High throughput manufacture of hierarchical Li-Ion battery materials

尽管纳米材料的合成和组装不断取得进展，但在工业相关技术方面仍存在差距，无法扩大先进纳米材料结构的制造规模。将纳米技术的进步与乳液模板和高通量微流体技术相结合，可以为复杂材料如何自下而上地加工和结构提供范式转变。ERC consolidated Grant MIGHTY已经证明，微流控液滴发生器可以产生具有控制形态的纳米粒子超结构，用于储能。更准确地说，这一过程可以优化锂离子电池的电极组成、孔隙度和填料，从而提高锂离子电池的能量密度和倍率性能。在这个PoC补助金（HURRICANE）中，我们寻求额外的支持，以扩大颗粒制造工艺的商业规模，以便将所取得的性能优势转化为商业锂离子电池电极制造。这对正在向电动汽车转型的欧盟汽车行业来说是一个特别及时的支持。

Despite continuous progress in both nanomaterial synthesis and assembly, there is a gap in industrially relevant technologies to scale-up the manufacturing of advanced nanomaterial structures. Combining advances in nanotechnology with emulsion templating and high throughput microfluidic techniques can offer a paradigm shift in how complex materials are processed and structured from the bottom-up. The ERC Consolidator Grant MIGHTY has demonstrated that microfluidic droplet generators can produce nanoparticle super-structures with controlled morphologies for applications in energy storage. More precisely, this process allows optimisation of Li-Ion battery electrode composition, porosity, and packing, which improves energy density and rate performance of Li-Ion batteries.In this PoC Grant (HURRICANE) we seek additional support to scale up the particle manufacturing process to commercially relevant volumes, in order to translate the achieved performance benefits to commercial Li-ion battery electrode manufacture. This is particularly timely to support the EU's automotive industry as it transitions to electrical vehicles.