Laboratory of excellency for electrochemical energy storage

STORE-EX has been now running for 12 years and we have maintained our momentum in terms of governance (Scientific Council and College meetings…) and scientific production (192 peer-reviewed papers whose 15 are published in high impact journals in 2022). Asides from publications and joint patent with industry, 4 new patent applications were filed in 2022 (22 active patent families/40 filed since 2011). Researches on Na-ion technology, interfaces phenomena in various technologies, all-solid-state batteries, developing sensing and self-healing capabilities to design smart batteries are the current hot topics in which STORE-EX is moving forward in spite of a very fierce competition. Last, STORE-EX is then still at the forefront of academic and applied research with strong connections with 3 technology transfer centers and 16 industrial partners that are all members of the French Initiative on electrochemical storage systems (RS2E). Lastly, STORE-EX is a prominent partner of Battery 2030⁺ program and of PEPR “Batteries”. 

2022 is solely highlighted by 5 major events:

i) the granting of the 45.6 m€ - national program PEPR on batteries operating by ANR and both coordinated by Hélène Burlet from CEA and Patrice Simon from CNRS/Université Toulouse III (Deputy Director of RS2E)

ii) the granting of a 10 m€-program dedicated to train future collaborators covering the whole “battery” value chain (gigafactories, battery-material makers, battery recycler) that involves STORE-EX as expert member of batter technology (Fig. 1).   

iii) the on-going development of BIG-MAP and INSTABAT European projects relating respectively to the management of interfaces and making diagnosis of batteries using IR-based optical fibers sensors

iv) the on-going development of the “Task Force” internal project dedicated to all-solid state batteries

v) the on-going development of our spin-off TIAMAT aiming to achieve PoC solutions with 10 end-users operating in different sectors in view of commercialization.