INFUSE: Interface with the Future - Underpinning Science to Support the Energy transition

气候变化是当代人和子孙后代面临的最大威胁：要实现英国政府制定的、符合《巴黎气候协定》的雄心勃勃的净零二氧化碳目标，需要以前所未有的规模进行技术动员，并采取行动迅速开发和部署新方法。英国的研究和开发能力需要进行范式转变，以缩短能源生产和消费的新颖和可持续解决方案的上市时间。成功的快速翻译需要学术界和工业界之间的伙伴关系，共同的愿景和承诺。（你不生产它）或燃烧后缓解（你捕捉和使用它）-在效率、稳定性或寿命方面有限制，这些限制与系统中材料界面的行为有关，以及这些接口在操作环境中如何随时间变化。这种动态系统的例子包括地质碳捕获和储存，新电动汽车的接口，用于催化剂或能量收集的纳米级材料。如果我们能够理解和控制这些接口，它将为我们创造，优化和部署激进的技术解决方案的能力提供转变，以应对气候变化并创建清洁能源系统。在壳牌、伦敦和英国国家同步加速器设施-钻石光源-之间的这个联合项目中，我们旨在开发全新的能力，以研究复杂真实的世界条件下的界面行为-例如高温、流动、应力、电场等，并且能够在时间上和长度上关联测量，这样我们就可以建立一个完整的界面特性以及它们如何变化的图像。我们将联合收割机这些实验与国家的最先进的计算技术，提供新的见解界面行为。这种机械平台代表了新材料和工艺的合理设计的基础，这些材料和工艺具有更低的能源需求，更长的寿命或更坚固的完整性。

Climate Change is the single biggest threat to present and future generations: to meet the ambitious targets for net zero CO2 set out by the UK government and in line with Paris Climate Agreement requires technological mobilization on an unprecedented scale - with action required in rapid development and deployment of new approaches. A paradigm shift in the UK's research and development capabilities is needed to reduce time to market for novel and sustainable solutions for energy production and consumption. Successful rapid translation requires partnership between academia and industry, with a shared vision and commitment.Proposed technological strategies for CO2 reduction - either at source (you don't produce it) or post combustion mitigation (you capture and use it) - have limitations in efficiency, stability or lifetime associated with the behaviour of material interfaces in the systems, and how these interfaces change with time in the operating environments. Examples of such dynamic systems range from geological carbon capture and storage, to interfaces in new electric vehicles, to nanoscale materials for catalysts or energy harvesting. If we were able to understand and control such interfaces it would provide a transformation in our ability to create, optimize and deploy radical technological solutions to both combat climate change and create clean energy systems. In this joint programme between Shell, Imperial College London and the UK National Synchrotron Facility - Diamond Light Source - we aim to develop entirely new capabilities to study the behaviour of interfaces under complex real world conditions - such as high temperature, flow, stress, electric fields etc. and to be able to correlate the measurements in time and across length-scales so that we build up a complete picture of interface properties and how they change. We will combine these experiments with state-of-the-art computational techniques to provide new insights into interfacial behaviour. This mechanistic platform represents the foundation that will underpin the rational design of new materials and processes with reduced energy demand, better lifetime or more robust integrity.