Equipment and Research Infrastructure
Our research network has a wide range of scientific expertise, the latest technical equipment and a wide variety of analysis methods for researching and developing solid-state batteries.
As TUMint.Energy Research, we research the entire spectrum of solid-state battery development and thus aim to contribute to gaining deeper basic understanding of the physical and electrochemical processes on the one hand and to testing and further improving the neutralizability of new material systems and processes on the other.
Together with our industrial partners we can for example carry out battery tests on individual cells (pellets and pouch cells), material and cell analysis (including simulation-based long-term studies and tests on cycle stability based on different cell formats) or production process-based tests and evaluate them with our own expertise, as well as researching new high-performance and cost-efficient materials and processes.
Materials synthesis: wet/dry chemical synthesis methods, spark plasma sintering (SPS), electrospinning system, metal evaporator, pulsed laser deposition (PLD)
Cell design and cell assembly: Glovebox with inert gas atmosphere and cell assembling equipment (pellets, pouch cells), slurry mixer, film coater and other tools, as well as in-situ analysis tools
Structural analysis and imaging: electron spin resonance (EPR), mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP), molecular spectroscopy (IR, Raman), scanning electron microscopy (SEM/EDX), X-ray Diffraction (XRD), X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), Zwicki stress-strain measurements, rheometer
Electrochemical analysis and cell testing: electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), multi-channel cell tester, potentiostats, cyclic voltammetry (CV)
Production processes and upscaling: In collaboration with the TUM Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management (iwb) a prototype coating system and calendar .
