ISCF Wave 1:Designing Electrodes for Na Ion Batteries via Structure Electrochemical Performance Correlations

与产业战略挑战基金保持一致这项建议旨在促进开发低成本钠离子电池阳极的基础知识，以加快钠离子电池在英国的商业化进程。我们建议的研究显然与工业战略挑战基金的目标和目标一致，具体如下：ELECTRONIB将与英国主要的工业电池开发商(强生、马泰和Faradion)密切合作。让他们密切参与我们的研究，将使我们能够在未来进一步联合申请各种产业基金(例如，通过Innovate UK或未来的Faraday Institute)，以促进与英国其他主要的工业和学术电池开发商的合作。这将反过来增加英国企业在研发方面的投资，提高研发能力和能力。ELECTRONIBS是一项高度跨学科的研究，涉及材料合成、电化学、高级表征和建模以及具有互补专业知识的学者。我们将与许多欧盟和来自德国、中国、瑞典和日本的国际专家密切合作，我们将涉及英国和国际行业。因此，我们很可能不仅在国家层面，而且在国际上产生重要的学术和工业影响，导致围绕低成本能源存储这一极具挑战性的领域进行更多的多学科和跨学科研究。几家在具有挑战性的电池和能源存储领域工作的英国和国际公司直接参与我们的提案，可能会导致更多的商业和学术参与到钠离子电池领域的创新活动中。主要成果将直接与业界讨论，以期申请创新英国基金，在共享专业知识的基础上开发产品-我们对材料以及如何合成/处理它们的知识和理解；行业对产品开发的知识，从最初的原型到市场就绪的设备，以及他们敏锐的商业敏锐性和成功将产品推向市场所需的市场知识。ELECTRONIBS的合作伙伴既有像JM这样的老牌公司，也有像Faradion这样在能源储存领域工作的中小企业，也有像AVA CO2这样生产低成本碳材料的公司。我们与丰田中央研发实验室有合作关系，丰田中央研发实验室是具有真正国际影响力的先驱混合动力汽车公司。我们也有中国科学院通过物理研究所参与进来，他们现在已经剥离出来生产钠离子电池。这可能会导致英国和国际价值链上更年轻、更小的公司与更大、更成熟的公司之间加强合作。我们的国际合作可能会增加英国在研发方面的海外投资。由于其出色的能量和功率密度，锂离子电池(LIB)已成为当今电能存储的首选技术。然而，锂离子电池由于成本高，对锂资源的压力越来越大，不适合用于固定的能量存储。因此，出于能源安全的考虑，迫切需要增加储能解决方案的多样性。钠离子电池作为低成本、经济实惠的锂离子电池替代品开始受到越来越多的关注。这笔赠款将基于可用的前体探索新的成本损失的阳极，目的是提高SIB的性能并促进其商品化。我们将通过使用复杂的表征技术和电池运行过程中的分子模拟，深入了解我们设计的电极中钠离子的存储、扩散和嵌入机制。

Alignment with the Industrial Strategy Challenge FundsThis proposal aims to advance fundamental knowledge within the development low cost anodes for Na-ion batteries in order to accelerate the commercialisation of Na-ion batteries in the UK. Our proposed research clearly aligns with the Industrial Strategy Challenge Funds objectives and aims as following:ELECTRONIBs will closely collaborate with major industrial battery developers in the UK (Johnson Matthey and Faradion). Having them closely involved within our research will enable us to further apply jointly for various industrial funds in the future (for example via Innovate UK or the future Faraday Institute) to facilitate collaborations with other major industrial and academic battery developers in the UK. This will in turn increase the UK businesses' investment in R&D and improved R&D capability and capacity. ELECTRONIBS is a highly interdisciplinary research involving materials synthesis, electrochemistry, advanced characterisation and modelling and academics with complementary expertise. We will work closely with many EU and international experts from Germany, China, Sweden and Japan and we will involve UK and International industries. Therefore, we are likely to have an important academic and industrial impact not only at national level but also internationally leading to an increased multi- and interdisciplinary research around the very challenging area of low cost energy storage.Having directly involved in our proposal several UK and international companies working in the challenging are of batteries and energy storage will likely lead to an increased business-academic engagement on innovation activities in the field of Na-ion batteries. Key results will be discussed directly with industry, with a view to applying for Innovate UK funding to develop products based on shared expertise - our knowledge and understanding of the materials and how to synthesize/process them; industry's knowledge of product development, from initial prototype to market-ready devices, as well as their keen business acumen and market knowledge needed to successfully take a product to market. ELECTRONIBS has partners ranging from well established companies like JM to smaller SMES working in the field of Energy Storage like Faradion as well as companies producing low cost carbon materials such as AVA CO2. We have collaborative links with Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, the pioneering hybrid motor vehicle company that has a truly international influence. We also have Chinese Academy of Science via the Institute of Physics involved which have now their own spin off in producing Na-ion batteries. This will likely lead to increased collaboration between younger, smaller companies and larger, more established companies up the value chain in the UK and internationally. Our international collaborations will likely increase overseas investment in R&D in the UK.Due to their outstanding energy and power density, lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have become the technology of choice for today's electrical energy storage. However, LIBs are not suitable for stationary energy storage because of their high costs and increasingly higher strain on lithium resources. Therefore there is a strong need to increase the diversity of energy storage solutions for energy security considerations.Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) started to receive significantly more attention as low cost and affordable alternative to LIBs. This grant will explore new lost cost anodes based on available precursors with the aim to increase the SIB performance and facilitate their comercialisation. We will develop fundamental insights into the mechanisms of sodium ion storage, diffusion and intercalation in our designed electrodes by employing complex characterisation techniques and molecular simulations during battery operation.