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High capacity all-solid-state silicon-lithium-sulfide cells for energy storage applications (SiLiS)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Finland,Sweden
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021 (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01, 2021)
Start date: 2022-09-01
End date: 2024-08-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 215534.4
EU funding (EUR): 215534.4
Participants: 2
Project status: CLOSED

Rechargeable energy storage systems attract worldwide scientific and industrial interest due to their widespread applications. From the perspective of single customer, these batteries have been found useful in various portable devices and even in electric vehicles (EVs). Being practical in many circumstances, they have even more distinct role in reducing global warming and the emission of greenhouse gases. Together with the limited sources of fossil fuels, these aspects have driven the efforts to utilize more green sources of energy like wind and solar power, aiming at sustainable energy production. One critical factor on the way to zero-carbon footprint is to change the transportation to function solely with green electricity. The current EV industry depends heavily on lithium-ion batteries which face technological challenges like limited storage capacity and safety concerns related to the use of liquid electrolytes. Further, these batteries utilize materials that are far from being sustainable and environment friendly. To address these issues, the proposed SiLiS project will focus to develop new battery technology employing high-capacity silicon anode, lithium sulfide-based cathode, and stable and safe polymer based solid electrolyte. The project will support the development of cost-effective batteries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation by means of electric vehicles. The proposed all-solid-state silicon-sulfur cells (SSCs) is expected to have the gravimetric energy density of 750 Wh/kg, power density of 1500 W/kg and volumetric energy density of 1300 Wh/L. The novel high energy density battery will be of low cost, with a prolonged cycle life which is better than the current Li-ion battery. Thus, SiLiS will develop next generation rechargeable batteries by employing novel material synthesis routes and cell design that enable EVs to have long driving range with minimum safety concerns at a lower cost.

Keywords: energy storage,li ion battery,silicon anode,lithium sulfide cathode,solid polymer electrolyte,high energy density and power density,long cycle life,low cost rechargeable battery
Solar-driven synthesis of proteins and lipids via photoelectrochemistry of living organisms (SOLARSPOON)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Innovative Europe
Programme: The European Innovation Council (EIC)
Theme: EIC Pathfinder
Destination: Challenges
Action type: EIC actions
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Finland,Denmark,Germany
Call: Solar-to-X devices for the decentralized prosumption of renewable fuels, chemicals and materials as climate change mitigation pathway (HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01, 2024)
Start date: 2025-11-01
End date: 2029-10-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4300803.06
EU funding (EUR): 3999731.63
Participants: 5
Project status: SIGNED

Biohybrid systems offer unique energy-efficient routes to harness solar energy for the fixation of CO2 and nitrogen into valuable, complex molecules. This project will integrate living photosynthetic bacteria and food-producing autotrophic bacteria into stand-alone photoelectrochemical devices tailored for the direct production of proteins and lipids from sunlight, air and water. Cyanobacteria will supply electrons via light-driven water oxidation, organic dyes will provide these electrons with sufficient energy to generate substrates that would directly feed either a culture or a consortia of food producing microorganisms in the same device. The result will be the demonstration of the first direct conversion of CO2 and N2 from air to protein- or lipid-rich food materials using solar energy, with the aim to produce a prototype that can reach 1% solar-conversion efficiency or surpass present food production processes via agriculture. Our bioengineering efforts will focus on three key innovations: (i) overcoming complex electron transfer pathway barriers at the cell-electrode interface, aided by the coupling of electrode engineering with advanced modelling of the interface; (ii) expanding the range of Solar-to-X products to two essential food groups (proteins and lipids), enabled by the formation of novel microbial consortia on redox polymer films that mitigate their conflicting microenvironment needs; and iii) device engineering that synergizes the different outputs and needs of the bio-anode and cathode whilst also facilitating easy food-product collection. The delivery of our envisioned Solar-to-Food devices will open the door to re-imagining sustainable food production for off-grid locations, kitchens in future households and spaceships. Current food industries, such as our partner Solar Foods, would be an immediate benefactor. Our envisioned solar-to-lipids production process could be a stepping stone to fuels production lines of the future.

Keywords: biohybrid,photoelectrochemistry,proteins,lipids,microorganisms,solar,solar to x
BIOabsorbable Metallic ENDovascular Medical Devices (BIOMEND) Doctoral Network (BIOMEND)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: Doctoral Networks
Action type: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,Spain,Finland,Portugal,Netherlands
Call: MSCA Doctoral Networks 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01, 2022)
Start date: 2024-01-01
End date: 2027-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4814064.0
EU funding (EUR): 4039790.4
Participants: 19
Project status: SIGNED

BIOMEND is an Industrial Doctorate Network (DN) programme that will provide world-class interdisciplinary training to 15 high-achieving doctoral candidates (DCs) in the area of BIOabsorbable Metallic ENdovascular Medical Devices (BIOMEND). The consortium spans seven European countries and comprises of leading academic, clinical and industry experts to promote international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral aspects of DC skill development. The research objective of BIOMEND is to develop next-generation bioabsorbable metals for endovascular medical devices for both cardiovascular and peripheral applications. BIOMEND will achieve this through the development of ultra-fine grain Magnesium and Zinc alloys that exhibit high strength, excellent creep performance and high ductility, with enhanced corrosion properties delivered by multi-layer coating technologies. These novel Magnesium and Zinc metal alloys will be leveraged to develop, design and fabricate a range of innovate bioabsorbable metallic endovascular medical devices across both cardiovascular and peripheral applications. Pre-clinical evaluation will be conducted to demonstrate enhanced functional performance of bioabsorbable metal endovascular medical devices in both acute and long-term animal models. These medical devices have the potential to be technology disruptors in endovascular medicine and all DCs will be involved in establishing a clear roadmap for their commercialisation through exploitation activities. Apart from these technological breakthroughs, BIOMEND programme will make significant scientific impact by developing novel ultra-fine grain Mg & Zn alloys and establishing new structure-property-processing relationships describing their performance. The comprehensive skillset delivered by the programme will enhance career development and employability of DCs within the Medical Technology sector and promote their development into leading innovators in the European Medical Technology sector.

Keywords: medical devices,endovascular stents,bioabsorbable metals,magnesium alloys,zinc alloys
REVERSIBLE SOEC/SOEFC SYSTEM FOR A ZERO EMISSIONS NETWORK ENERGY SYSTEM (24_7 ZEN)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Public-private partnerships
Destination: Clean Hydrogen
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Partnership: CLEANH2 (JU-JTI)
Countries involved: Spain,Greece,Belgium,Switzerland,Italy,Netherlands
Call: Reversible SOC system development, operation and energy system (grid) integration (HORIZON-JTI-CLEANH2-2022-1, 2022)
Start date: 2023-02-01
End date: 2027-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5499822.5
EU funding (EUR): 5499822.5
Participants: 17
Project status: SIGNED

The goal of 24_7 ZEN is to design and build a high performing 33/100kW scale rSOC power balancing plant and demonstrate its compatibility with the electricity and gas grids. The multidisciplinary consortium behind this project has been spearheading innovations in the energy management and are pioneers on the rSOC systems development. Together, they cover every step of the value chain from enhanced materials on the cell level (POLITO, FORTH, IREC), fully operational rSOC system (SP_CH, SP_IT, OST) fully integrated, plug and play ecosystem for grid interconnection (INER, BOS, CERTH), renewable energy generation (EUNICE), transmission system operator (DESFA) and international quality assurance (KIWA). The ecosystems’ ability to optimize efficient routes of Power to Gas to Power, using H2 or NG as fuel and inject H2 into the grid, transition in <30 minutes and round trip efficiency of 45% will be demonstrated while ensuring compliance with standards and safety regulations. Finally, the consortium count on well-connected organizations in the European hydrogen, electricity and grid services sector (HSLU, CLUBE) that ensures the dissemination of the developed new business models and practices for renewable energy storage, including new concepts for the delivery of green hydrogen. This consortium will develop and validate an ecosystem that can be efficiently scaled and replicated to multi-MW scale installations. Further knowledge on how to improve the performance of rSOC (degradation rates of 0.4%/kh for 1000h, current densities of 1.5A/cm2 in both modes) and make them more cost competitive (by reducing CAPEX from 6000€/kW to 3500€/kW) will be generated. At the end of the project, new and viable scenarios to provide grid balancing and supply green hydrogen will be presented by means of a deep techno-economic analysis. By advancing rSOC towards commercial exploitation, the renewable hydrogen deployment required for a climate neutral Europe will be one step closer.

Keywords: reversible solid oxide systems,methanation,grid injection,power to gas,grid balance,gas injection,synthetic methane,energy storage,scalability,fuel cell,electrolyser,hydrogen
Lattice Boltzmann For Advanced SimulaTions (LBFAST)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Excellent Science
Programme: European Research Council (ERC)
Theme: European research council
Destination: Proof of concept grants
Action type: ERC actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call: ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS (ERC-2024-POC, 2024)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2026-05-31
Duration (months): 18.0
Total project cost (EUR): 150000.0
EU funding (EUR): 150000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

The intricate dynamics of fluid interfaces, disordered liquid-liquid emulsions, and soft microfluidic droplet crystals, collectively known as soft glass materials (SGM), pose challenges to non-equilibrium thermodynamics and hold profound implications for engineering applications such as combustion, materials design, and food processing. Advances in SGM modeling within the ERC COPMAT project offer opportunities for innovative mesoscale materials in fields like tissue engineering, photonics, and catalysis. The Lightweight Lattice Boltzmann (LB) scheme, which relies on hydrodynamic moments, models SGM by preventing droplet coalescence including near-contact interactions (NCI) due to surfactants. Integrated into LBcuda, an open-source software optimized for GPUs, it efficiently simulates complex flows while saving electrical energy, in line with the goals of the European Green Deal. The LBFAST project aims to optimize LBcuda's implementation for HPC clusters powered by GPUs, achieving processing rates of several hundred GLUPS while using only 50% of computational resources, resulting in a 75% reduction in energy costs compared to standard LB methods. This enhancement enables accelerated production rates for industrial applications and aligns with the criteria of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, benefiting users addressing energy and environmental challenges in the next exascale computing generation.

Keywords: computational fluid dynamics,lattice boltzmann method,high performance computing
Sustainable REACTOR and microreactor designS for boosting green and digital innovation (REACTORS 5.0)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area
Programme: Widening participation and spreading excellence
Theme: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Destination: Attracting and mobilising the best talents
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Panel: Information Science and Engineering
Countries involved: Portugal
Call: ERA Chairs (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-TALENTS-01, 2023)
Start date: 2025-02-01
End date: 2030-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2499988.62
EU funding (EUR): 2499988.62
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Reactor technologies are core to many chemical and biological processes, therefore enablers of defossilisation, digital empowering, and economic growth. E.g., new reactor designs are required for manufacturing of chemicals from solar light and advanced microreactor designs are key to meet needs in personalised medicine. The design of reactors and microreactors share fundamental concepts, such as mass and heat transfer and reaction kinetics, often referred to as ‘first principles’. The University of Minho (UMINHO) has built international reputation for innovative fundamental research in biomolecular and cellular processes, with multiple researchers ranked in the top 1% of most cited. By accessing a range of world-class analytical, microfabrication and supercomputing facilities and deploying machine learning and computational modelling driven by experimental ‘big data’ sets, REACTORS_5.0 will demonstrate and deliver a number of new sustainable reactor and microreactor concepts in full respect of first principles. These technologies will be disseminated and exploited to enable innovative green and digital devices and processes and foster economic growth, directly contributing to Sustainable Development Goals and setting EU as a global leader in the development of green and digital reactor/microreactor based innovations. The ERA Chair will bring expertise in reaction engineering and an international interdisciplinary network from non-widening countries to nurture at UMINHO a transformative research, training, and technology innovation programme that will boost Excellence and attract and mobilise outstanding talents. This will advance UMINHO’s long-term ambition of establishing a world-class Centre of Excellence and innovations based on “molecular-to-cellular-to-reactor” nexus, driving the development and implementation of transformative tools and devices able to generate global impact in three key areas of intervention of the institution: food, environment, and health.

Keywords: reactor design,innovation,micro reactors,enabling technologies,machine learning,computational fluid dynamics
demonstrating a High-energy and High-power hybrid battery storagE soLutIonS platform for multiple grid services (HiHELIOS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Theme: Energy
Destination: Cross-sectoral solutions for the climate transition
Action type: Innovation actions
Partnership: Batteries (co-programmed)
Countries involved: France,Norway,Belgium,Greece,Slovenia,Ethiopia
Call: Hybrid electric energy storage solutions for grid support and charging infrastructure (Batt4EU Partnership) (HORIZON-CL5-2023-D2-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-12-01
End date: 2028-05-31
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 6594194.5
EU funding (EUR): 5997359.13
Participants: 12
Project status: SIGNED

HiHELIOS aims to deliver a TRL 7 modular, scalable, circular-by-design and safe Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS) that combines High-Power storage capabilities of LFP battery or supercapacitors, with High-Energy storage capabilities of second-life NMC batteries. To achieve this, HiHELIOS will adapt the modular, flexible and scalable HESS architecture developed in the EU project SEABAT to grid applications and EV charging support. HiHELIOS aims to design the HESS based on the shelf battery modules and components, and repurposing EV 2nd life battery modules. Supported by digital models, HiHELIOS will custom design and manufacture a HESS for 4 use-cases of problem owners to solve a real-life hybrid energy storage challenge. In HiHELIOS, the use-cases altogether cover storage services for supporting grid-connected microgrids and islanded grids; renewable energy uptake in weak and weak islanded grids; and EV charging, EV and E-boat fast-charging infrastructures, as well as ancillary services. The HiHELIOS HESS contains an innovative BMS and physics-based and data-driven PMS, EMS and cloud platform (based in the RED and Battery passport principles) enabling multiple (fast) services. HiHELIOS immediately achieves impact, because the 4 HiHELIOS demonstrators will stay in-use at the use-case owners after the project, until their end of life. HiHELIOS develops a roadmap to TRL 9 together with main stakeholders in the energy sector, and creates fertile soil for market application with replication studies. HiHELIOS will bring long durartion storage (>12 hours) within reach, against storage costs of less than €0.05/kWh/cycle by 2030, with a projected cycling life of >5,000 cycles. Via BRIDGE , ETIP-SNET and CEN-CENELEC , the experience emerging from HiHELIOS be used as input to national and EU-level standardization processes. HiHELIOS brings together a consortium of 12 partners from 6 countries, of which 4 partners are SMEs and 3 partners are from widening coutries.

Keywords: hybrid energy storage 2nd life battery modular energy storage scalable energy storage hess nmc lfp supercapacitor long duration storage pms ems bms battery passport bridge batt4eu bepa
Angular momentum predictions for low-energy induced fission (AMPLIFI)

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: Physics
Countries involved: Croatia
Call: MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023 (HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01, 2023)
Start date: 2024-07-01
End date: 2026-06-30
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 146049.6
EU funding (EUR): 146049.6
Participants: 1
Project status: SIGNED

Nuclear fission, the splitting of an atomic nucleus into two or more fragments, plays an essential role in both applied and fundamental science. However, even 85 years after its discovery, it remains a challenging puzzle for nuclear theorists. A crucial piece of this puzzle is the angular momentum of fission fragments, a measure of fragments' rotation that has a substantial impact on the emission of neutrons and photons during the deexcitation process. Recent research on the subject has reignited a long-standing debate on several fundamental questions. One key problem involves establishing a comprehensive microscopic theory of angular momentum distributions for the full range of fragments' masses and charges. These distributions are a major input in the data evaluation process employed to generate the large nuclear data libraries used in fundamental science and nuclear technology. However, due to the lack of a comprehensive theory, those evaluations still rely on simplified and occasionally inaccurate phenomenological inputs. The principal aim of this project is to predict angular momentum distributions using state-of-the-art nuclear density functional theory. Combining symmetry-restoration techniques and the time-dependent generator coordinate method, we will compute angular momentum distributions in fragments for the neutron-induced fission of two crucial actinides, 239Pu and 235U. Subsequently, we will explore the impact of nuclear excitation on these distributions by extending the finite-temperature formalism to fission fragments. The resulting database, first of its kind, will encompass microscopic angular momentum distributions as functions of the incident neutron energy and the nuclear excitation energy. Finally, we will evaluate the influence of these distributions on predicted fission spectra, employing the Hauser-Feschbach simulator YAHFC, thus paving the way for fission modeling based on microscopic theory.

Keywords: nuclear theory,energy density functionals,density functional theory,nuclear fission,fission fragments,symmetry restoration,time dependent generator coordinate method,nuclear data evaluation
GOVSATCOM Extreme Events Crisis Management Service (GEXTRECS)

Framework: Horizon Europe — Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Programme: Digital, Industry and Space
Theme: EU Space
Destination: EU Space
Action type: Research and Innovation actions
Countries involved: Spain,Germany,Poland,Italy
Call: GOVSATCOM Service developments and demonstrations (HORIZON-EUSPA-2022-SPACE, 2022)
Start date: 2024-02-01
End date: 2026-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1499992.5
EU funding (EUR): 1499992.5
Participants: 9
Project status: SIGNED

Protecting citizens and freedoms is one of the four European Union priorities in its 2019-2024 strategic agenda, with a priority to increase the EU's resilience against both natural and man-made disasters. The EU’s autonomy and independence is essential to implement the common security policy, including the governmental communications. SATCOM represents the ideal communication means for covering large geographical areas or operations deployed in remote or isolated sites. The European Union Governmental Satellite Communications (EU GOVSATCOM) Programme aims at providing secure, guaranteed and cost-effective SATCOM services to EU governmental stakeholders, such as Member States (MS) and related security organisations and EU Agencies or institutions with special emphasis on civilians. Its concept relies on the aggregation of the SATCOM demand and the pooling & sharing of the SATCOM service supply. GEXTRECS will define and demonstrate an End-to-End GOVSATCOM Service supporting Crisis Management. GEXTRECS will: 1/ prototype the Dynamic Planner, in order to de-risk an important GOVSATCOM Ground segment element, in order to enable dynamic SATCOM resources allocation in the most optimal manner, making use of advance heuristics; 2/ integrate a Network Balancer, which will enable the required interoperability ensuring that secure communications are preserved when using different communications networks; 3/ illustrate GOVSATCOM synergies with other components of EU Space Programme. The GEXTRECS innovation will be demonstrated in two use cases (land and maritime) in real End-User environments, while exploiting synergies with other EU Space Programme components such as Copernicus and Galileo. Annual demonstrations will simulate exercises in land cross-border and multinational maritime use cases. GEXTRECS partners covers the full SATCOM added value chain with GMV, HISDESAT, TTCOMM and the End-Users (ISAR, CSIC) complemented by POLSA as hub of the ENTRUSTED Network Of Users.

Keywords: govsatcom,interoperability,optimal dynamic allocation services,crisis management