e-ChemIn · ElectroChemical Interfaces for energy conversion and storage: towards a carbon neutral society

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Project objective

The climate targets set by the EU with the goal of climate neutrality by 2050 require a transformation of all sectors of the economytowards the use of renewables-based electricity, calling for joined forces between EU countries in order to achieve a more resilientenergy system. To bring us closer to the realisation of these ambitious goals, 12 academic and 6 industrial partners from9 countries formed an international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral team — e-ChemIn. We are united by the idea of applying anew paradigm in designing energy devices, which shifts the current approach of creating individual materials towards engineeringelectrochemically ACTIVE MATERIALS INTERFACES. Working together will enable us to: 1) design multiple sets of electrochemicalinterfaces using renewable, abundant, and circular materials and optimise them for new generations of energy conversion andstorage devices. Our lab-scale prototypes will outperform characteristics of current benchmarks and will be ready for furtherdevelopments at high TRLs (5-9); 2) develop multimodal approaches for the characterisation of interfaces operando at thenanoscale, providing unprecedented insights into interfaces in action and making the characterisation of active interfaces accessible to the broader scientific community; 3) successfully establish processes for the recovery of critical raw materials from end-of-life devicesand apply them at the industrial scale; 4) to train 15 doctoral candidates in state-of-the-art electrochemical concepts and technologiesthrough the paradigm of interface-driven materials design, providing them with interdisciplinary research knowledge, professionalconnections, communication and leadership skills, making them ready to face current and future challenges and to ensure thevalorisation of knowledge and ideas to products and services for economic and social benefit following the 17 UN SustainableDevelopment Goals.

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Participants

• INM - LEIBNIZ-INSTITUT FUER NEUE MATERIALIEN GEMEINNUETZIGE GMBH · SaarbrueckenCoordinatorGermany
• BCAM - BASQUE CENTER FOR APPLIED MATHEMATICS · BilbaoSpain
• CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION COOPERATIVA DE ENERGIAS ALTERNATIVAS FUNDACION, CIC ENERGIGUNE FUNDAZIOA · MINANO ALAVASpain
• KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN · StockholmSweden
• MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · MUNCHENGermany
• MONOLITHOS KATALITES KE ANAKIKLOSI ETAIREIA PERIORISMENIS EVTHINIS · ATHINAGreece
• P&L Scientific Instrument Services · LidingöCity levelSweden
• Protochips Inc. · MorrisvilleCity levelUnited States
• SPARKNANO BV · EINDHOVENNetherlands
• STOCKHOLMS UNIVERSITET · StockholmSweden
• Springer Nature AG & Co. KGaA · BerlinGermany
• THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL · LIVERPOOLUnited Kingdom
• UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO/ EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERTSITATEA · LeioaSpain
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRIESTE · TriesteItaly
• UNIVERSITAT DES SAARLANDES · SaarbruckenGermany
• UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN · LeidenNetherlands
• VSB - TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA · OSTRAVA PORUBACzechia
• Verein zur Förderung der Kunst des biographischen Geschichtenerzählens e.V. · BerlinCity levelGermany

Links

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• DOI: 10.3030/101311389