Advanced sensing, monitoring and self-HEALING mechanisms to self-repair BATteries (HEALING BAT)

欧洲必须通过加快基础关键技术的发展，并允许欧洲电池制造业的发展，重新成为电池技术的全球领导者。根据欧盟绿色协议的要求，具有高往返效率的可充电电池是一项关键技术，可以为许多应用提供能量存储。锂离子化学目前主导着充电电池市场。然而，这些都接近其改进极限的尽头。在这方面，锂-S电池的高能量密度优势对于新的应用尤其重要，例如在重量是关键参数的情况下。该项目旨在开发和应用自愈合概念和材料在传统锂-S电池的关键电池部件中，并通过单元和部件层面的研究，推断出基于锂-S的新型自愈合结构电池的开发思路。它将建立一个自修复材料、传感器和定制的电池管理系统工具箱，以最大限度地提高生产的锂-S电池在质量、可靠性和寿命方面的性能，并避免或修复发生的损坏；BMS的目标是控制进出电池系统的能量流动，使用计算方法监控传感器数据，以识别指示退化的事件，以及启动自我修复行动。由此产生的解决方案将改造欧洲充电电池部门，按照欧盟绿色协议的规定，为多种应用提供高往返效率的能量存储，从而促进开发未来可持续电池所需的创新想法，这些电池需要更少的资源，并为欧盟的竞争力奠定基础。该项目将与Battery2030+的大规模倡议保持一致，该倡议将在其“智能功能集成”主题中进行，该主题支持传感和自我修复。

Europe must re-emerge as a global leader in battery technology by accelerating the development of underlying essential technologies and allowing a European battery cell manufacturing industry. As required in the EU Green Deal, rechargeable batteries with high round trip efficiency are a vital technology that permits energy storage for numerous applications. The lithium-ion chemistries now dominate the market for rechargeable batteries. However, these are near the end of their improvement limits. In this direction, the advantage of the high energy density of Li-S batteries is especially significant for novel applications, e.g., where weight is a crucial parameter. The project aims to develop and implement self-healing concepts and materials in the critical battery components used in conventional Li-S batteries and extrapolate the ideas to develop a new class of self-healing structural batteries based on Li-S by investigating at the cell & component level. It will be built a toolbox of self-healing materials, sensors, and a customized Battery Management System to maximize the performance of the produced Li-S battery in terms of Quality, Reliability, and lifetime and to avoid or repair occurring damages; The BMS's goal is to govern the flow of energy to and from the battery system, monitoring sensor data with computational methods to identify events indicating degradation, as well as initiate self-healing actions. The resulting solution will revamp the European sector of rechargeable batteries with high round-trip efficiency energy storage for numerous applications, as specified in the EU Green Deal, consequently promoting innovative ideas needed to develop future sustainable batteries which demand fewer resources and create the groundwork for EU competitiveness. The project will be aligned with the Battery2030+ large-scale initiative within their "Integration of smart functionalities" theme, which supports sensing and self-healing.