Battery degradation affects performance, cost, safety, and sustainability while systems integration ensures batteries work efficiently, safely, and at scale with other technologies.

Batteries degrade on the shelf and during use through several complex and interconnected ageing mechanisms on materials, cell, and systems level. We will focus on:

• understanding these factors for contemporary and emerging battery technologies through experiments and modeling
• developing and integrating new methodologies to track and estimate the changes of most relevance for the performance, as key aspects of correct materials choices and battery lifetime extension.