Battery materials – powerful, cheap and long-lasting

The Fraunhofer R&D Center for Electromobility Bavaria at the Fraunhofer ISC Würzburg offers materials and component development for current and future battery and storage systems. The particular focus is on lithium-ion batteries, solid-state batteries and lead-acid batteries.

High-performance lithium-ion batteries are increasingly used in everything from computers, cell phones, multimedia devices, small electrical appliances, small tools, bicycles and electric vehicles to battery storage power plants. With our know-how and our material and process development we support, e.g. automotive suppliers, battery or cell manufacturers and material developers.

The European collaborative project ASTRABAT aims to develop safe and high-energy solid-state lithium-ion battery cells for electric vehicles and other applications in Europe.

The cooperation partners in the ASTRABAT project want to develop optimal solutions for lithium-ion batteries that meet the increasing requirements of the electric vehicle market in Europe with regard to environmentally friendly mobility. The aim of the joint project is to develop a safe, high-energy, sustainable and marketable cell technology that can be manufactured on a large scale in Europe.

In the "NeW-Bat" project, a new recycling process for electrochemical energy storage devices, for lithium-ion batteries, is being developed in which the battery materials are to be recovered and processed in a cost-effective and energy-efficient manner. Pressure waves are used to separate the individual components from one another.

The project is funded under the funding measure "r4 - Innovative Technologies for Resource Efficiency - Research for the Provision of Economically Strategic Raw Materials". 

The aim of the EIT RawMaterials project ECO COM'BAT was to combine environmentally friendly and high-performance materials for the next generation of high-voltage lithium-ion batteries and to improve their production.

ECO COM'BAT was coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC and conducted from April 2016 to December 2018. With material manufacturers Arkema and Umicore, cell producers SAFT and Customcells, research and technology organizations Fraunhofer, CEA, CSIC, ENEA, VITO and the Technical University of Darmstadt, the project participants covered all major aspects along the battery value chain.