A Turkish Battery Research Group is looking for consortia to submit a proposal to HORIZON-CL5-2023-D2-02-01 and HORIZON-CL5-2023-D2-02-02 calls.

Short summary Battery Research Group is looking for consortia to help using their skills which include a multidisciplinary approach to create practical engineering solutions in its area and collaborates with basic sciences. The group's work is based on understanding the production, structure, composition, and properties of materials, creating novel materials based on these properties, and proposing effective and sustainable substitutes.

Full description The head of research group with a material science and engineering background, has been involved in a large number of national and international R&D projects in addition to academic activities in various universities. In addition to all the possibilities to synthesize materials, labs for characterizing the structural, morphological and chemical properties of materials at a nanometric scale are also available. Moreover, there is also a laboratory infrastructure with all the necessary facilities for hydrometallurgic and pyrometallurgic recovery of materials and producing-characterizing electrodes for LIBs. The research group has following infrastructures. Glove box Battery analyzers (32 channels) Dip coating Dr Blade Spin Coater Potentiostat-Galvanostat (Gamry, 2 channels) 2 Power supplies (10V-200V) High energy ball mill (up to 1100 rpm) High temperature furnace (up to 1000 Celcius) Induction furnace (installation phase) Microfluidic flow controller (3 channels) Vacuum oven Grinding and polishing device Water distillation equipment Uniquely designed coprecipitation reactor, magnetic stirrer, mechanic stirrer, pH meter

Advantages and innovations Through their work on research initiatives, the faculty members maintain close ties with the industry. Many academic staff members participate in industrial R&D projects funded by the Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council (TUBITAK) as external referees or consultants. Additionally, more than 2 of our faculty members own businesses in the ITU Technopark that are focused on producing nanomaterials for biomedical and defense industries. The academic staff is very active in conducting research. The laboratory groups have participated in a number of national, EU, and international projects.

Technical Specification or Expertise Sought They can help as a partner of a consortium in the following activities within a project; 1. By recovering materials from wastes, the footprint of the electrode active material would be decreased. 2. The development of novel high-energy electrodes can be realized by conventional manufacturing techniques in our lab. They can make metal oxide cathode synthesis via co-precipitation on a lab scale and pilot scale. 3. To control the properties of the electrode material and optimize their performances, experimental research is supported by modeling. 4. They can support the creation of a battery design that can be fabricated via mass production without consuming excess energy and/or time in material synthesis, sludge preparation, and drying steps. Their knowledge on nickel-rich cathode material, highsilicon-contained structured thin film anodes, and surface engineering of battery components to improve their mechanical, physical, and thermal properties are believed to greatly contribute to the design of this novel LIB. 5. Thanks to their knowledge obtained from the research studies they started with Argonne National Lab on the application of PVD coating methods to battery technology, they can offer solutions to reduce the resistance at interfaces (electrolyte/electrode, electrode/current collector) while promoting the adhesion of the electrode to the current collector. 6. New equipment may be designed or modification of the current equipment may be realized in the fabrication of novel batteries. 7. Modelling can be also realized to scale up the experimental outcome of the research. 8. Moreover, the experience they have gained in surface engineering can be used to reduce possible corrosion or interface resistance and stress that occurs at various parts of the cell such as electrode active material / current collector, electrode surface/electrolyte, and separator interfaces. Such modification is expected to result in both battery safety and performance improvements as the modified battery is expected to cycle smoothly even under higher current densities. 9. They can also make galvanostatic and potentiostatic tests of 2032 cells in our lab.
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