Solid state Potassium-​Ion bat­te­RIes for safe and sus­Tain­able en­er­gy sto­rage - SPI­RIT

Pro­ject sum­ma­ry

SPI­RIT con­sor­ti­um is com­po­sed of 1 uni­ver­si­ty, 3 re­se­arch cen­ters and 1 SME with the ob­jec­ti­ve to de­ve­lop the next ge­nera­ti­on of en­er­gy sto­rage de­vices, a solid-​state Potassium-​ion bat­te­ry (TRL4) based on safe, sus­tain­able and cost-​competitive anode, ca­tho­de and novel po­ly­mer elec­tro­ly­te ma­te­ri­als. The solid-​state bat­te­ries de­ve­lo­ped wit­hin SPI­RIT would find ap­p­li­ca­ti­ons in large-​scale en­er­gy sto­rage cou­pled to pro­duc­tion of re­ne­wa­bles in sun or wind farms, light elec­tro­mo­bi­li­ty and in me­di­um and small size, re­mo­te, off-​grid en­er­gy sto­rage. The so­cie­tal and eco­no­mic im­pact is ex­pec­ted to be sub­stan­ti­ve, eli­mi­na­ting the need of ha­zar­dous (Pb, LiPF6, flamm­a­ble sol­vents) and cri­ti­cal raw ma­te­ri­als (Co, Li, gra­phi­te) from our wi­des­pread en­er­gy sto­rage de­vices and crea­ting a sus­tain­able Eu­ropean bat­te­ry tech­no­lo­gy. This will en­able safer and more af­ford­a­ble en­er­gy sto­rage de­vices (SDG7) that help in the tran­si­ti­on to­wards a zero- car­bon emis­si­on en­er­gy fu­ture in the EU.