Doctoral network for high-throughput screening, synthesis and characterization of active materials for flow batteries
Doctoral network for high-throughput screening, synthesis and characterization of active materials for flow batteries
Germany
Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Straße 9
76327 Pfinztal, Germany
The Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT is one of approx. 75 Fraunhofer institutes in Germany. Its department for Applied Electrochemistry covers research on batteries, fuel cells, electrolyser, sensors and flow batteries.
Fraunhofer ICT is active in several projects in the area of new electrochemical technologies and systems for energy conversion and storage for mobile and stationary applications, but also on electrochemical sensors for the detection of different substances.
The Redox Flow Battery Group has been working for over 15 years in the fields of electrochemical characterization of materials such as electrodes, membranes and electrolytes, cell and stack development, system characterization and development, novel and optimized electrolytes, manufacturing methods and industrial scaling. The investigations and developments range in size from atoms to the MW range for application in the grid. The objective of all work is always to reduce costs and increase safety for an electrical energy grid based on renewable energy sources together with battery storage.
Fraunhofer ICT coordinates the PREDICTOR Doctoral Network and is active in the fields of high-throughput electrochemical analytics. The main goal is the development of an automated electrochemical analytical process for the characterisation and optimisation of new electrolytes for organic flow batteries based on different experimental techniques and computational methods like machine learning.
“PREDICTOR offers us the opportunity to develop advanced methods for faster research and development on electrolytes. We will apply this method to redox flow batteries as an example. This will lay the foundation for new environmentally friendly and widely available active materials, enabling new low-cost batteries for the storage of renewable energy sources.”
Funded by the European Union (Grant Agreement no. 101168943).
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