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Presentation of NTNU WP leader: The WP is led by Anders Hammer Strømman with support from Lorenzo Usai. Anders is a Professor with the Industrial Ecology Programme at NTNU. He has worked on life cycle assessment of energy and transport technologies and systems for more than 20yr. While he has worked across many sectors and … Continue reading "Focus on WP7 – Preparation of Market Entry within a Circular value chain Led by NTNU"

Presentation of CIDETEC CIDETEC is an organization for applied research that integrates three international reference institutes in the fields of Energy Storage, Surface Engineering and Nanomedicine. In the Energy Storage field, our activity covers the entire value chain from material chemistry to final application. We design and develop cells, modules and battery packs tailored to … Continue reading "Focus on WP5 – Cell Manufacturing Led by CIDETEC"

The eighth and last general assembly was held at CIDETEC on June, 21 and 22 2022 in San Sebastian. It was the fisrt meeting in face-to-face since the Covid-19 pandemic. First day, all WP leaders presented the Work Package progresses made for last 6 months. Second day, all partners present on site visited the CIDETEC … Continue reading "General Assembly meeting in San Sebastian (Spain)"

This public deliverable summarizes the contents of the workshop organized by CRF in April. In particular, this document: - Summarize the topic and the content of the presentations performed during the workshop; - Give a general overview of the general outcome of the conference. You may access it here

The SPIDER workshop will be held online on April 14th , 2022 (9AM – 1PM). Several partners of SPIDER project will present their activity with a focus on batteries. Free registration are possible here. The program is: 9:00-9:05 Welcome 9:05- 9:20 “Spider Project” – Cedric Haon (CEA) 9:25-9:55 “Influence of the ambient storage on NMC811-based Li-ion … Continue reading "Online SPIDER WORKSHOP"

The Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas (CERTH), founded in 2000, is one of the leading research centres in Greece and listed among the TOP-20 E.U. research institutions with the highest participation in competitive research grants. It is a legal entity governed by private law with non-profit status, supervised by the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation (GSRI) of the Greek Ministry of Development and Investments.

The Battery Innovation Days 2021 were held online from 23rd to 25th November, 2021. Some partners of the SPIDER consortium were presenters at this online event.

The 2nd SPIDER Review meeting was held online on September 21st, 2021.

The latest SPIDER General Assembly was held online on July 7th, 2021.

CEA is a French government-funded technological research organization with more than 15,000 employees. Its activities cover four main areas: (i) energy, (ii) defense & security, (iii) health & information technologies, and (iv) fundamental research.

The Politecnico di Milano University (POLIMI) was established in 1863 and has approximately 40,000 students and 1,400 professors as permanent staff in its seven campuses, which makes it the largest institution in Italy for Engineering, Architecture and Industrial Design.

Iratxe de Meatza from CIDETEC Energy Storage presented work carried out in SPIDER as part of the cathode electrode processing and manufacturing activities at the Swiss Battery Days 2021.

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is one of the leading universities in Germany and Europe (Shanghai ranking: 54), has approximately 42.700 students, wherein more than one third are female and about 30% are foreign students.

The Coordinator of SPIDER Cédric Haon (CEA) presented SPIDER at the 4th Edition of H2020 Road Transport Research European Conference, which was held online on November 30th, 2020 and December 1st, 2020.

The development of novel nonaqueous aprotic electrolytes within the SPIDER project intends to enable long cycle life Si-Gr-based lithium ion battery cells with significantly advanced safety. For this reason, high throughput screening (HTS) equipment, available at Helmholtz Institute Münster/Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), was employed to fully automatically formulate 50 electrolytes varying in composition (HTS System I, Figure 1) for each generation of prototype cells.

Application of Thin Lithium Foil for Direct Contact Prelithiation of Anodes within Lithium-Ion Battery Production.
The publication by Stumper et al. is available in the Procedia CIRP, Volume 93.

The SPIDER project was presented at the Si-DRIVE workshop on June 10th, 2020 by Iratxe de Meatza (Cidetec).
The first workshop organised by the European research project Si-DRIVE was held online on June 10th, 2020. It aimed at gathering speakers from H2020 research projects around the issue of sustainability in batteries.

The publication by Ehteshami et al. is available in the Journal of Power Sources, Volume 451.

This public deliverable describes the project’s policy concerning any shared data. It will serve to ensure that any shared data is findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable.    You may access it here

The second general assembly was held at FZJ (Forschungzentrum Jülich GmbH) on June, 12 and 13 2019 in Münster. On this occasion, the Spider consortium met the EC reviewer for the first time.

The kick-off meeting (KOM) was held on 12 – 13 February, 2019 at CEA Liten in Grenoble. The meeting was attended by the 14 partners including leading universities and research institutes in the battery field and key companies central to the emerging European industrial value chain for EV batteries.