Future Batteries

The grand challenge is to empower the transition to a sustainable energy supply based on renewable energies, by providing society and industry with safe, powerful, reliable, environment-friendly, and affordable battery systems. We provide the basis for establishing the development and production of battery systems along the whole value chain.

Battery systems will pave the way for clean transportation through electro mobility, enable the storage of fluctuating renewable power, provide mobility to an ageing society by improved health care support services, power wireless communication devices for society and industry 4.0, and foster the way to full electric airplanes or other visionary applications using battery systems with power electronics. In all cases, battery systems are key components and the installed battery capacities compared with today will increase at least by two orders of magnitude.

Infrastructure:

  • Center for Ageing, Reliability and Lifetime Prediction of Electrochemical and Power Electronic Systems (CARL)
  • Membrane Center
  • Living Lab Energy Campus (LLEC)

Coordinators

Prof. Dr. Ollivier Guillon
Institute of Energy Materials and Devices,
Materials Synthesis and Processing (IMD-2),
Forschungszentrum Jülich

Prof. Dr. Dirk Uwe Sauer
Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives,
RWTH Aachen University

Goal:

To provide scientific and technological basis for the development and production of battery systems along the whole value chain:

  • Electromobility, electric planes
  • Stationary storage of fluctuating renewable power
  • Health care, power wireless communication devices for society and industry 4.0

Projects:

  • Coordination role in several BMBF competence clusters (BattNutzung, GreenBatt, Festbatt, ExcellBattMat), FFB (Forschungsfertigung Batteriezelle) in Münster
  • German-French project “High-Power Batteries” (HIPOBAT)
  • Strengthened involvement in the BMBF advisory board

Participants

Prof. Rik W. De Doncker

  • ISEA & E.ON ERC (Fac. 6), RWTH AC Power electronics for charging and balancing

Prof. Rüdiger Eichel

  • IET-1, FZJ Fundamentals of electrochemical process and materials, analytics

Prof. Michael Eikerling

  • IET-3, FZJ Theory and modeling of materials

Prof. Egbert Figgemeier

  • IMD-4 (HIMS), FZJ & ISEA (Fac. 6), RWTH AC Ageing of batteries, silicon-based anodes, pre-lithiation

Prof. Bernd Friedrich

  • IME (Fac. 5), RWTH AC Recycling of batteries

Prof. Olivier Guillon

  • IMD-2, FZJ Solid state electrolytes and cells, analytics and modeling, transfer to production

Prof. Dina Fattakhova-Rohlfing

  • IMD-2, FZJ Solid state electrolytes and cells, analytics and modeling, transfer to production

Prof. Achim Kampker

  • PEM (Fac. 4), RWTH AC Battery cell production, battery system integration

Prof. Maria Kateri

  • ISW (Fac. 1), RWTH AC Statistical mathematical methods for lifetime and reliability prediction

Prof. Reinhold Kneer

  • WSA (Fac. 4), RWTH AC Thermal management

Prof. Joachim Mayer

  • GfE (Fac. 1), RWTH AC & Ernst-Ruska-Zentrum, FZJ Electron microscopy, materials analysis

Prof. Stefan Pischinger

  • VKA (Fac. 4), RWTH AC Battery system integration in mobile application, battery diagnostics

Prof. Dirk Uwe Sauer

  • ISEA (Fac. 6), RWTH AC & IMD-4 (HIMS), FZJ Battery system technology and integration, battery modeling, ageing and diagnostics

Prof. Robert Spatschek

  • IMD-1, FZJ Thermochemistry of energy materials

Prof. Martin Winter

  • IMD-4 (HIMS), FZJ Li-ion and next-generation (and solid state) battery materials and cell designs, electrodes, electrolytes, and analysis/methods