Coordination Funds

优先方案“聚合物电池”（SPP 2248）专门用于聚合物电池，其中（有机）氧化还原活性聚合物用作各自阴极或阳极的活性材料。在全聚合物电池中，两个电极都基于聚合物材料。这些电池是有趣的系统，因为它们有前途的特性，包括快速充电，制造柔性电极的可能性，不含重金属以及材料合成和电池制造的低能量需求。第一个供资期的科学项目成功地涵盖了确定有前途的新材料的建模、对发生的（氧化还原）过程以及可能的副反应的理解、氧化还原活性聚合物的设计和合成、新型电解质的开发以及详细的表征（还利用了原位和操作中技术）。在此期间，该联盟制作了45份参考出版物;目前提交的数量更多（SPP 2248于2020年3月开始，正好在德国爆发CORONA大流行并首次封锁之时）。优先方案的中心活动-包括在本项目内-将继续促进所有项目和最高优先级方案参与者之间的科学交流，例如在优先方案的不同网络活动中。优先方案的一个重要目标是支持青年科学家，特别是女科学家。因此，博士生以及已经参与SPP项目的年轻PI将得到启动资金和指导计划的支持。该项目还将用于提高优先方案的（国际）知名度。此外，该中心项目将继续提供标准材料和电极，用于表征项目和基准系统。此外，还将实施战略，扩大第一供资阶段最有希望的材料的规模，并与工业伙伴一道采取知识转让办法。

The Priority Programme “Polymer-based batteries” (SPP 2248) is devoted to polymer-based batteries, in which (organic) redox-active polymers are used as active materials for either of the respective cathode or anode. In all-polymer batteries both electrodes are based on polymeric materials. These batteries are interesting systems due to their promising properties, which include fast charging, possibility to fabricate flexible electrodes, the absence of heavy metals as well as the low energy demand for material synthesis and battery fabrication. The scientific projects of the first funding periods successfully covered the modelling for the identification of promising new materials, the understanding of the occurring (redox) processes as well as possible side reactions, the design and synthesis of redox-active polymers, the development of novel electrolytes as well as the detailed characterisation (also utilizing in situ and in operando techniques). During this period, the consortium produced 45 refereed publications; a larger number is currently submitted (the SPP 2248 started in March 2020, exactly at the outbreak of the CORONA pandemic in Germany with the first lockdown). The central activities of the priority programme – covered within this project – will continue to promote the scientific exchange between all projects and participants of the SPP, for instance in different network events of the priority programme. One important aim of the priority programme is the support of young scientists, particularly of female scientists. Therefore, PhD students as well as the young PIs involved already in projects of the SPP will be supported by start-up funding and mentoring programmes. This project will also be utilized to promote the (international) visibility of the priority programme. Moreover, this central project will continue to provide standard materials and electrodes, which will be utilized by characterization projects as well as benchmark systems. In addition, strategies for the upscaling of the most promising materials of the first funding phase as well as approaches to knowledge transfer with industrial partners will be pursued.