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Battery technologies
Battery technologies are relevant for a wide range of different uses. Portable devices such as cell phones and laptops would be just as unthinkable without them as cordless tools or stationary power storage units, which are essential for achieving a fully renewable energy supply.
In Lower Saxony, these key technologies are the focus of research at the Battery LabFactory Braunschweig (BLB) and the Campus for Battery Safety Germany (bsd).
Battery LabFactory Braunschweig
The Battery LabFactory Braunschweig (BLB), a research center of the TU Braunschweig, focuses on the circular production of different battery generations, from current lithium-ion batteries to future solid-state batteries and lithium-sulfur batteries. The lab is based on a transdisciplinary research platform to develop production processes as well as diagnostic and simulation methods.
The research spectrum covers the entire work cycle from material and electrode production, cell production and system integration to the recycling and resynthesis of active materials to complete the resource cycle.
The BLB combines the expertise of nine institutes at TU Braunschweig, Clausthal University of Technology, Leibniz University Hannover, the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST and the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Braunschweig. This collaboration of a transdisciplinary consortium in a joint lab is unique.
Want to learn more about the Battery LabFactory Braunschweig?
For more information, please visit the BLB website.
Campus for Battery Safety Germany (bsd)
At the Campus for Battery Safety Germany (bsd), researchers are working on the safe use of batteries, from small half-cells to large battery systems. Through a unique combination of cross-system expertise from electrochemical process engineering, sensor technology and other engineering disciplines, the campus is able to tackle complex research problems with a comprehensive approach.
The Campus for Battery Safety Germany is a joint initiative of Clausthal University of Technology (the Clausthal Research Center for Environmental Technologies - CUTEC - and the Energy Storage Technologies Research Centre - EST - are involved), the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, HHI (Department of Fiber Optical Sensor Systems), Allianz für die Region GmbH, the district and city of Goslar, Wirtschaftsförderung Region Goslar GmbH & Co.KG and Wolfsburg AG.
The core of the equipment at the Campus is the Battery and Sensor Test Center, which covers an area of 1,500 square meters and can be used to carry out electrical, dynamic load tests up to 1000V/1200A, i.e. 1.2MW, up to the maximum range.
Want to learn more about the Campus for Battery Safety Germany (bsd)?
For more information, please visit the bsd website.
Lower Saxony Summer School Fuel Cells and Batteries
For information on the Lower Saxony Summer School Fuel Cells and Batteries, which examines current issues in fuel cell and battery research in detail and teaches the necessary basics of electrochemistry, thermodynamics, materials science and energy technology, please click here