Amplifying Ion Transport at the Interfaces of Solid-State Batteries

增强固态电池界面的离子传输

• 批准号: EP/Z000254/1
• 负责人: James Dawson
• 金额: $ 221.74万
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 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%2FZ000254%2F1
• 关键词: Amplifying; Ion; Transport; Interfaces; Solid

Building better batteries is one of the major scientific and societal challenges of the 21st century. However, incremental improvements to current batteries cannot meet the requirements necessary for Europe to reach its net-zero goals by 2050. Next-generation batteries are therefore essential for the transformational improvements in performance required for the electrification of transport and grid-scale storage of energy from renewable resources. Nevertheless, the full potential of such batteries is severely hindered by numerous underlying challenges, many of which centre on the ion transport and interfaces in their constituent materials.Building upon my expertise and proven track record in the atomistic simulation of materials and connecting such simulations to the macroscale, AMPed will revolutionise the understanding and design of the ion transport and interfaces within solid-state battery architectures. AMPed will utilise state-of-the-art classical, quantum mechanical, structure prediction and machine learning approaches to develop battery materials with improved performance, stability and sustainability by achieving the following four key objectives:(1) Establish a new time-domain paradigm for understanding ion transport in solid electrolytes (2) Explore nanostructured solid electrolytes for optimised performance(3) Mitigate resistance and instability at heterointerfaces in solid-state batteries(4) Drive transition to sustainable solid-state sodium batteriesThese novel and exploratory models will be experimentally validated in partnership with my close network of interdisciplinary experts in battery materials and devices. AMPed will provide transformative opportunities for the design of energy materials and push the boundaries of computational energy materials design, thereby advancing the excellence of energy research in Europe and further consolidating my research at the frontier of computational materials science.

制造更好的电池是 21 世纪主要的科学和社会挑战之一。然而，对现有电池的渐进式改进无法满足欧洲到 2050 年实现净零排放目标所需的要求。因此，下一代电池对于交通电气化和电网规模能源存储所需性能的变革性改进至关重要来自可再生资源。然而，此类电池的全部潜力受到许多潜在挑战的严重阻碍，其中许多挑战集中在其构成材料中的离子传输和界面。基于我在材料原子模拟方面的专业知识和良好的记录，并将此类模拟与从宏观角度来看，AMPed 将彻底改变固态电池架构中离子传输和界面的理解和设计。 AMPed将利用最先进的经典、量子力学、结构预测和机器学习方法来开发具有更高性能、稳定性和可持续性的电池材料，通过实现以下四个关键目标：（1）建立新的时域范式用于了解固体电解质中的离子传输 (2) 探索纳米结构固体电解质以优化性能(3) 减轻固态电池异质界面的电阻和不稳定性(4) 推动向可持续固态钠电池的过渡这些新颖的探索性模型将进行实验验证于与我在电池材料和设备方面的跨学科专家的密切网络合作。 AMPed 将为能源材料的设计提供变革性的机会，并突破计算能源材料设计的界限，从而推动欧洲能源研究的卓越发展，并进一步巩固我在计算材料科学前沿的研究。