ISCF Wave 1: (The JUICED Hub [Joint University Industry Consortium for Energy (Materials) and Devices Hub])

该提案将开发英国三个能源材料中心之一，该中心将与工业界密切合作，开展尖端研究，开发直到示范级(商业前)设备的材料。该中心还将在英国各集团和行业的能源材料和设备的网络、培训和教育方面发挥重要作用，并将连接和补充现有的能源相关网络和组织，使英国受益。“多汁”中心[大学-工业能源(材料)和设备联合联盟]将专注于纳米能源材料(陶瓷材料，规模为十亿分之一米宽)的研究。能源材料将被制造和开发应用，如汽车、电网或消费设备应用的高性能电池和类似的储能设备，用于电解槽的低成本材料(使用电能将水分解为氧气和氢燃料)，燃料电池[可将化学能转化为电能的设备]。其他感兴趣的能源材料是可以清除低品位热量或能量并将其转化为电能的材料，或者可以帮助存储、转移或调节热能的材料。该中心方法的新奇之处在于，它将能够极大地加速新的可持续材料的开发；(I)使用高通量合成(快速并行或串联制作大量样品)，在许多情况下，使用计算方法(使用计算机来模拟、理解和预测材料性能)和适当(快速)的材料性能筛选，这将识别每个应用领域中的主导材料(Ii)实验室规模的以上最高性能样品的合成和测试，以确定用于更大规模合成的材料(Iii)在商业化前的演示装置上对样品进行中试规模的合成和测试，(与工业或终端用户合作，重点是替换贵金属或不可持续的金属，例如铂、Ir、Ru、Pb，等等)。研究如何与工业战略挑战基金的目标保持一致；拟议的能源枢纽与工业战略挑战基金的目标很好地保持一致，如下所示；与该中心的工业财团的互动将与英国工业界合作，并加速发现新的先进功能材料，这将增加英国企业在研发方面的投资，并提高研发能力和能力。该中心的研究涵盖材料、测试和表征以及扩大规模等方面，将导致围绕“清洁和灵活能源”这一挑战领域的多学科和跨学科研究增加，特别是在设计、开发和制造用于汽车电气化的储能设备(电池或类似设备)方面，以支持低碳经济带来的商机和应对空气污染(例如，新的可持续放氧和还原催化剂，也可用于下一代电池)。该中心所涵盖的与工业战略挑战基金有关的其他领域包括“未来的制造和材料”(为先进制造业部门开发新的、负担得起的材料)。其中一些材料是设备的重要部件，这些设备也可应用于卫星和空间技术。该中心包括一些扩大规模和示范活动，因此，这将导致企业和学术界更多地参与与上述相同挑战领域有关的创新活动。这个果汁能源中心将包括一些大大小小的公司，它将通过其研讨会接触到英国更多潜在的公司(中小企业和较大的公司)，这些研讨会将宣传能力。

The proposal will develop one of the three UK energy materials hubs, which will carry out cutting edge research in close collaboration with industry in the development of materials up to demonstrator level (pre-commercial) devices. The hub will also have a major role in networking, training, educating in energy materials and devices across UK groups and industry, and will link-up and compliment existing energy related networks and groups to benefit the UK.The "JUICED" Hub [Joint University-Industry Consortium for Energy (Materials) and Devices Hub] will focus its research on nano-enabled energy materials (ceramic materials on a scale of a billionth of a meter wide). Energy materials will be made and developed in applications, such as high performance batteries and similar energy storage devices for automotive, grid or consumer device applications, low cost materials for electrolysers (which use electrical energy to split water into oxygen and hydrogen fuel), fuel cells [devices which take chemical energy and can (sometimes) reversibly convert it to electrical energy]. Other energy materials of interest are materials which can scavenge low grade heat or energy and convert it into electrical energy or materials which can help store, transfer or regulate thermal energy. The novelty in the hub's approach is that it will be able to considerably accelerate the development of new sustainable materials ; (i) Use high throughput synthesis (making a large number of samples quickly in parallel or in series) and in many cases, computational methods (use of computers to simulate and understand and predict materials properties) and appropriate (rapid) screening of materials properties, which will identify lead materials in each application area(ii) Laboratory-scale synthesis of the highest performing samples from above and testing to identify materials for larger scale syntheses(iii) pilot scale syntheses and tests on samples on pre-commercial demonstrator devices, (in collaboration with industry or end users with a strong emphasis on replacing precious or unsustainable metals such as Pt, Ir, Ru, Pb, etc.). How the research aligns with the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund objectives;The proposed energy hub aligns well to the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund objectives as follows; the interactions with the industrial consortium in the hub will work with UK industry and accelerate discoveries of new advanced functional materials which will increase UK businesses' investment in R&D and improved R&D capability and capacity. The research in the hub, which covers aspects of materials, testing and characterisation as well as scale-up will lead to an increase multi- and interdisciplinary research around the challenge area of "clean and flexible energy", particularly in the design, development and manufacture of energy storage devices (batteries or similar devices) for the electrification of vehicles to support the business opportunities presented by the low carbon economy and tackle air pollution (e.g. new sustainable catalysts for oxygen evolution and reduction which can also be used in next generation batteries). Other areas that the hub covers that are which are linked to the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund include "Manufacturing and Materials of the Future" (develop new, affordable, materials for advanced manufacturing sectors). Some of these materials are important components in devices which have applications also in Satellites and space technologies. The JUICED hub includes a number of scale-up and demonstrator activities and therefore this will lead to increased business-academic engagement on innovation activities relating to the same aforementioned challenge areas. The JUICED energy hub will include a number of larger and smaller companies and it will reach out to even more potential companies in the UK (SMEs and larger companies) with its workshops which will publicise capabilities.