Towards innovative and affordable sodium- and zinc-based energy storage systems based on more sustainable and locally-sourced materials (eNargiZinc)

开发基于更可持续和本地采购的材料的创新且经济实惠的钠基和锌基储能系统 (eNargiZinc)

• 批准号: EP/Y03127X/1
• 负责人: Magdalena Titirici
• 金额: $ 66.43万
• 依托单位: Imperial College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY03127X%2F1
• 关键词: Towards; innovative; affordable; sodium; zinc

Electrochemical energy storage (EES) is crucial in the carbon-neutral future. Nevertheless, the current battery value chain has significant risks, especially concerning the supply of critical raw materials. eNargiZinc aims at developing new knowledge, technology and commercially exploitable products related to innovative and affordable next-generation EES devices, targeting long-term sustainability through the use of abundant and renewable materials and low environmental-impact production processes. A rigorous training-through-research programme for ten Doctoral Candidates (DCs) has been designed through an interdisciplinary and intersectoral approach, involving studies on all the essential parts needed to develop sodium-ion batteries, zinc-air batteries, and zinc-ion batteries/supercapacitors. The research within eNargiZinc will focus on developing sustainable electrode materials (biomassderived carbons and their composites, redox-active polymers, hybrid transition metal oxides, and interphases for anode-less concepts), electrolytes (solid-state and gel-polymer types), and, especially, on integrating all the developed components into full cells at an industrially-relevant scale. A Personalised Training Package for each DC will be tailored to allow them to acquire the required skills over the three years of employment within the network. To this aim, secondments to other partners (especially in the nonacademic sector), training in complementary skills, and network-wide training events will be implemented. The consortium, which is composed of nine beneficiaries and nine associated partners, is addressed to achieve the objectives of eNargiZinc and is based on excellence, synergy and complementarity. Industrial partners will play a key role in the network, by providing the DCs with exposure to the private sector and access to industrially-relevant facilities, which are essential to validate the findings obtained at lab-scale.

电化学能源存储（EES）在碳中性的未来至关重要。然而，当前的电池价值链具有很大的风险，尤其是关于关键原材料的供应。 Enargizinc旨在开发与创新且负担得起的下一代EES设备相关的新知识，技术和商业上可利用的产品，通过使用丰富的可再生材料以及低环境影响的生产过程来针对长期可持续性。一项针对十个博士候选人（DC）的严格培训研究计划是通过跨学科和层间方法设计的，其中涉及开发钠离子电池，锌空气电池以及锌离子电池和锌离子电池/超级电池所需的所有必需部分。膜中的研究将着重于开发可持续的电极材料（生物剂量的碳及其复合材料，氧化还原活性聚合物，混合过渡金属氧化物以及无阳极概念的相互作用），电解质（固态和凝胶 - 验证剂类型），尤其是在整合整体量表上，均一成整体的组合物。每个DC的个性化培训套餐将量身定制，以使他们能够在网络中的三年工作中获得所需的技能。为此，将实施向其他合作伙伴（尤其是在非学术领域），互补技能的培训和全网络培训活动的借口。该财团由九个受益人和九个相关伙伴组成，旨在实现Enargizinc的目标，并以卓越，协同作用和补充性为基础。工业合作伙伴将通过为DC提供接触私营部门并进入与工业相关的设施，这对于验证在实验室规模上获得的发现至关重要，将在网络中发挥关键作用。