Battery Research

Batteries are of great importance for application in electric vehicles and for energy storage in renewable electricity generation, and a key research topic at TUM (cf. website of TUM.battery). While Li ion batteries represent the state of art technology for electric mobility, they cannot cover the entire storage need associated with renewable electricity. There, new solutions are required to close the gap between supply and demand and to assure grid stability, like sodium ion batteries or redox flow batteries.

In the field of battery research we currently focus on the following activities:

- Fundamental studies on non-aqueous Na ion batteries. This research started with a BMBF funded project within the Sino-German Network on Electromobility.

- Impedance based studies on Li ion battery degradation with application potential for battery management systems. This research is pursued within the current BMBF project "NOVBATCON".

- In collaboration with the Physics of Energy conversion and storage groupof Prof. A. Bandarenka joint activities on aqueous Na ion batteries.