• Brokering between tenants for an international materials acceleration platform 

      Vogler, Monika; Busk, Jonas; Hajiyani, Hamidreza; Jørgensen, Peter Bjørn; Safaei, Nehzat; Castelli, Ivano E.; Ramirez, Francisco Fernando; Carlsson, Johan; Pizzi, Giovanni; Clark, Simon; Hanke, Felix; Bhowmik, Arghya; Stein, Helge S. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      The efficient utilization of resources in accelerated materials science necessitates flexible, reconfigurable software-defined research workflows. We demonstrate a brokering approach to modular and asynchronous research ...
    • Cold Sintering as a Cost-Effective Process to Manufacture Porous Zinc Electrodes for Rechargeable Zinc-Air Batteries 

      Jayasayee, Kaushik; Clark, Simon; King, Cara; Dahl, Paul Inge; Tolchard, Julian R; Juel, Mari (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Zinc-air batteries (ZABs) offer a sustainable and safe pathway to low-cost energy storage. Recent research shows that thermally-sintered porous Zn electrodes with a three-dimensional network structure can enhance the ...
    • Data Management Plans: the Importance of Data Management in the BIG-MAP Project 

      Castelli, Ivano; Arismendi-Arrieta, Daniel; Bhowmik, Arghya; Cekic-Laskovic, Isidora; Clark, Simon; Flores, Eibar; Flowers, Jackson; Frederiksen, Karina; Friis, Jesper; Grimaud, Alexis; Hansen, Karin; Hardwick, Laurence; Hermansson, Kersti; Lauritzen, Hanne; Le Cras, Frederic; Li, Hongjiao; Lyonnard, Sandrine; Lorrmann, Henning; Dominko, Robert; Koeniger, Lukas; Marzari, Nicola; Niedzicki, Leszek; Pizzi, Giovanni; Rahmanian, Fuzhan; Stein, Helge; Uhrin, Martin; Wenzel, Wolfgang; Winter, Martin; Woelke, Christian; Vegge, Tejs (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Open access to research data is increasingly important for accelerating research. Grant authorities therefore request detailed plans for how data is managed in the projects they finance. We have recently developed such a ...
    • Designing Aqueous Organic Electrolytes for Zinc-Air Batteries: Method, Simulation, and Validation 

      Clark, Simon; Mainar, Aroa R.; Iruin, Elena; Colmenares, Luis C.; Blázquez, Alberto; Tolchard, Julian R; Jusys, Zenonas; Horstmann, Birger (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Aqueous zinc–air batteries (ZABs) are a low‐cost, safe, and sustainable technology for stationary energy storage. ZABs with pH‐buffered near‐neutral electrolytes have the potential for longer lifetime compared to traditional ...
    • Digitalization of Battery Manufacturing: Current Status, Challenges, and Opportunities 

      Ayerbe, Elixabete; Berecibar, Maitane; Clark, Simon; Franco, Alejandro A.; Ruhland, Janna (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      As the world races to respond to the diverse and expanding demands for electrochemical energy storage solutions, lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) remain the most advanced technology in the battery ecosystem. Even as unprecedented ...
    • Rechargeable Batteries of the Future—The State of the Art from a BATTERY 2030+ Perspective 

      Clark, Simon; Fichtner, Maximilian; Edström, Kristina; Ayerbe, Elixabete; Berecibar, Maitane; Bhowmik, Arghya; Castelli, Ivano E.; Dominko, Roberto; Erakca, Merve; Franco, Alejandro A.; Grimaud, Alexis; Horstmann, Birger; Latz, Arnulf; Lorrmann, Henning; Meeus, Marcel; Narayan, Rekha; Pammer, Frank; Ruhland, Janna; Stein, Helge; Vegge, Tejs; Weil, Marcel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The development of new batteries has historically been achieved through discovery and development cycles based on the intuition of the researcher, followed by experimental trial and error—often helped along by serendipitous ...
    • A Review of Model-Based Design Tools for Metal-Air Batteries 

      Clark, Simon; Latz, Arnulf; Horstmann, Birger (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)
      The advent of large-scale renewable energy generation and electric mobility is driving a growing need for new electrochemical energy storage systems. Metal-air batteries, particularly zinc-air, are a promising technology ...
    • A Roadmap for Transforming Research to Invent the Batteries of the Future Designed within the European Large Scale Research Initiative BATTERY 2030+ 

      Amici, Julia; Asinari, Pietro; Ayerbe, Elixabete; Barboux, Philippe; Bayle-Guillemaud, Pascale; Behm, R. Juergen; Berecibar, Maitane; Berg, Erik; Bhowmik, Arghya; Bodoardo, Silvia; Castelli, Ivano E.; Cekic-Laskovic, Isidora; Christensen, Rune; Clark, Simon; Diehm, Ralf; Dominko, Robert; Fichtner, Maximilian; Franco, Alejandro A.; Grimaud, Alexis; Guillet, Nicolas; Hahlin, Maria; Hartmann, Sarah; Heiries, Vincent; Hermansson, Kersti; Heuer, Andreas; Jana, Saibal; Jabbour, Lara; Kallo, Josef; Latz, Arnulf; Lorrmann, Henning; Løvvik, Ole Martin; Lyonnard, Sandrine; Meeus, Marcel; Paillard, Elie; Perraud, Simon; Placke, Tobias; Punckt, Christian; Raccurt, Oliver; Ruhland, Janna; Sheridan, Edel Maria; Stein, Helge; Tarascon, Jean-Marie; Trapp, Victor; Vegge, Tejs; Weil, Marcel; Wentzel, Wolfgang; Winter, Martin; Wolf, Andreas; Edström, Kristina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This roadmap presents the transformational research ideas proposed by “BATTERY 2030+,” the European large-scale research initiative for future battery chemistries. A “chemistry-neutral” roadmap to advance battery research, ...
    • Toward a Unified Description of Battery Data 

      Clark, Simon; Bleken, Francesca Lønstad; Stier, Simon; Flores, Eibar; Andersen, Casper Welzel; Marcinek, Marek; Szczesna-Chrzan, Anna; Gaberscek, Miran; Palacin, Rosa; Uhrin, Martin; Friis, Jesper (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Battery research initiatives and giga-scale production generate an abundance of diverse data spanning myriad fields of science and engineering. Modern battery development is driven by the confluence of traditional domains ...