Centre for Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES)

集成能源系统先进材料中心（CAM-IES）是英国剑桥、纽卡斯尔、玛丽皇后和伦敦大学四所大学的合作伙伴，专注于开发基于固态、高压和液流电池、固体氧化物燃料电池（SOFC）、CO2气体分离膜、用于未来可再生和清洁能源系统的混合薄膜光电器件（PV）和大面积热电器件。CAM-IES的总体目标是帮助建立一个专注于能源应用的跨学科材料研究人员的英国社区。我们的目标是离网/并网应用，大型/电网规模的集中式能源发电和存储以及移动的互联网通信技术的能源解决方案。CAM-IES将为科学合作和交流提供一个论坛，并为更广泛的英国能源材料社区提供最先进的表征和生长设备，特别是目前正在剑桥安装的亨利罗伊斯爵士研究所的独特设施。我们利用这些不同能源领域之间目前尚未开发的协同效应，并结合联合收割机基础能源材料研究，旨在取得重大科学突破，包括发现新材料，理解和控制界面，新颖的集成器件概念，实现增强的器件性能，所有这些都具有强大的行业参与度。后者将包括与工业伙伴举办早期成形讲习班，以确定具体应用中对材料的要求，并建立有效的方法，评估新材料的发现，以促进工业规模的扩大。研究计划围绕六个工作包（WP），旨在解决每个设备的关键科学挑战，例如，在固态电池和SOFC膜中跨界面的离子传输、PV中提高的效率以及热电中自组装的方法。WP 6直接解决了将新材料集成到工作设备中并优化其性能的挑战。一个首要的主题是开创新的计量学，以在操作条件下，包括核磁共振，磁共振成像和透射电子显微镜和脉冲同位素交换方法。通过定制工具的开发实现了不同器件的集成，以在共同的惰性加工环境中实现各种低温电池、SOFC、太阳能电池和热电材料的受控沉积和集成。通过三个灵活的资金调用，工作范围和学术/工业参与将得到扩大，主题包括新兴的新研究领域，行业驱动/合作，材料集成研究。我们将为英国学术界和企业提供知识交流和合作的论坛，以及世界一流的设施，以加速新概念的商业现实。在各个EPSRC能源发电和传输先进材料中心与我们的大学合作伙伴，行业和利益相关者团体之间开发强大的协作工作和网络模式是一个重要目标。一系列高知名度的研讨会和讲习班，涉及所有利益相关者，以确定EPSRC先进材料中心和关键行业挑战之间的协同作用，向社区传播研究成果，并对CAM-IES设施的用户进行培训，是识别和吸引用户并传播结果的关键战略。我们将为来自4所原始合作大学之外的学生和PDRA提供支持，以参加这些活动并使用CAM-IES设备。一个来自工业界和学术界的广泛和经验丰富的国际咨询委员会将向中心提供战略咨询意见。

The Centre of Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (CAM-IES) is a partnership between four UK universities, Cambridge, Newcastle, Queen Mary and University College London, focused on the development of advanced materials for energy conversion and energy storage based on solid-state, higher voltage, and flow batteries, solid-oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), CO2 gas separation membranes, hybrid thin film photovoltaics (PVs) and large-area thermoelectrics for future renewable and clean energy systems. The overarching goal of CAM-IES it to help build a UK-wide community of cross-disciplinary materials researchers focused on energy applications. We target off-grid/grid-tied applications, large-/grid-scale centralised energy generation and storage and energy solutions for mobile internet communication technologies.CAM-IES will provide a forum for scientific collaboration and exchange as well as access to state-of-the art characterisation and growth equipment to the wider UK energy materials community, in particular the unique facilities of the Sir Henry Royce Institute currently being installed in Cambridge. We exploit currently unexplored synergies between these different energy fields, and combine fundamental energy materials research aimed at making significant scientific breakthroughs, including, discovery of new materials, understanding and controlling interfaces, novel integrated device concepts, achieving enhanced device performances, all with strong industry engagement. The latter will include early shaping workshops with industrial partners to identify requirements for materials in specific applications and the establishment of effective methods for evaluating new materials discoveries for industrial scale-up. The research programmes are focused around six work packages (WPs), aimed at addressing key scientific challenges for each of the devices, e.g., ionic transport across interfaces in solid state batteries and SOFCs membranes, increased efficiency in PVs, and methods for self-assembly in thermoelectrics. WP6 directly attacks the challenges associated with the integration of new materials into working devices and optimising their performance. An overarching theme is to pioneer new metrologies to characterise interfaces under operando conditions, including NMR, magnetic resonance imaging and transmission electron microscopy and pulsed isotope exchange methods. Integration of different devices is enabled by the development of a bespoke tool to enable the controlled deposition and integration of a wide range of low-temperature battery, SOFC, solar cell and thermoelectric materials in a common, inert processing environment. The scope of the work and academic/industrial participation with be expanded via three flexible funding calls, with topics including emerging new research areas, industry driven/partnered, and materials integration research.We will provide UK academia and businesses with a forum for knowledge exchange and collaboration, coupled with access to world-class facilities to accelerate new concepts to commercial reality. The development of strong modes of collaborative working and networking between individual EPSRC Centres for Advanced Materials for Energy Generation and Transmission, together with our University partners, industry and stakeholder groups, is an important goal. A series of high visibility symposia and workshops involving all the stakeholders, to identify synergies between the EPSRC Advanced Materials Centres and key industry challenges, to disseminate research findings to the community and to train users on CAM-IES facilities, is a key strategy to identify and engage users and disseminate results. We will provide support for students and PDRAs from outside the 4 original partner universities to attend these events and use CAM-IES equipment. Strategic advice to Centre will be provided by a broad and highly experienced, international advisory board from industry and academia.