CONstruction of Smart Three-dimensional ELectrode Lithium-ion bATteries via Industrial prOcesses and staNdards (CONSTELLATION)

英国的目标是到2030年禁止内燃机销售，到2050年实现碳中和，英国迫切需要高度创新的解决方案来实现这些目标。它还需要在全球电动汽车市场保持竞争力，预计2022年全球电动汽车市场规模将达到680亿美元。项目星座旨在提高电动汽车电池的性能，通过汇集具有战略重要性的英国合作伙伴(Addionics、James Durrans、工艺创新中心、华威制造集团)的专业知识来提高英国电池供应链的竞争力，并将已经开发到TRL7的技术全面商业化。该项目的主要目标包括通过改善针对汽车市场优化的电池的制造效率、性能和环境状况，开发新的垂直电池制造。这些将通过改进采用人工智能(AI)设计的新型电流收集器来实现，并使用可以自动化的涂层来制定锂离子电池的定制电极。新的垂直产品将有助于缩短电池生产规模所需的时间，从而降低制造成本和最终用户的拥有成本。该项目将利用Addionics开发的3D集电器制造技术，该技术已显示出电池性能的显著改善。它将在InnovateUK资助的项目Stella早期成功的基础上，现在将工作带到TRL7\。星座项目将展示对现有巨型工厂的最小破坏，因为它代表了一种“即插即用”的解决方案，即可以向各种设施提供负担得起的电极。该项目的成果将直接在英国和其他地方商业化。

With the UK's aim to ban combustion-engine sales by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, the UK urgently needs highly innovative solutions to meet these targets. It also needs to maintain competitiveness in a global EV market expected to reach $68bn in 2022\. Project CONSTELLATION is aimed at improving the performance of EV battery cells, by bringing together the expertise of strategically important UK partners (Addionics, James Durrans, Centre for Process Innovation, Warwick Manufacturing Group) to improve the competitiveness of the UK battery supply chain and take technology already developed to TRL7, ready towards full commercialisation. Key objectives for this project include developing new verticals in cell manufacture through improvements to the manufacturing efficiency, performance and environmental profile of cells optimised for the automotive market. These will be achieved through improvements in novel current collectors designed by the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the formulation of customised electrodes in lithium-ion batteries using coating that can be robotically automated. New verticals will help reduce the time for scaling cell production resulting in lower costs for manufacturing and cost of ownership for the end-user. The project will utilise technology developed by Addionics for 3D current collector fabrication that has shown significant battery performance improvements. It will build on the earlier success of InnovateUK-funded project STELLAR to now take the work to TRL7\. Project CONSTELLATION will demonstrate minimal disruption to existing Gigafactories as it represents a 'drop-in' solution whereby affordable electrodes can be supplied to a variety of facilities. The output of the project will be commercialised directly in the UK and beyond.