24GRD09 HYmetbat

The Metrology Partnership will bring together the measurement science community and stakeholders to deliver on global challenges including health and climate, support the European Green Deal, and underpin innovation in industry through collaborative research.

Metrology, the science of measurement, is a building block for an industrialised and increasingly globalised and digital society: Reliable measurements are essential for innovation in industry, research, trade and regulation. New societal challenges and emerging technologies increase the need for accurate, precise, and trustworthy measurements and thus for novel measurement capabilities.

The Metrology Partnership aims to support accelerating the transition towards a green, climate neutral and digital Europe, as well as strengthening the resilience, competitiveness, and economic growth of the European industry.

European Partnerships are a key implementation tool of the European Commission’s Horizon Europe; an ambitious research and innovation programme, running from 2021 to 2027.

The European Partnership on Metrology is co-funded by the Member States and the European Union with an expected budget of over 650 million euro. The expected impact of the European Partnership on Metrology is manifold, as it will support a wide range of policies, commerce and advancement of key European challenges.

The Partnership builds on the progress achieved under the previous European Metrology Research Programmes, and aims to break new ground by contributing to the development of self-sustaining, coordinated metrology infrastructures, with the capacity to continue joint research and innovation after 2030. 

• Outcomes on  industrial and other user communities 

The uptake of the new know-how developed in the OpMetBat project will deliver a lasting impact of improving battery performance, durability and safety as fade and failure mechanisms become better understood. 

• Outcomes for the metrology and scientific communities  

The good practice guide developed will benefit the scientific community by improving reliability, repeatability/reproducibility and fidelity of operando measurements. The project will pioneer operando metrology for battery research at several European synchrotron radiation facilities and the transfer into laboratories to support industry and researchers.

The overall aim of this project is to develop new methods, best practice, instrumentation and computational tools to support the traceable characterisation of materials for new sustainable and low carbon footprint battery technologies and processes.

The specific objectives of the project are:

1. To develop a hybrid metrology platform comprising analytical methods to measure the (electro)chemical, structural and thermal properties of sustainable and low carbon footprint battery materials. This includes building on the existing framework based on benchmark materials for Lithium Ion Batteries (LIBs) to ensure its robust extension to encompass emerging battery chemistries produced using more abundant raw materials (such as Na based materials) and environmentally friendly processes, while introducing new measured properties including thermal characteristics (WP1).

2. To develop new metrology approaches and procedures to support recycling of battery materials. This includes establishing traceable analytical and calibration methods for absolute quantification of trace or minor matrix elements (e.g. Al, Cu, P, F, Fe) in end-of-life battery materials, as well as investigating how these elements impact the functional performance of recycled electrode materials (WP2).

3. To develop new instrumentation and traceable methodologies for coupled hybrid-operando characterisation of emerging sustainable battery materials to allow complementary but independent measurement of specific measurands (e.g. localised elemental composition and speciation, coordination environment, lattice parameters, temperature). This includes methods enabling the identification of correlations between interconnected material functionalities and the underlying chemical and physical properties (WP3).

4. To develop modelling and computational tools enabled by hybrid metrology (such as orthogonal, interface-sensitive, localised and global, analytical and electrochemical methods) to support new sustainable battery materials innovation. This includes identification of measurable indicators of electrode/electrolyte interface degradation and monitoring performance deterioration metrics in real-time under dynamic operating conditions to elucidate crucial capacity fade mechanisms (WP4).

5. To facilitate the take-up of the metrology infrastructure developed by the measurement supply chain standards developing organisations (ISO TC201 (surface characterisation), SC10 (X-ray methods), SC7 (electron spectroscopies), WG5 (optical interface analysis), SG2 (energy materials), ISO TC 345 (specialty materials & minerals), as well as BIPM CCQM (TG on LIBs) and VAMAS TWA 2 (Surface Chemical Analysis), and end users (e.g. automotive and battery manufacturers) (WP5).

The project 24GRD09 HyMetBat has received funding from the European Partnership on Metrology, co-financed by the European Union's Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme and from the Participating States.