21GRD01 Opmetbat

The Metrology Partnership will bring together the measurement science community and stakeholders to deliver on global challenges including health and climate, support the European Green Deal, and underpin innovation in industry through collaborative research.

Metrology, the science of measurement, is a building block for an industrialised and increasingly globalised and digital society: Reliable measurements are essential for innovation in industry, research, trade and regulation. New societal challenges and emerging technologies increase the need for accurate, precise, and trustworthy measurements and thus for novel measurement capabilities.

The Metrology Partnership aims to support accelerating the transition towards a green, climate neutral and digital Europe, as well as strengthening the resilience, competitiveness, and economic growth of the European industry.

European Partnerships are a key implementation tool of the European Commission’s Horizon Europe; an ambitious research and innovation programme, running from 2021 to 2027.

The European Partnership on Metrology is co-funded by the Member States and the European Union with an expected budget of over 650 million euro. The expected impact of the European Partnership on Metrology is manifold, as it will support a wide range of policies, commerce and advancement of key European challenges.

The Partnership builds on the progress achieved under the previous European Metrology Research Programmes, and aims to break new ground by contributing to the development of self-sustaining, coordinated metrology infrastructures, with the capacity to continue joint research and innovation after 2030. 

• Outcomes on  industrial and other user communities 

The uptake of the new know-how developed in the OpMetBat project will deliver a lasting impact of improving battery performance, durability and safety as fade and failure mechanisms become better understood. 

• Outcomes for the metrology and scientific communities  

The good practice guide developed will benefit the scientific community by improving reliability, repeatability/reproducibility and fidelity of operando measurements. The project will pioneer operando metrology for battery research at several European synchrotron radiation facilities and the transfer into laboratories to support industry and researchers.

The project aims to develop operando techniques and hybrid (multi-modal) instrumentation, supported by quantitative and validated ex situ analysis and electrochemical measurements methods, to enable beyond stateoftheart materials characterisation for high-capacity energy storage technologies.  

The specific objectives are:

1. To develop traceable chemical, physical and structural analysis methods for ex-situ characterisation of energy storage materials and components.

2. To establish a GoodBest Practice Guides for current and emerging in operando spectroscopy methods including X-ray spectroscopy and vibrational spectroscopy, validated by ex-situ analysis and round robin test.

3. To develop dynamic electrochemical approaches combined with in operando spectroscopy for the assessment of material structure and cell performances.

4. To develop novel in operando instrumentation and hybrid methodologies for multi-parameter spectro-electrochemical characterisation of materials and components for high-capacity energy storage.

5. To facilitate the take up of the data and measurement infrastructure developed in the project by the measurement supply chain, standards developing organisations and key end users.

The 21GRD01 OpMetBat project has received funding from the European Partmership on Metrology  Participating States and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.