Centre for Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES)

集成能源系统高级材料中心(CAM-IES)是剑桥大学、纽卡斯尔大学、玛丽女王大学和伦敦大学学院四所英国大学之间的合作伙伴关系，专注于开发基于固态、高压和液流电池、固体氧化物燃料电池(SOFC)、二氧化碳气体分离膜、混合薄膜光伏(PV)和用于未来可再生能源和清洁能源系统的大面积热电材料的先进材料，用于能量转换和能量存储。CAM-IES的首要目标是帮助在英国范围内建立一个专注于能源应用的跨学科材料研究人员社区。我们的目标是离网/并网应用、大规模/电网集中能源生产和存储以及移动互联网通信技术的能源解决方案。CAM-IES将为更广泛的英国能源材料社区提供一个科学合作和交流的论坛，以及访问最先进的表征和增长设备，特别是目前安装在剑桥的亨利·罗伊斯爵士研究所的独特设施。我们利用这些不同能源领域之间目前尚未探索的协同效应，将旨在取得重大科学突破的基础能源材料研究结合起来，包括发现新材料、理解和控制接口、新颖的集成设备概念、实现增强的设备性能，所有这些都与强大的行业参与度相结合。后者将包括与工业伙伴共同举办早期成型讲习班，以确定具体应用中对材料的要求，并建立有效的方法来评估新材料的发现，以便扩大工业规模。研究方案集中在六个工作包(WPS)上，旨在解决每个设备面临的关键科学挑战，例如固态电池和SOFC膜中的离子传输、提高PV的效率以及在热电中自组装的方法。WP6直接攻击了与将新材料集成到工作设备中并优化其性能相关的挑战。一个重要的主题是开创新的计量学方法来表征在手术条件下的界面，包括核磁共振、磁共振成像和透射电子显微镜以及脉冲同位素交换方法。通过开发定制工具来实现不同设备的集成，使各种低温电池、SOFC、太阳能电池和热电材料能够在常见的惰性加工环境中受控沉积和集成。我们将通过三次灵活的资金募集扩大工作范围和学术界/产业界的参与，主题包括新兴的新研究领域、行业驱动/合作伙伴和材料集成研究。我们将为英国学术界和企业提供一个知识交流和合作的论坛，并获得世界级设施，以加速将新概念转化为商业现实。在各个EPSRC能源生产和传输先进材料中心与我们的大学合作伙伴、行业和利益攸关方团体之间发展强大的协作工作和网络模式是一个重要目标。有所有利益攸关方参加的一系列高知名度研讨会和讲习班，以确定EPSRC先进材料中心与主要行业挑战之间的协同作用，向社区传播研究成果，并就CAM-IES设施对用户进行培训，是确定和吸引用户并传播成果的关键战略。我们将为来自4所原合作大学以外的学生和PDRA提供支持，让他们参加这些活动并使用CAM-IES设备。向中心提供的战略建议将由一个来自工业界和学术界的广泛和经验丰富的国际咨询委员会提供。

The Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) is a partnership between four UK universities, Cambridge, Newcastle, Queen Mary and University College London, focused on the development of advanced materials for energy conversion and energy storage based on solid-state, higher voltage, and flow batteries, solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), CO2 gas separation membranes, hybrid thin film photovoltaics (PVs) and large-area thermoelectrics for future renewable and clean energy systems. The overarching goal of CAM-IES it to help build a UK-wide community of cross-disciplinary materials researchers focused on energy applications. We target off-grid/grid-tied applications, large-/grid-scale centralised energy generation and storage and energy solutions for mobile internet communication technologies.CAM-IES will provide a forum for scientific collaboration and exchange as well as access to state-of-the art characterisation and growth equipment to the wider UK energy materials community, in particular the unique facilities of the Sir Henry Royce Institute currently being installed in Cambridge. We exploit currently unexplored synergies between these different energy fields, and combine fundamental energy materials research aimed at making significant scientific breakthroughs, including, discovery of new materials, understanding and controlling interfaces, novel integrated device concepts, achieving enhanced device performances, all with strong industry engagement. The latter will include early shaping workshops with industrial partners to identify requirements for materials in specific applications and the establishment of effective methods for evaluating new materials discoveries for industrial scale-up. The research programmes are focused around six work packages (WPs), aimed at addressing key scientific challenges for each of the devices, e.g., ionic transport across interfaces in solid state batteries and SOFCs membranes, increased efficiency in PVs, and methods for self-assembly in thermoelectrics. WP6 directly attacks the challenges associated with the integration of new materials into working devices and optimising their performance. An overarching theme is to pioneer new metrologies to characterise interfaces under operando conditions, including NMR, magnetic resonance imaging and transmission electron microscopy and pulsed isotope exchange methods. Integration of different devices is enabled by the development of a bespoke tool to enable the controlled deposition and integration of a wide range of low-temperature battery, SOFC, solar cell and thermoelectric materials in a common, inert processing environment. The scope of the work and academic/industrial participation with be expanded via three flexible funding calls, with topics including emerging new research areas, industry driven/partnered, and materials integration research.We will provide UK academia and businesses with a forum for knowledge exchange and collaboration, coupled with access to world-class facilities to accelerate new concepts to commercial reality. The development of strong modes of collaborative working and networking between individual EPSRC Centres for Advanced Materials for Energy Generation and Transmission, together with our University partners, industry and stakeholder groups, is an important goal. A series of high visibility symposia and workshops involving all the stakeholders, to identify synergies between the EPSRC Advanced Materials Centres and key industry challenges, to disseminate research findings to the community and to train users on CAM-IES facilities, is a key strategy to identify and engage users and disseminate results. We will provide support for students and PDRAs from outside the 4 original partner universities to attend these events and use CAM-IES equipment. Strategic advice to Centre will be provided by a broad and highly experienced, international advisory board from industry and academia.