ISCF Wave 1: (The JUICED Hub [Joint University Industry Consortium for Energy (Materials) and Devices Hub])

该提案将开发英国三个能源材料中心之一，该中心将与工业界密切合作，在材料开发方面进行尖端研究，直至演示级（预商业化）设备。该中心还将在英国集团和行业的能源材料和设备的网络，培训，教育方面发挥重要作用，并将连接和补充现有的能源相关网络和团体，使英国受益。（材料）和设备中心]将重点研究纳米能源材料（十亿分之一米宽的陶瓷材料）。能源材料将在应用中制造和开发，例如用于汽车，电网或消费设备应用的高性能电池和类似的能量存储设备，用于电解槽的低成本材料（使用电能将水分解为氧气和氢气燃料），燃料电池[获取化学能并（有时）可逆地将其转化为电能的设备]。其他感兴趣的能源材料是可以吸收低等级的热量或能量并将其转化为电能的材料，或者是可以帮助储存、传递或调节热能的材料。该中心方法的新奇在于，它将能够大大加快新的可持续材料的开发;（i）使用高通量合成（以并行或串行方式快速制作大量样本），在许多情况下，计算方法（使用计算机模拟、理解和预测材料特性）和适当（快速）筛选材料特性，其将确定每个应用领域中的主要材料（ii）上述最高性能样品的实验室规模合成和测试以确定用于更大规模合成的材料（iii）中试规模合成和在商业前演示装置上对样品的测试，（与工业界或最终用户合作，重点是替换贵金属或不可持续的金属，如Pt、Ir、Ru、Pb等）。 研究如何与工业战略挑战基金的目标相一致;拟议的能源中心与工业战略挑战基金的目标相一致，如下所示;与该中心的工业联盟的互动将与英国工业合作，加速发现新的先进功能材料，这将增加英国企业在研发方面的投资，提高研发能力和能力。该中心的研究涵盖了材料，测试和表征以及规模扩大等方面，将导致围绕“清洁和灵活能源”这一挑战领域的多学科和跨学科研究的增加，特别是在设计方面，能量存储装置的开发和制造（电池或类似装置），以支持低碳经济带来的商机，并解决空气污染问题（例如，用于析氧和还原的新型可持续催化剂，也可用于下一代电池）。该中心涵盖的与工业战略挑战基金有关的其他领域包括“未来的制造和材料”（为先进制造业开发新的、负担得起的材料）。其中一些材料是装置的重要组成部分，这些装置也可用于卫星和空间技术。JUICED中心包括一些规模扩大和示范活动，因此这将导致与上述相同挑战领域相关的创新活动的商业-学术参与增加。JUICED能源中心将包括许多大型和小型公司，并将通过其宣传能力的研讨会接触英国更多的潜在公司（中小企业和大型公司）。

The proposal will develop one of the three UK energy materials hubs, which will carry out cutting edge research in close collaboration with industry in the development of materials up to demonstrator level (pre-commercial) devices. The hub will also have a major role in networking, training, educating in energy materials and devices across UK groups and industry, and will link-up and compliment existing energy related networks and groups to benefit the UK.The "JUICED" Hub [Joint University-Industry Consortium for Energy (Materials) and Devices Hub] will focus its research on nano-enabled energy materials (ceramic materials on a scale of a billionth of a meter wide). Energy materials will be made and developed in applications, such as high performance batteries and similar energy storage devices for automotive, grid or consumer device applications, low cost materials for electrolysers (which use electrical energy to split water into oxygen and hydrogen fuel), fuel cells [devices which take chemical energy and can (sometimes) reversibly convert it to electrical energy]. Other energy materials of interest are materials which can scavenge low grade heat or energy and convert it into electrical energy or materials which can help store, transfer or regulate thermal energy. The novelty in the hub's approach is that it will be able to considerably accelerate the development of new sustainable materials ; (i) Use high throughput synthesis (making a large number of samples quickly in parallel or in series) and in many cases, computational methods (use of computers to simulate and understand and predict materials properties) and appropriate (rapid) screening of materials properties, which will identify lead materials in each application area(ii) Laboratory-scale synthesis of the highest performing samples from above and testing to identify materials for larger scale syntheses(iii) pilot scale syntheses and tests on samples on pre-commercial demonstrator devices, (in collaboration with industry or end users with a strong emphasis on replacing precious or unsustainable metals such as Pt, Ir, Ru, Pb, etc.). How the research aligns with the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund objectives;The proposed energy hub aligns well to the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund objectives as follows; the interactions with the industrial consortium in the hub will work with UK industry and accelerate discoveries of new advanced functional materials which will increase UK businesses' investment in R&D and improved R&D capability and capacity. The research in the hub, which covers aspects of materials, testing and characterisation as well as scale-up will lead to an increase multi- and interdisciplinary research around the challenge area of "clean and flexible energy", particularly in the design, development and manufacture of energy storage devices (batteries or similar devices) for the electrification of vehicles to support the business opportunities presented by the low carbon economy and tackle air pollution (e.g. new sustainable catalysts for oxygen evolution and reduction which can also be used in next generation batteries). Other areas that the hub covers that are which are linked to the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund include "Manufacturing and Materials of the Future" (develop new, affordable, materials for advanced manufacturing sectors). Some of these materials are important components in devices which have applications also in Satellites and space technologies. The JUICED hub includes a number of scale-up and demonstrator activities and therefore this will lead to increased business-academic engagement on innovation activities relating to the same aforementioned challenge areas. The JUICED energy hub will include a number of larger and smaller companies and it will reach out to even more potential companies in the UK (SMEs and larger companies) with its workshops which will publicise capabilities.