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Modelling plating morphology in lithium-ion batteries for enhanced safety (MoreSafe)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-07-07
End date: 2024-07-06
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 206887.68
EU funding (EUR): 206887.68
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

EU will aim to have at least 30 million zero-emission vehicles by 2030, primarily powered by the current energy storage technology of choice - lithium-ion batteries. Despite remarkable achievements in developing control strategies over recent decades, many fundamental scientic issues underpinning the safety of these batteries remain elusive, due to a lack of control-oriented models for predicting the internal phenomena that can trigger internal short circuits and the consequent thermal runaway. In this proposal, we document a wholistic new physics-based modelling approach, which adequately incorporates a highly accurate description of battery electrochemistry as well as the accompanying subtle lithium plating phenomenon. It will allow reliable prediction of the occurrence of safety accidents subject to battery operational conditions and the seamless integration into a safety-guaranteed battery management system. As an MSCA-PF fellow, Dr. Yicun Huang will receive crucial training at the Chalmers University of Technology and engage in detailed battery modelling works which span the areas of computational materials and electrical engineering. The interplay between the two areas will spark an innovative and productive throughput, including 1) a multiphase electrochemical model under normal battery operations, 2) a high-fidelity materials model for the growth morphology of lithium plating, and 3) control-oriented models for battery safety assessment. The result of this project will include: a ground-breaking multiple-model framework enabling fast and accurate battery safety state prediction and analysis; a new interdisciplinary research product amalgamating materials modelling and control algorithms; outreach and dissemination to crucial target audiences; and a solid foundation for a safety-guaranteed battery management system intended to revolutionise electric vehicles.

Keywords: lithium ion batteries,battery safety,internal short circuits,lithium plating morphology,modelling and simulation
Enabling Laser Powder Bed Fusion for Large Scale Production of Multi-Material Components (GlobalAM)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: Industry
Destination: Climate neutral, Circular and Digitised Production
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: Photonics (co-programmed)
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Denmark,Czechia,Poland
Call: High-precision OR complex product manufacturing – potentially including the use of photonics (Made in Europe and Photonics Partnerships) (IA) (HORIZON-CL4-2023-TWIN-TRANSITION-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2026-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4930222.84
EU funding (EUR): 3981301.99
Participants: 8
Project status: SIGNED

While laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) inherently allows the production of complex geometries it isn’t yet introduced to mass markets due to prohibitive cycle times and uncompetitive product precision and quality. A hybrid production where complex components using LPBF’s flexibility are built on top of conventionally manufactured substrates at near-net-shape geometry can speed up the production process dramatically, especially if applied to small component volumes. global-AM aims to advance and combine existing state-of-the-art approaches, namely beam shaping, beam splitting, in-situ geometry correction, and process monitoring + control in an advanced machine concept that allows fixation of multiple substrates and laser beam positioning to produce components on a large scale. As a demonstrator, a cooling device for power electronics is chosen because it combines typical challenges in a prototypic way: complex metal geometries made from challenging materials such as copper are built on a ceramic-based substrate with a required precision in the low micrometer scale. If the technological barriers towards the demonstrator can be solved, global-AM will introduce – but not limit – LPBF to the multi-billion euro mass market of power electronics with highly attractive technological, economical, and environmental benefits To make this project successful, experts from renowned universities and world-leading companies in the disciplines of production technology, laser systems, process development/monitoring/control, and modeling, as well as powder production for advanced multi-material powders, join their efforts in close multi-national cooperation.

Keywords: ame additive manufacturing for electronics lpbf laser powder bed fusion photonics power electronics
Ways of imagining in children's lives with information texts (WONDRE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: The Soci al World and Its Interactions
Panel description: Sociology, social psychology, education  sciences , communication  studies
Countries involved: Czechia
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2023-STG, 2023)
Start date: 2024-09-01
End date: 2029-08-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499865.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499865.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

What makes a piece of information personally engaging, and what does it even mean when it is experienced as such? Adopting a child-centred view on an emergent form of literate life, I will investigate what imaginative experiences fuel the current boom of children’s nonfiction picturebooks (CNPs). How do these books make children imagine, that is, shift their perception of the sensory world and oneself? What niche may they come to occupy in children’s day-to-day dealings with information? Contemporary society’s ‘strong reader’ is a fiction lover; a child who indulges in formal learning materials is a ‘prolific student.’ Most readers aged 9-11 are neither but many occasionally devour fun facts, sometimes on highly specialist topics. CNPs have skyrocketed recently but, in contrast to fiction, we have no conceptual tools for grasping the imaginative and generally affective experiences nonfiction elicits. Engaging children, parents, authors, and other actors, WONDRE will redress the gap. I will lead a team of social science (literacy, media literacy, childhood) and humanities (literature) scholars, straddling both worlds myself and drawing on my further expertise in imagining and cognition. We will combine focus groups, interviews, surveys, text-image analyses, and Q studies, radically enhancing a method mix that I have begun developing in my prior work on children’s embodied experiences of fiction. This research showed a fiction bias in children’s construal of ‘being a reader.’ It hinted that nonfiction can prompt imaginings as compelling as fiction but also that children who prefer nonfiction may differ from fiction fans in how they sustain their imagining via other texts, props, activities. WONDRE will also yield a multilingual digital CNP on reading that will be co-created by participants and art students, aiming to empower diverse young readers and collectively unravel how information relates to imagining in the most vulnerable stages of literacy development.

Keywords: cross disciplinary reading studies literacy childhood reader response imagination and embodiment children s literature participatory research qualitative quantitative methods subjectivity
understanding Plural values, intersectionality, Leverage points, Attitudes, Norms, behaviour and social lEarning in Transformation for Biodiversity decision making (PLANET4B)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Theme: Bio-Environment
Destination: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Czechia,Hungary,Austria,Norway,Netherlands,Italy
Call: Understanding the role of behaviour, gender specifics, lifestyle, religious and cultural values, and addressing the role of enabling players (civil society, policy makers, financing and business leaders, retailers) in decision making (HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-01, 2022)
Start date: 2022-11-01
End date: 2025-10-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2954307.5
EU funding (EUR): 2954307.0
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

Alarming and continued loss of biodiversity now threatens both the biosphere and human life through failures in fundamental ecosystem service delivery. System-wide transformative changes are needed, including altering paradigms, behaviour and values (IPBES, 2019). To address this, PLANET4B will provide insight into the diverse perceptions of biodiversity and its communication to understand behaviours and motivations around biodiversity prioritisation. Existing multidisciplinary behaviour theories (e.g. framing, nudging, leverage points) that could be applied for biodiversity decision-making will be explored. Factors such as gender, religion, ethnicity, race, age, culture, disability will be reviewed to understand how they can potentially impact biodiversity perception and decision making. Founded on this knowledge, a transdisciplinary framework will be developed for changing attitudes and behaviour in a generative way, which actively embraces the transformative power of plural knowledges and intersectional diversity. Relevant behaviour change (e.g. experiential games), creative and deliberative (e.g. story-telling) methods will be adapted and applied in 11 place-based and sectoral cases from 8 countries, EU and at global level to explore the applicability of these theories and methods for triggering transformative change. Having monitored the impacts of these co-creative and participatory interventions in a range of key sectors, as well as socio-cultural and environmental settings, the findings will be synthesised and scaled up to EU and global levels to serve as inputs for EU and international policies (e.g. implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, post-2020 global biodiversity framework) and for businesses about how transformative change can be triggered. Target groups, sectors and institutions will be enabled with the gained knowledge and methods to initiate transformative change.

Keywords: biodiversity loss,behaviour change,intersectionality,leverage points,transformation pathways,social learning,equity,plural values,knowledge,perception,policy prioritization,creative methods
Topological aspects of Generalized Descriptive Set Theory (TopAspOfGDST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Mathematics
Countries involved: Hungary
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-04-01
End date: 2027-03-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 166903.92
EU funding (EUR): 166903.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

My project lies at the intersection of set-theoretic topology and generalized descriptive set theory (GDST) on uncountable cardinals. Since the 1950s, topology has extensively studied metric spaces and their generalizations, but as foundational questions were largely resolved, research shifted toward new areas. In contrast, GDST is a relatively recent field that has gained considerable interest over the past two decades. Both fields share a common interest in studying (subsets of) the generalized Baire space, but they typically use distinct tools and tackle different questions. Recently, efforts have been made to bridge these two areas, by introducing appropriate classes of "Polish-like" spaces in GDST, allowing the application of established topological tools in GDST while also opening new perspectives in topology. This synergy promises exciting opportunities for innovative research and greater insight in both fields and generates new applications of GDST beyond the well-established ones. However, these efforts have been scattered, with different classes of spaces being used, and they are still in their early stages, leaving much to be explored. My project aims to strengthen this connection by systematically studying and comparing the various approaches used to incorporate topology into GDST, to establish a unified topological foundation for GDST. In the process, I will also tackle several open questions in topology that have arisen from recent GDST applications. The project has two primary research goals. The first focuses on extending notions equivalent to metrizability to uncountable cardinals, including concepts like Nagata-Smirnov or Bing bases, uniform spaces, and regular bases derived from Arhangel'skii's Metrization Theorem. The second goal addresses completeness notions for topological spaces without a metric, such as (long) Choquet games, Čech-completeness, and the completeness of uniformities.

Keywords: generalized descriptive set theory,set theoretic topology,bing nagata smirnov metrization theorem,paracompactness,choquet games,uniform spaces
Synthesis of Fully Conjugated Porphyrin Nanobelts (FullyConjugatedPNs)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Chemistry
Countries involved: United Kingdom
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-06-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 276187.92
EU funding (EUR): 276187.92
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

π-Conjugated macrocycles are promising materials for applications in organic electronics and they are being studied to gain fundamental understanding of aromaticity. Cyclic porphyrin oligomers exhibit unique properties, such as ultrafast energy delocalization and quantum interference, and they serve as valuable models for studying aromaticity on the nanoscale. This project aims to synthesize the first fully π-conjugated porphyrin nanobelts (PNs). These PNs are expected to have stronger electronic delocalization than the single-strand porphyrin nanorings previously studied in Anderson's group. Two complementary work packages are proposed. In WP1, the target β,meso,β-triply-linked PNs will be synthesized using a cleavable covalent template. In WP2, curved building blocks will enable the synthesis of target β,β-fused PNs. The target PNs will be purified by recycling gel-permeation chromatography (GPC) and structurally characterized using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and single-crystal X-ray crystallography. The electronic and magnetic properties of the PNs will be elucidated using techniques such as NMR spectroscopy, UV-vis absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy, as well as Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) spectroscopy, backed up with quantum-chemical electronic structure calculations. This research will explore the electronic structures and photophysical properties of the fully conjugated NPs, and determine whether global (anti)aromaticity occurs in their neutral, oxidized or reduced states. This work will generate new insights into molecular structure-property relationships by studying unprecedented molecular nanostructures.

Keywords: porphyrin,nanobelts,aromaticity
Wide-ranging Probabilistic Physics-guided Machine Learning Approach to Break Down the Limits of Current Fatigue Predictive Tools for Metals (BREAKDOWN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Products and Processes Engineering
Panel description: Product and process design, chemical, civil, environmental, mechanical, vehicle engineering, energy processes and relevant computational methods
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2029-11-30
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499954.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499954.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

It appears paradoxical how today's frontier & high-impact research seeks for designing new materials to delay structural failures – especially fatigue – while the same effort is not seen concerning the way materials can be efficiently and safely used in real structural applications. BREAKDOWN aims to transform engineering products’ design methods by identifying and including a set of (sub)micro-scale material inhomogeneities characteristics in a novel probabilistic framework. The time has come to exploit modern experimental techniques to probe material properties at a small scale, which are scarcely involved in current fatigue characterisation schemes. To attain this very ambitious goal, the project will rely on a breakdown of different classes of inhomogeneities to advance the fundamental mechanical understanding of their contribution to fatigue, and then reunite them within an advanced Bayesian Physics-Guided Neural Network (B-PGNN) frame. Over the past three years, I assiduously worked to prove the feasibility of BREAKDOWN and demonstrate its superior capabilities. However, I have merely scratched the surface of what is potentially achievable with this approach, both in terms of knowledge advancement and real engineering applications. An extensive multimodal experimental characterisation campaign will be conducted on different material inhomogeneity states to separate and identify their individual influence on fatigue in a systematic and detailed way. Cutting-edge numerical & analytical models will be developed and exploited as the physics knowledge in the B-PGNN scheme to effectively tackle the small datasets issue when dealing with fatigue and to ensure soundness of results. The outstanding capabilities of the framework developed in BREAKDOWN will be confirmed through specific demonstrators. BREAKDOWN will excellently contribute towards the development of a much more sustainable design procedure with unprecedented social, economic and environmental benefits.

Keywords: fatigue,probabilistic,physics informed,machine learning,defects,residual stress,micromechanics,additive manufacturing,material processing,structural reliability,computational mechanics
Imaging the local flow of heat and phonons (Thermoscopy)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Starting grants
Action type: ERC actions
Panel: Condensed Matter Physics
Panel description: Structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics
Countries involved: France
Call: ERC STARTING GRANTS (ERC-2024-STG, 2024)
Start date: 2025-03-01
End date: 2030-02-28
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499990.0
EU funding (EUR): 1499990.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Efficient heat management is of paramount importance for modern-day electronics to ensure optimal performance and energy consumption. While Fourier's two-century-old macroscopic model for heat diffusion has served as a valuable tool, in particular for homogeneous solids at room temperature, it does not hold on short time and length scales. Notably, the model assumes that an abrupt and localized temperature perturbation propagates instantly everywhere in the rest of the material. This project aims to visualize the breakdown of the Fourier's law, paving the way for the development of a more physically satisfying model of heat propagation. My investigation will focus on a specific and very illustrative non-Fourier transport regime that has recently attracted considerable interest in the scientific community: the viscous hydrodynamic regime. To achieve this, I will design and construct a highly sensitive, and spatially resolved thermometer, capable of probing material surfaces with an exceptional resolution to resolve heat propagation at the nanoscale. This tool is a SQUID-on-tip (SOT). I will carefully scan materials known to exhibit this phenomenon at different scales and play with geometries to enhance or attenuate its effects. By comparing the temperature maps obtained in these regimes with predictions from recent theoretical propositions, I will directly test these models. This project will illuminate the underlying microscopic mechanisms responsible for heat transport, offering crucial insights into the intricate nature of heat propagation in materials at the nanoscale. THERMOSCOPY represents a groundbreaking initiative that will serve as a stepping stone towards the formulation of a comprehensive physical model for heat propagation in solids beyond the Fourier equation. This will impact the design of future more energy efficient materials.

Keywords: heat propagation,phonons,local imaging,squid
Assessing the optimal strategic and sustainable investment timing in emerging technologies: a prospective techno-sustainability assessment (TIME2EMERGE)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Economic Sciences
Countries involved: Netherlands
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 (HORIZON-MSCA-2024-PF-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-12-01
End date: 2027-11-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 217076.16
EU funding (EUR): 217076.16
Participants: 2
Project status: SIGNED

European society must urgently transition from fossil dependency to a self-sustained economy, with emerging sustainable technologies as a key foundation. However, many of these technologies are still in development, making investment timing uncertain. Current sustainability assessments treat emerging technologies as if they are ready for commercialization, despite their future implementation. This misalignment leads to uncertain and potentially inaccurate sustainability evaluations, risking misguided investments. Given the urgency of this transition, society has neither the time nor the resources to afford such failures. Hence, within my project ‘TIME2EMERGE’, I will develop an innovative techno-sustainability assessment framework to prospectively evaluate the strategic sustainable investment timing in emerging technologies that will be defined by the expected future technological readiness, economic feasibility, and environmental soundness at the commercialisation point of time. This approach will initiate a paradigm shift moving away from a present-based "What is the sustainability of the emerging technology?" towards a future-based approach "When is sustainability achieved?" My expertise in prospective sustainability assessment, Prof. Tony Kiss's specialization in dynamic process systems engineering, and access to the emerging technology ‘electrochemical CO2 reduction’ at TU-Delft will support the development of this innovative framework. This project will drive a crucial shift toward prospective techno-sustainability, enhancing the precision and predictability of evaluations across disciplines. It will prevent false investments and guide R&D efforts, accelerating the development of technologies that reduce environmental impact while fostering sustainable economic growth and job creation. Additionally, the project will deepen my expertise, positioning me as a key link between academia and industry, and strengthening my path toward an independent academic career.

Keywords: strategic and sustainable investment timing