the retention of heat in cold environments to avoid energy drops. This relates to the inevitable compromise of cooling (dissipate heat) and insulating (retain internal heat) in batteries depending on the needs. Current BTM are too bulky and provide mostly cooling capabilities, hampering batteries to perform optimally. Solid-state thermal modulators represent the ultimate solution for regulating batteries’ temperature. However, their performances and sizes are far from sufficient to deploy them for BTM.
THERMO2DEAL aims to develop a novel interfacial thermal modulator that enables dynamic heat management in batteries to achieve nearly isothermal performance. We will develop specific types of large area 2D transitional metal carbides materials, i.e. MXenes, that will be tuned electrochemically to modulate their thermal properties. These MXenes will be the essence of a new thermal modulator design for facile integration in batteries. The scalability, its quickly and repeatedly toggle on and off, and its large hot to cold switching contrast makes it pioneer in the field. I will address scientific challenges in the synthesis of scalable and unique MXenes, demonstration of thermal tuning on them and their integration in pouch cells,e.g. basic battery stack units in cars or house appliances,for temperature modulation. Experiments and theory using a nano- to macro-scale approach will be used to overcome these challenges.
This proposal will be a key stepping stone in developing advanced BTM for improved battery performance and lifetime. In the long term, this project will be at the frontier of new thermal technology for energy recovery or storage
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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28006 MADRID
Spain
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