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🚀 #SOLVE joins the Solid4B Cluster ! 🔋 👨🔬 #Solid4BCluster works to enhance research synergies among the European-level projects working on #SolidStateBatteries, translating research data into valuable knowledge for diverse stakeholders. This cluster was built to synchronize and conjointly promote the R&D topics in the #electric #vehicle field. 🤝 🔋 By joining the #SOLID4B cluster, SOLVE will benefit from the experience of established members and create connections with other projects. Taking part in joint #communication and outreach efforts will increase SOLVE’s visibility and support among stakeholders. With SOLID4B’s established presence in solid-state battery research, this collaboration will also help maintain a strong European network for #SSB research and development. 🔎 Find out more about the members of the cluster 👉 https://shorturl.at/HYUb7 #battery #sustainable #lithium #celltechnology #electrolyte #vehicles #Liion Esperanza Sedano Varo | Andriy Kvasha | Giulia Moggia | Pauline Bonino | Rahmandhika Firdauzha Hary Hernandha, Ph.D. | SPINMATE | HE ADVAGEN | #SeatBelt | AM4BAT Project | PULSELiON | SOLiD Project | HIDDEN Project With the support of the European Commission and CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency

📢 🔋 This week we're delighted to introduce you to the delfort group. #delfort is a privately owned #manufacturer of specialty #paper and printed products. Their #IonPort® fiber-based #separators ensure seamless ion flow between #anode and #cathode in #batteries and #supercapacitors. Designed for #longevity and #endurance, it enables extra charging cycles, extending lifetime. Restoring energy. 🎤 Why was it important for you to be involved in #SSB technology R&D and joining the SOLVE project 🎙 Being involved in SSB technology and joining the SOLVE project is crucial for delfort as it aligns with our focus on #innovation and #sustainability. By leveraging our expertise in ultra-thin, porous substrates, we contribute to the development of lightweight, efficient current collectors for solid-state #batteries. This project opens new opportunities in #energy #storage, allowing us to expand our specialty paper solutions into the growing energy sector and support advancements in sustainable technologies. 🎤 What exactly is your role in the project? 🎙 delfort, as a specialty paper manufacturer, brings unique expertise in designing cellulose substrates. In collaboration with Pulsedeon for Work Package 2, delfort supplies custom-designed cellulose substrates, while Pulsedeon applies advanced metallisation techniques. This combined expertise enables the creation of an ultra-thin, lightweight metallised cellulose substrate, which will serve as a current collector in AF-SSB, and potentially LiM-SSB, designs. 🎤 Can you present us an object/equipment/component/or something that illustrates this participation? 🎙 Our focus at delfort lies on high-quality and uniform paper production. The cellulose-based material shown in our team's hands in the picture is an ultra-thin substrate already manufactured on a large scale. These substrates will be supplied to #SOLVE partners based on their specific requirements. 🔋 #AllWillBeSolid! 💎 #SolidStateBattery 🔝#LoadingInProgress Andriy Kvasha | Esperanza Sedano Varo | Christian Mair | Sabine Eberharter | Volgger Dietmar | Sven Plappert Other project partners: CIDETEC Energy Storage | Arkema | Saft | Centro Ricerche Fiat | CEA | Pulsedeon | ACCUREC-Recycling GmbH- | Tampere University | Pipistrel Vertical Solutions | LOMARTOV SL | Fraunhofer IKTS | Empa | Oerlikon | Politecnico di Torino | #Tenerrdis 👏 🇪🇺 With the support of the European Commission and CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (Giulia Moggia) | #FundedByEU Visit our website 👉 https://lnkd.in/dWRpK9iZ

📢 🔋 Do you know Tampere University (TAU) in #Finland? One of the most multidisciplinary universities in Finland which bring together research and education in technology, health and society. The University is known for its excellence in teaching and research and it collaborates with hundreds of universities and organisations worldwide. The community consists of about 22,500 students and around 4,200 staff members from more than 80 countries. 🎤 Why was it important for you to be involved in #SSB technology R&D and joining the SOLVE project 🎙 With Tampere University’s (TAU) strategy to work together to build a sustainable world through cutting-edge research in solid-state battery technology, joining the SOLVE project means developing anode materials and their scale-up to target large scale production of Gen4b LiM-SSBs and AF-SSBs. To develop safer, durable batteries and carry the technology from lab scale to TRL6, major challenges from materials processing to interfacial coating technology, and cell performance must be resolved. By joining SOLVE, TAU’s vast experience in materials processing, ceramics, and coatings technology research would be relevantly used to bring SOLVE project’s KPIs to fruition, and safer batteries to the market. 🎤 What exactly is your role in the project? 🎙 In the SOLVE project, TAU will work in close collaboration with Pulsedeon Oy on anode development and testing. TAU will support the consortium by leading anode material target development for PLD production of cell layers in anode, test material performance of half-cells, and examine the interfacial phenomenon in cell microstructure through post-mortem studies on coin and pouch cells. 🎤 Can you present us an object/equipment/component/or something that illustrates this participation? 🎙 TAU has been in recent years developing it battery laboratory, where the newest addition is an in-situ electrical module for samples being studied in high-temperature X-ray diffraction in controlled atmospheres for small coin cells. This equipment will help to analyze in-situ whether any undesired chemical reactions occur during the charging and discharging phases of cells developed in SOLVE project 🔋 #AllWillBeSolid! 💎 #SolidStateBattery 🔝#LoadingInProgress Andriy Kvasha | Esperanza Sedano Varo | Amandeep Singh | Erkki Levänen | Katri Harjuveteläinen Other project partners: CIDETEC Energy Storage | Arkema | Saft | Centro Ricerche Fiat | CEA | Pulsedeon | ACCUREC-Recycling GmbH- | delfort | Pipistrel Vertical Solutions | LOMARTOV SL | Fraunhofer IKTS | Empa | Oerlikon | Politecnico di Torino | Tenerrdis 👏 🇪🇺 With the support of the European Commission and CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (Giulia Moggia) | #FundedByEU Visit our website 👉 https://lnkd.in/dWRpK9iZ

📢 🔋 Today we're going to talk to you about LOMARTOV SL. A company that supports #innovative projects becoming more #sustainable, mitigating and balancing their daily impact on our planet and resources, ensuring at the same time a safe and successful market uptake of innovative #technologies, with a high impact potential for our economies and societies. 🎤 Why was it important for you to be involved in #SSB technology R&D and joining the SOLVE project 🎙 Our involvement in the SOLVE project builds on our experience as a partner in the #ASTRABAT project, where we provided eco-design guidelines and conducted a full Life Cycle Assessment (#LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (#LCC) analysis to develop an all-solid-state battery (ASSB) for electric vehicles. Joining SOLVE allows us to continue our commitment to advancing #sustainable #energy and #mobility solutions and reinforcing Europe’s position in the global #battery market. The shift to solid-state batteries (SSBs) is crucial for enhancing energy #density, #safety, and sustainability, which are key to achieving the EU’s climate goals and promoting #electromobility. 🎤 What exactly is your role in the project? 🎙 In #SOLVE, #LOMARTOV is responsible for ensuring that sustainability is a core component of SSB development. We lead the implementation of environmental impact strategies, applying eco-design principles and conducting comprehensive assessments of materials and processes using the Safe and Sustainable by Design framework. Our role also includes validating the environmental and economic impacts of the SSB prototypes through detailed LCA and LCC analyses, ensuring that the technology is both high-performing and aligned with Europe’s sustainability objectives. 🔋 #AllWillBeSolid! 💎 #SolidStateBattery 🔝#LoadingInProgress Andriy Kvasha | Esperanza Sedano Varo | Evelina Castellana | Lorena Romero Santacreu | Isaac Herraiz Cardona | Marco Bianchini, PhD | Alberto González Other project partners: CIDETEC Energy Storage | Arkema | Saft | Centro Ricerche Fiat | CEA | Pulsedeon | ACCUREC-Recycling GmbH- | delfort | Pipistrel Vertical Solutions | Tampere University | Fraunhofer IKTS | Empa | Oerlikon | Politecnico di Torino | Tenerrdis 👏 🇪🇺 With the support of the European Commission and CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (Giulia Moggia) | #FundedByEU Visit our website 👉 https://lnkd.in/dWRpK9iZ

📢 🔋 Today we present you Politecnico di Torino, the first Italian #Engineering #School founded in the wave of the technical and #scientific #innovation that gave rise to the most prestigious European #polytechnic schools in the mid-19th century. POLITO’s research seeks to drive forward innovative #technologies for #electromobility and deliver #sustainable solutions to intrude the market in the next future. 🕵♂️ We asked them 3 questions : 🎤 Why was it important for you to be involved in #SSB technology R&D and joining the SOLVE project 🎙 POLITO participates in the SOLVE project to address the challenges associated with all-solid-state #batteries (#SSBs) to effectively operate at moderate temperatures (25-40ºC). The team focuses on designing and improving hybrid solid #polymer #electrolyte (HSPE) formulations, aiming at creating scalable, affordable, and eco-friendly solutions, e.g. by adopting a dry, sustainable processes. While there has been progress, there are still significant obstacles, especially regarding improving performance at room temperature and compatibility with high-voltage #cathodes. 🎤 What exactly is your role in the project? 🎙 #POLITO’s role is to develop and fine-tune HSPE formulations. Our work focuses on enhancing the performance and compatibility of these materials with the other components of solid-state batteries. We are working closely with project partners to ensure that our efforts align with the SOLVE project's overall objectives and contribute meaningfully to advancing SSB technology. 🎤 Can you present us something that illustrates this participation? 🎙 Currently, we are engaged in the lab-scale development of polymer-based electrolytes, their assembly in battery cells and related characterisation/testing, and the transfer of the resulting materials to a larger scale. To optimize our formulations, we are selecting the most effective industrial methods for processing significant quantities of polymers and #lithium salts in a solvent-free manner. A critical aspect of preparing solid electrolytes is maintaining an inert and dry atmosphere; thus, glove boxes, lab scale extruder, and potentiostat/galvanostat are integral to our daily operations. The POLITO team is committed to developing practical manufacturing strategies for free-standing, thin and highly conducting solid-state electrolyte membranes. 🔋 #AllWillBeSolid! 💎 #SolidStateBattery 🔝#LoadingInProgress Andriy Kvasha | Esperanza Sedano Varo | Giuseppe Antonio Elia | Other project partners: CIDETEC Energy Storage | Arkema | Saft | Centro Ricerche Fiat | CEA | Pulsedeon | ACCUREC-Recycling GmbH- | delfort | Pipistrel Vertical Solutions | Tampere University | Fraunhofer IKTS | Empa | Oerlikon | LOMARTOV SL | Tenerrdis 👏 🇪🇺 With the support of the European Commission and CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (Giulia Moggia) | #FundedByEU Visit our website 👉 https://lnkd.in/dWRpK9iZ

 📢 🔋 Let's go Pipistrel Vertical Solutions! Today we introduce you to the aircraft production company based in #Ajdovščina, #Slovenia. 🕵♂️ We asked them 3 questions : 🎤 Why was it important for you to be involved in #SSB technology R&D and joining the SOLVE project   🎙 Advancements in #lithium-ion #battery #cell technology with liquid #electrolytes are paving the way for the future of #sustainable #aviation. Being involved in Solid-State Battery (SSB) technology R&D and joining the SOLVE project is crucial for us because SSBs represent the next frontier in battery innovation. SSBs offer high gravimetric #energy density at a certain discharge rate with enhanced #safety and longer operational lifetimes. These advancements are particularly important for our company to maintain its position as the global leader in #electric aviation and to bring the next generation of sustainable aircraft to the market.   By defining the cell-level and module-level battery specifications, we ensure that our solutions meet the performance requirements of our aircraft, tailored to the needs of our customers.   🎤 What exactly is your role in the project? 🎙 As an end-user and system integrator of Gen 4b SSBs of SOLVE, Pipistrel defines cell-level and module-level specification and requirements by utilizing state-of-the-art Velis Electro as a target vehicle. In addition, rigours testing protocols will be established to characterize, qualify, test and evaluate, and validate the SOLVE batteries in accordance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.   🎤 Can you present us an object/equipment/component/or something that illustrates this participation? 🎙 Pipistrel’s Velis Electro is the world’s first, and currently only, electric aircraft to receive full type-certification from the European Union #Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). Arriving from the future, the #VelisElectro is the greenest way of learning to fly. The two-seater propeller driven aircraft, intended primarily for #pilot training, is a game-changing aircraft not only in terms of sustainable aviation but also in terms of technological #innovations and cost-efficiency. The endurance was designed to cover for typical flight school utilization for local flying and is a compromise between performance, #environmental robustness (flying in hot, flying in cold, charging in hot, charging in cold) and battery system lifetime. 🔋 #AllWillBeSolid! 💎 #SolidStateBattery #ChargingInProgress 🔝 Andriy Kvasha | Esperanza Sedano Varo | Sudharshan A. | Karmen Peternelj Other project partners: CIDETEC Energy Storage | Arkema | Saft | Centro Ricerche Fiat | CEA | Pulsedeon | ACCUREC-Recycling GmbH- | delfort | Politecnico di Torino | Tampere University | Fraunhofer IKTS | Empa | Oerlikon | LOMARTOV SL | Tenerrdis 👏 🇪🇺 With the support of the European Commission and CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (Giulia Moggia) | #FundedByEU

📢 🔋 Today we'd like to introduce you to Arkema ! 🔎 Building on its unique set of expertise in materials #science, Arkema designs materials to address the ever-growing demand for #innovative and #sustainable materials, driven by the challenges of new #energies, new #technologies, the depletion of #resources, #mobility, and increasing urbanization. 🕵♂️ We asked them 3 questions : 🎤 Why was it important for you to be involved in #SSB technology R&D and joining the #SOLVE project?   🎙 Inspired by the challenges of developing all-solid-state batteries (SSBs) with efficient operation at 25-40ºC, #ARKEMA joins SOLVE to develop optimized hybrid solid #polymer #electrolyte (HSPE) formulations that will enable cost-effective, scalable, and eco-friendly dry-extrusion production process. The research still faces formidable challenges in gaining functionality at the #cell level, and scalability of manufacturing processes. Our innovations and efforts aim to develop cutting-edge solutions for next-generation #vehicles and to propose sustainable solutions for the market. 🎤 What exactly is your role in the project?   🎙 As responsible of the World Package 3 (WP3): “Cell components towards #gigafactory scale and #circular economy”, ARKEMA objective is to develop and manufacture SSB cell components with the advanced materials for further cell assembly and testing. Our main task will be focused on the #manufacturing of the HSPE #membranes in a roll-to-roll fashion. ARKEMA's participation in SOLVE will contribute to strengthening our unique position as a global leader in specialty materials in high-risk markets such as SSB, providing a long-term strategy.   🎤 Can you present us an object/equipment/component/or something that illustrates this participation? 🎙 Currently, we are developing a polymer-based electrolyte at large scale. Using industrial methods, we are preselecting the best methods that will enable to process large amounts of polymers and Li salts in a solvent free manner. To prepare solid electrolytes, an inert and dry atmosphere is fundamental, thus, glove boxes like the shown in the picture are part of the daily work. ARKEMA team develops viable manufacturing strategies for free-standing thin solid state electrolyte membranes.   🔋 #AllWillBeSolid! 💎 #SolidStateBattery #ChargingInProgress 🔝 Andriy Kvasha | Esperanza Sedano Varo | Luz ZAVALA | Anthony Bonnet | Virginie Buche | Gérôme Godillot | Christophe Falce | Other project partners: CIDETEC Energy Storage | Saft | Centro Ricerche Fiat | Pipistrel Vertical Solutions | CEA | Pulsedeon | ACCUREC-Recycling GmbH- | delfort | Politecnico di Torino | Tampere University | Fraunhofer IKTS | Empa | Oerlikon | LOMARTOV SL | Tenerrdis 👏 🇪🇺 With the support of the European Commission and CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (Giulia Moggia) | #FundedByEU

🚀 🔋Now it's Saft's turn to introduce themselves and explain their role in the project. 🔎 For over 100 years, Saft’s longer-lasting batteries and systems have provided critical safety applications, back-up power and propulsion for their customers. Whether it be for aerospace or transportation, telecom & networks or oil & gas, health or energy utilities, Saft batteries are used for numerous applications. SAFT is a subsidiary of TotalEnergies. 🎤 Why was it important for you to be involved in SSB technology R&D and joining the #SOLVE project? 🎙As a specialized innovative batteries maker, SAFT is always working on to develop new battery technologies, to provide to its client, the best solution according to their needs. Within this strategy, solid state batteries represent a major step forward, which should make it possible to meet new battery requirements. Before to start the marketing of these new battery technologies, some technical issues must be solved. On type of these technical issues concern the solid electrolyte behavior, especially those with polymers. Joining the SOLVE project is a great opportunity for SAFT to integrate a high-level and complementarity consortium, grouping the best competences to reach our targets, which are focused on the next battery generation development. It is also an opportunity to continue existing or past collaborations, and to create new ones. 🎤 What exactly is your role in the project? 🎙As Head of Partnerships, Benchmark and Public funding for the Saft Solid State Battery Program, I’m supporting my colleagues (in charge of the technical aspects of the project) for the preparation, submission and launch of the project. This mainly concerns the administrative and financial aspects of the project. 🎤 Can you present us an object/equipment/component/or something that illustrates this participation? 🎙In the SOLVE project, SAFT will make available its new prototype line, dedicated to Lithium solid state technologies (Gen 4 batteries). Using components coming from the SOLVE project partners, SAFT will build prototype cells representative of what future commercial cells should be. This prototype line will enclose all the equipment needed, either taken from existing "Li-ion" battery processes, or specific to solid-state batteries. The prototype line will allow SAFT to make cells similar as it will be manufactured for commercial applications. 🔋 #AllWillBeSolid! 💎 #SolidStateBattery #ChargingInProgress 🔝 Andriy Kvasha | Esperanza Sedano Varo | Bernard SAHUT, Ph. D. | Elisabetta Fedeli Project partners: CIDETEC Energy Storage | Arkema | Centro Ricerche Fiat | Pipistrel Vertical Solutions | CEA | Pulsedeon | ACCUREC-Recycling GmbH- | delfort | Politecnico di Torino | Tampere University | Fraunhofer IKTS | Empa | Oerlikon | LOMARTOV SL | Tenerrdis 👏 🇪🇺 With the support of the European Commission and CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (Giulia Moggia) | #FundedByEU

🚀 🔋 We continue our tour of the consortium. Today, we're interviewing Empa! 🔎 As an interdisciplinary #research institute of the #ETH Domain, #Empa, the #Swiss Federal #Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, conducts cutting-edge materials and technology research. Empa develops alternative battery concepts such as solid-state batteries, batteries with aqueous #electrolyte systems, as well as #sodium, #magnesium and #aluminum-based batteries. Furthermore, Empa tests the #reliability of battery modules, conducts life cycle analyses and researches concepts for the #recycling of batteries. 🎤 Why was it important for you to be involved in SSB technology R&D and joining the SOLVE project? 🎙In our Laboratory, we investigate the underlying mechanisms of SSB operation and new device architectures and chemistries. Collaboration within SOLVE allows us to learn from others within the consortium and apply our own research in a much broader context. Through SOLVE we are aiming to share our expertise and help advance #SSB research further than we could alone.    🎤 What exactly is your role in the project?   🎙Our role involves characterisation of #chemistry and structure of #battery components to gain insights into the materials and processes involved in the batteries made in SOLVE. We will use a range of advanced techniques ranging from #electron microscopy, through secondary ion mass #spectroscopy to X-ray #photoelectron spectroscopy and more.   🎤 Can you present us an object/equipment/component/or something that illustrates this participation?   🎙This is an image from one of our recent papers showing the capabilities of our #electron microscopy approach. It shows a novel thin film #cathode material made of Fe and LiF where after cycling the cathode is 'restructured' at the nanoscale with larger particles and changed chemistry (Fe migrates towards the Ti current collector). This spontaneous restructuring results in improved electrochemical performance. Importantly, this process is only possible to probe thanks to the high resolution of electron microscopy. We are looking forward to studying processes similar to this in the batteries from SOLVE. More information about battery activities in Switzerland can be found here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dQefd3dG To view the article linked to the image 👉 https://lnkd.in/dkV5KbvR 🔋 #AllWillBeSolid! 💎 #SolidStateBattery #ChargingInProgress 🔝 Andriy Kvasha | Esperanza Sedano Varo | Jędrzej Morzy | Beyzanur E. Project partners: CIDETEC EnergyStorage | Saft | Arkema | Centro Ricerche Fiat | Pipistrel Vertical Solutions | CEA | Pulsedeon | ACCUREC-Recycling GmbH- | delfort | Politecnico di Torino | Tampere University | Fraunhofer IKTS | Empa | Oerlikon | LOMARTOV SL | Tenerrdis 👏 🇪🇺 With the support of the European Commission and CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (Giulia Moggia) | #FundedByEU

📢 🔋 Over the next 2 months, we're going to be introducing you to the members of our #SOLVE consortium, whose challenge is to develop the solid-state battery of tomorrow! We start with the project coordinator: CIDETEC #Energy #Storage 🔎 CIDETEC Energy Storage is a research and development organization specializing in advanced #battery technologies, designing, developing and testing the batteries of the future for 25 years. Their activity covers the entire value chain from battery chemistry to final application. They design and develop cells, modules and battery packs tailored to their customers’ needs, with a clear commitment towards technology transfer to industry. 🕵♂️ We asked them 3 questions : Why was it important for you to be involved in #SSB technology R&D and joining the SOLVE project? 🎙 Solid-state battery (SSB) technology is crucial for achieving more efficient and safe energy storage solutions. For us at CIDETEC Energy Storage, being coordinator of the SOLVE project is a unique opportunity to share and expand our expertise in the SSB domain. SOLVE brings together leading actors across the SSB field, from computational tools and materials development to battery module engineering development for applications in #electromobility and #aviation. We believe SOLVE will make significant strides toward the implementation of solid-state batteries and help drive the future of sustainable energy. What exactly is your role in the project? 🎙 CIDETEC Energy Storage plays a multifaceted role in the project. First of all, we are proud to coordinate the project. We are actively involved at five different levels of the value chain— materials, cell components, #cell, module development and physics-based modelling and testing—while also coordinating the overall project. This involvement allows us to showcase our R&D capabilities across various aspects of the SSB technology and contribute to advancing Europe's position in the field. Can you present us an object/equipment/component/or something that illustrates this participation? 🎙 One of the key objectives of the project where CIDETEC Energy Storage plays a crucial role is to develop, manufacture and test a medium-sized solid state pouch cell with a target capacity up to 10 Ah, high energy #density and enhanced #safety. This component symbolizes our commitment and contribution to achieving the project's ambitious goals towards greener Europe. 🔋 #AllWillBeSolid! 💎 Solid state battery charging in progress 🔝 Andriy Kvasha | Esperanza Sedano Varo Project partners: #CIDETECEnergyStorage | Saft | Arkema | Centro Ricerche Fiat | Pipistrel Vertical Solutions | CEA | Pulsedeon | ACCUREC-Recycling GmbH- | delfort | Politecnico di Torino | Tampere University | Fraunhofer IKTS | Empa | Oerlikon | LOMARTOV SL | #Tenerrdis With the support of the European Commission and CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (Giulia Moggia) | #FundedByEU