Description du projet
Un coup de pouce 3D pour le stockage de l’énergie
De plus en plus d’applications portables ont besoin d’électricité, des véhicules électriques aux systèmes robotiques, en passant par les appareils électroniques mobiles. Le stockage de l’énergie électrique reste néanmoins une tâche difficile. Les technologies de batteries lithium-ion rechargeables restent limitées en raison de leur conception plane bidimensionnelle, qui restreint leurs performances en termes de puissance de sortie et de vitesse de charge. Le projet NANO-3D-LION, financé par le CER, va introduire un changement de paradigme au niveau de la conception des batteries. Il développera et emploiera des techniques avancées d’impression 3D à l’échelle nanométrique pour fabriquer des matériaux de batterie actifs dotés de particularités structurelles ultra-minces. Au final, le projet devrait permettre d’établir une approche technique susceptible de révolutionner le paysage futur de la recherche et de l’industrie dans le domaine des appareils électroniques portables et des véhicules électriques.
Objectif
One of the greatest technological challenges of today is efficient storage of electrical energy for portable applications, including electric vehicles, mobile electronic devices, and robotic systems. Further progress in these areas, however, is often hindered by the limitations of current rechargeable lithium ion battery technologies, which are among the most common power sources for these systems. Despite tremendous progress in electrode materials, the intrinsic drawbacks of current batteries are related to their planar two-dimensional design, which restrains the performance in terms of output power and charging speed. NANO-3D-LION is aimed to make a breakthrough in these major battery characteristics by a paradigm shift in battery engineering: the goal is to develop and employ advanced nanoscale 3D printing techniques to fabricate active battery materials with ultrasmall structural features, which will provide almost a thousand-fold increase in the surface area of the battery enabled by nanoscale spacing between its electrodes without compromising the battery capacity. To reach this, high-aspect ratio metal features will be fabricated and further converted into the active material of the cathode and the anode. This will enable unprecedented level of control of the battery architecture, allowing groundbreaking improvement of the key battery performance characteristics, including higher output power and charging times of only several seconds. NANO-3D-LION will establish a unique engineering approach with a potential to completely change the future landscape in research and industry related to portable electronic devices and electric vehicles and will also benefit many technologies beyond battery research, where nanoscale 3D printing opens new unparalleled capacity, therefore ensuring its broad scientific, economical and societal impact.
Champ scientifique
- natural scienceschemical scienceselectrochemistryelectric batteries
- social sciencessocial geographytransportelectric vehicles
- natural scienceschemical sciencesinorganic chemistryalkali metals
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical transitionsrevolutions
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringadditive manufacturing
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitution d’accueil
26129 Oldenburg
Allemagne