What

is the European Battery Hub ?

The European Battery Hub develops a comprehensive large-scale synchrotron-based correlative characterisation of battery materials and devices, integrating scattering, spectroscopic and imaging techniques into standardised workflows.

  • It enables the holistic understanding of reaction and degradation mechanisms in batteries.

  • It tackles key scientific questions for two highly relevant technologies, specifically Na-ion batteries (NIBs) and all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs), while ensuring the transferability of tools and protocols to other systems.

  • It brings together 6 interdisciplinary academic groups from France, Germany and Sweden with ESRF experts, to accelerate synchrotron-based advances in battery research by sharing ideas, samples, methods, beamtime and data.

  • It pushes the frontiers of operando characterisation techniques thanks to the exceptional coherence and brilliance of the X-ray sources at ESRF.

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With its new methodology, the Hub

  • Goes beyond the single-technique approach and provides to its members a toolbox for multi-beamline battery investigation, containing interoperable set-ups and cells, libraries of protocols, standards and procedures, including handling of multiple datasets and sharing.

  • Creates workflows for correlated multi-scale multi-technique data acquisition and data analysis on a wide range of materials, conditions and formats.

  • Accelerates battery materials discovery by probing materials stability, performance and aging at the scale of particle, components and real cells.

  • Acquires multidimensional datasets across extended ranges of time and length scales, enabling to observe, map, quantify and correlate reactions and degradation phenomena in battery materials and devices with unprecedented details, providing a holistic cartography of Na-ion and solid-state battery function and behavior.

  • Develops standardisation, automation and correlation of data acquisition and analysis for coordinated experiments on spectroscopy, scattering and imaging beamlines.

  • Provides a cooperation-based platform bridging battery and synchrotron communities, and the sets of tools to operate such a community-driven infrastructure.

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