Higher TRL experience of energy storage devices
NDT testing for in line measurement on electrode manufacturing
- including: thickness, porosity, binder migration, acoustic emission, areal FTIR measurements
Scale-up of new materials into pouch cells for validation testing
- sustainable, scalable materials synthesis without heat and pressure
- pouch cell testing and validation
Designed for Dismantle Energy Storage
- Designing recyclable, easily disassembled battery packs
- Developing new electrode stacking configurations for disassembly while maintaining performance
- Mechanochemical separation techniques for recycling electrode manufacturing waste
Printing and large-scale manufacturing
- Sustainable, scalable processes for material integration and battery manufacture
Low TRL experience of energy storage devices
Electrochemistry
- Cyclic Voltammetry
- Galvanostatic Charge and Discharge
- Impedance Spectroscopy
Hydrodynamic measurement
- Rotating Disc Electrode
- Porous Rotating Disc Electrode
- Rotating Ring Disc Electrode
Microscopy
- Atomic Force Microscopy
- In-situ and Ex-situ AFM of battery materials in liquids
- Double layer refinement
Spectroscopy
In situ:
Surface enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS)
Shell Isolated Nanoparticles for Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SHINERS)
Optically transparent thin electrochemistry (Raman, UV/Vis, IR)
Small Angle X-Ray Scattering
Ex Situ:
NMR Spectroscopy
Mechanical testing
- Stress testing for materials
- Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA)
- Adhesion testing
Material formulation and rheology
- Formulation of dispersion
- Rheology for process optimisation