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The vision for BATTERY 2030+ is to invent the batteries of the future, providing European industry with disruptive technologies and a competitive edge across the full value chain, that will enable Europe to take the lead in battery science and technology.

This newsletter gives you an update on what's going on within the initiative. Enjoy your reading!

A moment with our Director Kristina Edström

May and June have been full of Battery 2030+ results and events. New insights about interfaces and interphases, smart battery functionalities, apps for data-storage and data handling available on the BIG-MAP website, and much more was presented at our annual conference. This year it was held in Grenoble under the supervision of EMIRI and hosted by CEA and CNRS.

The BEPA and Batteries Europe’s discussions in Brussels were indeed highlights with representatives from all battery expert categories.

It can’t be helped but I also have to mention the Batteries Star’s Award 2024 from Batt4EU and handed out by Ms. Rosalinde Van der Vlies Director of DG R&I. Our members Silvia Bodoardo, Claude Chanson, Eliana Quartarone (Renovate), Marja Vilkman (Hidden), Philippe Jacques, Marcel Meeus and myself where awarded. Included in this happy crowd was also Edel Sheridan and Ilka van Dalwigk – great supporters of Battery 2030+.

Just before the summer breaks we had two important in-person workshops in Oslo. One on Best practices in batteries discussing ontologies and data sharing, described in detail in this newsletter. It is nice to see that our efforts now have reach a maturity so that they can be implemented. The second day was devoted to our development of the roadmap. With new projects within recycling, raw materials and circularities as well as manufacturing and digital twins plus the ongoing ones we will have much more to tell in the near future.

Battery 2030+ Annual conference in Grenoble

At the end of May some 300 people gathered for Battery 2030+ annual conference under the lead of Kristina Edström, Uppsala University, and Philippe Jacques, Emiri. We met at CEA´s beautiful premises in Grenoble.

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Big-Map workshop group photo Grindelwald

Battery 2030+ projects update from our conference

All the Battey 2030+ projects presented themselves at our annual conference. HealingBat told us how they are tackling challenges like producing a sensorized Li-S battery with all interfaces working, Salamander how to integrate sensors in the material and the impact these extra materials add, and Phoenix how to embed sensors and self-healing functionalities to detect degradation and repair damage in the cells. To enhance performance also the inner life of the battery must be figured out. This is the job for UltraBat that captures ultrafast and electron dynamics, of Opera that create a multiscale modelling for solid-state batteries and Opincharge analysing and modelling interface dynamics and charge transport in Li-ion batteries. The three recycling projects ReUse, Revitalize and Renovate presented different ideas and methods on how to quick and environmentally friendly recycle different kinds of batteries. Battery research is moving into the computer; BatCat is integrating physics-based modelling into actionable modelling to support battery production and BATTwin develops a scalable digital-twin platform for enhanced production. To fulfil the value chain also mining aspects are represented in this round of Battery 2030+, the project Streams investigates sustainable technologies for the European raw materials supply chain and Cicero look at the supply of Ni, Co and Mn for NMC Li-ion battery production.

Check out all our abstracts form the conference!

The three abstracts that won poster awards sponsored by Wiley, ChemSusChem and Batteries & Supercaps was, Ali Saad from CEA, Frode Fagerli from SINTEF and Xiliang Lian from Sorbonne University. Congratulations!

The young scientists at our annual conference

The Young Scientists (maximum PhD+7) had the opportunity to meet during the Battery 2030+ annual conference. During the two dedicated discussion sessions (on Monday afternoon and Tuesday evening), the seeds for a community were sawn, in which the Young Scientists can share their knowledge and experience with peers. As an immediate action, a Teams group has been created to stay in touch with each other, organize meetings at conferences, ask questions, and possibly find answers to our problems!

In these first meetings, the Young Scientists discussed the topics they are working on, what they would like to explore, and what they would like to discuss in the coming Young Scientist Event which will take place in different cities across Europe in June 2025. Stay tuned for more information!

If you want to join the Teams Server of the Young Scientist community, please click the button below.

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Battery 2030+ Excellence Seminars

If you missed any of our fantastic seminars, do not fret! We have recorded them and you can watch them on our website. Click the button below and watch them all!

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