ISCF Wave 1:Designing Electrodes for Na Ion Batteries via Structure Electrochemical Performance Correlations

与工业战略挑战基金保持一致本提案旨在推进钠离子电池低成本阳极开发的基础知识，以加速英国钠离子电池的商业化。我们提议的研究与工业战略挑战基金的目标和目的明确一致，如下：ELECTRONIBs将与英国的主要工业电池开发商（庄信万丰和法拉第）密切合作。让他们密切参与我们的研究将使我们能够在未来进一步联合申请各种工业基金（例如通过Innovate UK或未来的法拉第研究所），以促进与英国其他主要工业和学术电池开发商的合作。这将增加英国企业在研发方面的投资，提高研发能力和能力。ELECTRONIBS是一项高度跨学科的研究，涉及材料合成，电化学，先进的表征和建模以及具有互补专业知识的学者。我们将与来自德国、中国、瑞典和日本的许多欧盟和国际专家密切合作，我们将涉及英国和国际行业。因此，我们很可能不仅在国家层面，而且在国际层面上产生重要的学术和工业影响，从而导致围绕低成本储能这一极具挑战性的领域的多学科和跨学科研究的增加。直接参与我们的提案的几家英国和国际公司在电池和能源存储领域具有挑战性，这可能会导致在钠离子电池领域的创新活动中增加商业-学术参与。关键成果将直接与工业界讨论，目的是申请英国创新基金，以开发基于共享专业知识的产品-我们对材料的知识和理解以及如何合成/加工它们；产品开发的行业知识，从最初的原型到市场就绪的设备，以及他们敏锐的商业头脑和成功将产品推向市场所需的市场知识。ELECTRONIBS的合作伙伴包括JM等知名公司，Faradion等在储能领域工作的中小型企业，以及生产低成本碳材料的公司，如AVA CO2。我们与丰田中央研究与发展实验室建立了合作关系，这是一家具有真正国际影响力的开创性混合动力汽车公司。我们也有中国科学院通过物理研究所参与其中，他们现在有自己的分支机构生产钠离子电池。这可能会导致英国和国际价值链上游的年轻、较小的公司和较大、更成熟的公司之间的合作增加。我们的国际合作可能会增加海外对英国研发的投资。由于其出色的能量和功率密度，锂离子电池（LIBs）已成为当今电能存储的首选技术。然而，由于锂离子电池成本高，对锂资源的压力越来越大，因此不适合用于固定储能。因此，出于能源安全考虑，迫切需要增加储能解决方案的多样性。钠离子电池（SIBs）作为锂离子电池的低成本和可负担的替代品开始受到越来越多的关注。这笔拨款将基于现有的前体探索新的损失成本阳极，旨在提高SIB的性能并促进其商业化。我们将通过在电池运行过程中采用复杂的表征技术和分子模拟，对钠离子在我们设计的电极中的储存、扩散和嵌入机制进行基本的了解。

Alignment with the Industrial Strategy Challenge FundsThis proposal aims to advance fundamental knowledge within the development low cost anodes for Na-ion batteries in order to accelerate the commercialisation of Na-ion batteries in the UK. Our proposed research clearly aligns with the Industrial Strategy Challenge Funds objectives and aims as following:ELECTRONIBs will closely collaborate with major industrial battery developers in the UK (Johnson Matthey and Faradion). Having them closely involved within our research will enable us to further apply jointly for various industrial funds in the future (for example via Innovate UK or the future Faraday Institute) to facilitate collaborations with other major industrial and academic battery developers in the UK. This will in turn increase the UK businesses' investment in R&D and improved R&D capability and capacity. ELECTRONIBS is a highly interdisciplinary research involving materials synthesis, electrochemistry, advanced characterisation and modelling and academics with complementary expertise. We will work closely with many EU and international experts from Germany, China, Sweden and Japan and we will involve UK and International industries. Therefore, we are likely to have an important academic and industrial impact not only at national level but also internationally leading to an increased multi- and interdisciplinary research around the very challenging area of low cost energy storage.Having directly involved in our proposal several UK and international companies working in the challenging are of batteries and energy storage will likely lead to an increased business-academic engagement on innovation activities in the field of Na-ion batteries. Key results will be discussed directly with industry, with a view to applying for Innovate UK funding to develop products based on shared expertise - our knowledge and understanding of the materials and how to synthesize/process them; industry's knowledge of product development, from initial prototype to market-ready devices, as well as their keen business acumen and market knowledge needed to successfully take a product to market. ELECTRONIBS has partners ranging from well established companies like JM to smaller SMES working in the field of Energy Storage like Faradion as well as companies producing low cost carbon materials such as AVA CO2. We have collaborative links with Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, the pioneering hybrid motor vehicle company that has a truly international influence. We also have Chinese Academy of Science via the Institute of Physics involved which have now their own spin off in producing Na-ion batteries. This will likely lead to increased collaboration between younger, smaller companies and larger, more established companies up the value chain in the UK and internationally. Our international collaborations will likely increase overseas investment in R&D in the UK.Due to their outstanding energy and power density, lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have become the technology of choice for today's electrical energy storage. However, LIBs are not suitable for stationary energy storage because of their high costs and increasingly higher strain on lithium resources. Therefore there is a strong need to increase the diversity of energy storage solutions for energy security considerations.Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) started to receive significantly more attention as low cost and affordable alternative to LIBs. This grant will explore new lost cost anodes based on available precursors with the aim to increase the SIB performance and facilitate their comercialisation. We will develop fundamental insights into the mechanisms of sodium ion storage, diffusion and intercalation in our designed electrodes by employing complex characterisation techniques and molecular simulations during battery operation.