Energy Storage Research: Key Areas

Higher TRL experience of energy storage devices

NDT testing for in line measurement on electrode manufacturing

• including: thickness, porosity, binder migration, acoustic emission, areal FTIR measurements

Scale-up of new materials into pouch cells for validation testing

• sustainable, scalable materials synthesis without heat and pressure
• pouch cell testing and validation

Designed for Dismantle Energy Storage

• Designing recyclable, easily disassembled battery packs
• Developing new electrode stacking configurations for disassembly while maintaining performance
• Mechanochemical separation techniques for recycling electrode manufacturing waste

Printing and large-scale manufacturing

• Sustainable, scalable processes for material integration and battery manufacture

Low TRL experience of energy storage devices

Electrochemistry

• Cyclic Voltammetry
• Galvanostatic Charge and Discharge
• Impedance Spectroscopy

Hydrodynamic measurement

• Rotating Disc Electrode
• Porous Rotating Disc Electrode
• Rotating Ring Disc Electrode

Microscopy

• Atomic Force Microscopy
• In-situ and Ex-situ AFM of battery materials in liquids
• Double layer refinement

Spectroscopy

In situ:

Surface enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS)
Shell Isolated Nanoparticles for Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SHINERS)
Optically transparent thin electrochemistry (Raman, UV/Vis, IR)
Small Angle X-Ray Scattering

Ex Situ:

NMR Spectroscopy

Mechanical testing

• Stress testing for materials
• Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA)
• Adhesion testing

Material formulation and rheology

• Formulation of dispersion
• Rheology for process optimisation

• Development of innovative technologies through fundamental research foe next generation Energy Storage Solutions
• Development of manufacturing solutions for scale-up and testing of product performance
• Advanced Methodologies and characterisation techniques for electrochemical energy storage research
• Compositional and structural characterisation of electrodes in-operandi and ex-situ
• Coupling of different techniques to gain fundamental and drive optimisation
• In-house production of various tools and cells to allow analysis of highly reactive metal surfaces
• Expertise in a wide variety of techniques including at large scale facilities (Synchroton X-ray and neutrons)
• Experience in the preparation and characterisation of polymeric films for electrode protection
• Proven track record in surface modification (MVD) and printing technologies