Project description
Next-generation batteries could harness materials from trees and crustaceans
Electrolytes are the materials through which ions flow between electrodes in battery storage systems. Polymer electrolytes have excellent electrochemical and physical properties as well as enhanced safety profiles and are promising alternatives for current liquid electrolytes. They could potentially replace the liquid electrolytes in single-ion batteries, including lithium-ion or sodium-ion batteries. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the BIOSIC project will develop single-ion conducting gel polymer electrolytes from abundant, bio-sourced, reliable and low-cost materials. Among the ones to be studied are cellulose and chitosan, the polymers in plants cell walls and the exoskeletons of insects and other organisms, respectively.
Objective
To properly ensure safe batteries, the development of safer and more environmentally-friendly ‘green’ electrolytes is urgently needed. The research aim of this project is to create performant single-ion conducting gel polymer electrolytes (SIC GPEs) from bio-sourced, abundant, reliable and low-cost materials such as cellulose, chitosan, agarose and alginate. This fellowship will address the electrolyte development from raw material to its application in a sodium-ion battery. The success of this proposal will be achieved by combining the knowledge and expertise of different laboratories. The synthesis and characterisation of the electrolyte will be realised at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPIKG), Germany, where the fellow will be hosted under the supervision of Prof. Markus Antonietti. The advanced electrochemistry analysis will be carried out during the fellow’s secondments at Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB), Spain, with Prof. Rosa Palacín and Dr. Alexandre Ponrouch. The implications of practical realisation will be evaluated by Volvo Cars Corporation, Sweden, under the mentoring of Dr. Hanna Bryngelsson. The fellow will ensure the connection between the different laboratories’ expertise and will so also extend each partner’s research focus. During the 2-year project, the fellow and mentors will disseminate their results to both industry, academia and the general public through patents as well as articles in newspapers and scientific journals.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- natural sciences chemical sciences electrochemistry electric batteries
- natural sciences chemical sciences electrochemistry bioelectrochemistry
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules
- natural sciences chemical sciences polymer sciences
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
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80539 MUNCHEN
Germany
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