GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Successful projects are expected to cover at least three of the following aspects regarding improvement of materials:

• Scalable and manufacturable surface coating materials for metallic anode protection and/or activation (e.g. CVD, PLD, ALD…) to increase safety and cycle life.
• Binders with high chemical and thermal stability to reduce toxicity and enable the use of water-based manufacturing processes.
• Design and development of new cell technologies with higher capacities compared to Li-ion cells.
• Improve and increase the electrodes-electrolyte compatibility with additives to increase over cell time.
• Improve the understanding of the chemical and/or electrochemical reaction mechanisms using advanced techniques in the cells for Gen5 technologies developed.
• Improve the insertion cathode with high charge-storage capacity.
• Use of safe and non-toxic materials.
• New efficient and sustainable catalysts that can promote polysulfide conversion in Metal-S batteries or the oxygen evolution/reduction reactions in rechargeable Metal-air batteries.

Successful projects are also expected to cover all of the following aspects regarding design and manufacturing:

• Innovative cell design ensuring high performances, low cost and ready for recycling.
• Develop relevant manufacturing processes and assess the possible manufacturing compatibility with the existing lithium-ion production infrastructure and production lines.
• Proof of concept possibly at small pilot line scale.
• Design production with low environmental impact, safe and healthy environment for workers, low energy consumption.

Projects are encouraged to demonstrate also techno-economic suitability of the solution for other emerging markets, such as motive power for off-road applications, or energy storage applications.