Project description
Advancing magnesium-ion batteries for sustainable energy
Magnesium-ion batteries (MIBs) are a greener, safer alternative to lithium-ion batteries, but they face significant hurdles. The cathode materials struggle with low capacity and poor stability due to slow magnesium-ion movement. At the same time, the magnesium anode suffers from issues like uneven plating, which reduces efficiency and lifespan, especially with non-corrosive electrolytes. These challenges must be overcome to make MIBs a viable energy storage solution. With this in mind, the EU-funded BiM-ION project will develop advanced materials for enhanced MIBs. Using innovative 2D bimetallic chalcogenides and graphene hybrids, the project aims to improve ion movement, charge stability and long-term performance. BiM-ION seeks to make MIBs reliable and sustainable, accelerating the shift to eco-friendly energy technologies.
Objective
Magnesium-ion batteries (MIBs) present compelling performance and sustainability attributes, while sharing common manufacturing techniques with lithium-ion batteries, thus enabling rapid commercialization. However, challenges remain to be addressed, such as low capacity and poor cycling stability of the cathode materials stemming from sluggish Mg2+ diffusion kinetics, dendrite growth and irreversible Mg plating/stripping of the Mg metal anode, especially when operating in non-corrosive electrolytes. In response to these challenges, BiM-ION project leverages the expanding toolbox of 2D non-van der Waals (nvdW) bimetallic transition metal chalcogenides (BTMCs) and hybrids thereof with functionalized conductive graphene derivatives as potential cathode materials for MIBs. The 2D engineered nvdW BTMCs will be utilized to boost the Mg-ion diffusion and by leveraging metal-metal cooperativity in these structures BiM-ION aims to ascribe stable redox cycles and boost the stored energy. Importantly, tailored graphene derivatives with dense out-of-plane functionalities can facilitate the formation of covalent hybrids with 2D nvdW BTMCs, ascribing improved charge transport and stability of the resulting heterostructured electrodes, ultimately enabling long-term cyclability of MIBs. The Mg metal anode will be engineered by applying heteroatom doped graphene structures adorned with single metal atoms at the surface to improve the Mg-nucleation, and magnesiophilicity, to impede the irreversible Mg plating/stripping in non-corrosive electrolytes. The BiM-ION project aims to revolutionizing energy storage based on safer, abundant, environmentally friendly, and cost-effective solutions, thereby reducing our reliance on lithium-based technologies and accelerate the transition to sustainable energy sources.
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HORIZON.4.1 - Widening participation and spreading excellence
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-TALENTS-02
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771 47 Olomouc
Czechia
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