STFC Global Challenge Network in Battery Science and Technology

电池技术已经成为我们日常生活的一部分，特别是通过它们在电子设备中的应用。事实上，锂基电池的发展是由消费电子工业推动的。然而，在未来，一系列电池技术（不限于锂离子）将在我们的生活中发挥越来越大的作用，其应用范围从汽车动力系统和电网存储到用于“微芯片”电源的微型电池，以及为起搏器供电的生物医学电池。为了在一系列环境中扩展和优化这些设备的应用，从根本上改进我们对电池中发生的基本过程的理解至关重要。大规模的设施研究是实现这一目标的关键，使用一系列中子、同步加速器和高性能计算设施的技术。单独利用一系列中子、x射线或HPC技术，为提高对电池的理解提供了机会——通过结合世界领先从业者在一系列互补技术和设施上的优势，我们将有一个独特的机会快速推进电池科学领域，并通过我们与行业的合作将这一领先研究转化为商业现实。

Battery technologies are already a part of our day-to-day lives, particularly through their application in electronic devices. Indeed, the development of Li- based batteries was driven by the consumer electronics industry. However, in the future a range of battery technologies (not limited to Li-ion) will play an increasing role in our lives with applications as diverse as automotive power trains and grid storage to micro-batteries for "on micro-chip" power and biomedical batteries to power pacemakers.In order to extend and optimise and the application of these devices in a range of environments, fundamental improvements to our understanding of the fundamental processes occurring in batteries are essential. Large-scale facilities research is essential to achieve this, using a range of techniques at neutron, synchrotron and high performance computing facilities.Utilising a range of neutron, x-ray or HPC techniques in isolation provides opportunities to improve understanding of batteries - by combining the strengths of world leading practitioners across a range of complementary techniques and facilities we will have a unique opportunity to rapidly advance the field of battery science, and thorough our partnerships with industry translate this leading research into commercial reality.