Batteries: Modeling tomorrow's materials today

Microstructure simulations reveal strong influence of elastic deformations on charging behavior of layered oxides as cathode in sodium-ion batteries

02-May-2024 - What factors determine how quickly a battery can be charged? Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are investigating this and other questions using computer-aided simulations. Microstructure models are helping to discover and investigate new electrode materials. For ...

Battery material for the sodium-ion revolution

02-Apr-2024 - Powerful, safe and environmentally friendly - sodium-ion batteries have many advantages over conventional batteries. As they do not contain any critical raw materials such as lithium or cobalt, they could also make applications such as stationary energy storage and electromobility much cheaper. ...

New Consortium Aims to Develop More Sustainable Sodium-based Batteries

Interesting for Stationary Storage, but also Cars

28-Feb-2024 - The batteries of the future must be both powerful and sustainable. A new joint project, coordinated by the University of Würzburg, aims to make sodium-ion batteries ready to fulfill for these requirements. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding the project with more than ...

Solar power day and night

KIT controls fluctuation of renewable energies by using modern storage systems

14-Aug-2012 - Energy storage systems are one of the key technologies for the energy turnaround. With their help, the fluctuating supply of electricity based on photovoltaics and wind power can be stored until the time of consumption. At Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), several pilot plants of solar ...

BASF and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology develop tomorrow's battery materials

01-Feb-2011 - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and BASF SE will jointly develop new battery materials at KIT in the future. The contract to establish the joint laboratory was signed by Professor Eberhard Umbach, President of KIT, and Dr. Andreas Kreimeyer, member of the Board of Executive Directors ...

Start of the Ulm Helmholtz Institute

New battery technologies to be in the focus of the research facility of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in cooperation with Ulm University

21-Jan-2011 - Development of efficient battery systems for future energy supply and mobility is the objective of the Ulm Helmholtz Institute for Electrochemical Energy Storage (HIU). This new research institution celebrated its opening in Ulm. "The new Helmholtz Institute for Electrochemical Energy Storage ...