StoreAGE: Surface and Interface phenomena in sustainable energy storage systems

储能系统是使我们当前的经济体系转变为更可持续的经济体系的关键部分，以平衡风能和光伏发电产生的可再生电力的波动性质。有许多潜在的储能方法，但它们的储存容量和持续时间不同，如电池或氧化还原液流电池。在所有这些系统中，一个共同的因素是表面和界面上的过程对控制涉及的化学反应和物理过程的重要性。为了改进当前的储能系统并开发新的储能系统，需要对这些表面和界面过程有详细的了解和洞察。建议的博士网络将深入了解这些高度相关的表面和界面现象。先进的分析技术将被用来直接探测化学和物理过程，这些过程与各自的能量储存系统有关。建模和综合方法将补充对这些过程的理解，并允许开发用于储能系统的先进材料和部件。所获得的知识将直接应用于由有关行业合作伙伴提供的真实世界储能系统。由于这些方法是高度跨学科的，新一代研究人员必须经过培训，才能在如此复杂的研究和工业环境中脱颖而出。拟议的博士网络将使博士生能够将最先进的科学技术(关于分析、建模和综合)与现代工业在能源储存系统动态领域的要求结合起来。他们将发展对表面和界面过程的深刻科学理解，以及在广泛的工业环境中应用其技能的系统知识。

Energy storage systems are a crucial part to enable the transformation of our current economic system into a more sustainable one, to balance the fluctuating nature of renewable electricity production from wind and photovoltaics. There are many potential means of energy storage, that differ in their storage capacity and duration, such as batteries or redox-flow batteries.A common factor in all these systems is the importance of processes on surfaces and interfaces that control the involved chemical reactions and physical processes. To improve the current and develop novel energy storage systems, detailed understanding and insight about these surface and interface processes is required.The proposed Doctoral Network will gain insight into these highly relevant surface and interface phenomena. Advanced analytical techniques will be utilized to directly probe chemical and physical processes, relevant for the for the respective energy storage systems. Modelling and synthetic approaches will complement the understanding of these processes and allow the development of advanced materials and components for energy storage systems.The gained knowledge will be directly applied on real world energy storage systems, provided by the involved industrial partners. As these approaches are highly interdisciplinary, the new generation of researchers has to be trained to excel in such complex research and industrial environments. The proposed Doctoral Network will enable the PhD candidates to combine the most advanced scientific techniques (regarding analysis, modelling and synthesis) with the requirements of modern industry, in the dynamic field of energy storage systems. They will develop a deep scientific understanding of surface and interface processes and also the systemic knowledge to apply their skills in a broad range of industrial environments.