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The project "Sodium-Ion-Battery Deutschland-Forschung - SIB:DE FORSCHUNG", funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), aims to evaluate the suitability of sodium-ion battery technology (SIB) for the European energy and mobility transition to speed up industrial implementation. To this end, 21 national partners from science and industry are pooling their expertise from battery material development to the production of large-format cells to enable the fast transfer of research results into practical applications.

The project consortium of the "SIB:DE FORSCHUNG" project consists of seven industrial partners and 14 academic partners, as well as an extended circle of currently 42 associated partners from science and industry. BayBatt is represented by the Chair of Inorganic Active Materials for Electrochemical Energy Storage (Prof. Dr. Matteo Bianchini). This makes it the largest consortium in Germany on this topic. BASF is coordinating the overall project. Only by closely interlinking expertise from science and industry a rapid transfer of research results to industrial scale-up can be achieved as well as a fast market penetration of sodium-ion technology.

While the academic partners are working on the material science and cell technology topics, the industrial partners are focusing on scaling up the materials and industry-oriented cell formats. At the end of the project, the work will result in a recommendation on the feasibility of an industrializable process. These results will then act as a direct interface to the production topics and industrial formats that are targeted in the planned follow-up project on production research "SIB:DE ENTWICKLUNG". The main goal of the overall project is to establish a comprehensive ecosystem for the production of sodium-ion batteries.

With its work, the entire "SIB:DE initiative" represents a significant step towards sustainable and independent battery development in Europe and contributes to overcome the challenges of electromobility and renewable energies.

Read the complete press release on the website of Fraunhofer FFB.