High throughput manufacture of hierarchical Li-Ion battery materials

尽管在纳米材料合成和组装方面不断取得进展，但在工业相关技术方面存在差距，无法扩大先进纳米材料结构的制造。将纳米技术的进步与乳液模板和高通量微流体技术相结合，可以为复杂材料的自下而上的加工和结构化提供范式转变。ERC Consolidator Grant MIGHTY已经证明，微流体液滴发生器可以产生具有受控形态的纳米颗粒超结构，用于能量存储。更准确地说，这一工艺可以优化锂离子电池电极的成分、孔隙率和填充，从而提高锂离子电池的能量密度和倍率性能。在此次的研究资助（HURRICANE）中，我们寻求额外的支持，将颗粒制造工艺扩大到商业相关的规模，以便将所实现的性能优势转化为商业锂离子电池电极制造。这对于支持欧盟汽车行业向电动汽车过渡尤其及时。

Despite continuous progress in both nanomaterial synthesis and assembly, there is a gap in industrially relevant technologies to scale-up the manufacturing of advanced nanomaterial structures. Combining advances in nanotechnology with emulsion templating and high throughput microfluidic techniques can offer a paradigm shift in how complex materials are processed and structured from the bottom-up. The ERC Consolidator Grant MIGHTY has demonstrated that microfluidic droplet generators can produce nanoparticle super-structures with controlled morphologies for applications in energy storage. More precisely, this process allows optimisation of Li-Ion battery electrode composition, porosity, and packing, which improves energy density and rate performance of Li-Ion batteries.In this PoC Grant (HURRICANE) we seek additional support to scale up the particle manufacturing process to commercially relevant volumes, in order to translate the achieved performance benefits to commercial Li-ion battery electrode manufacture. This is particularly timely to support the EU's automotive industry as it transitions to electrical vehicles.