The laboratory will be able to accelerate the process of analyzing experimental data, to identify the most suitable innovative, renewable materials and technological solutions for application in the energy field. It will consist of four fundamental components: a computational infrastructure (artificial intelligence and supercalculus) based on supercomputer of ENEA I GROW6 and three experimental infrastructures dedicated to car's battery performance, electrolyzers for the production of green hydrogen e PV, three central thematic areas in the energy transition process of our country.
To create this advanced IT architecture, ENEA will collaborate with the Cnr, the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and RSE, which will provide laboratories and experimental and computational infrastructures distributed throughout the national territory.
In the case of batteries, the lines of activity will concern new materials for electrodes (cathode and anode) and for electrolytes. The goal is to increase energy density, improve safety, reduce cost, and lengthen the cycle and life span of batteries. The researchers will also develop inks for the production of electrodes by gravure printing and a sustainable recovery process of materials from end-of-life batteries.
As far as electrolysers are concerned, the project will take into consideration both low temperature (<100°C) and high temperature (600-900°C) materials, while in the case of photovoltaics, the IEMAP laboratory will focus on developing innovative thin-film perovskite solar cells, sustainable methodologies and techniques for recovering materials from end-of-life photovoltaic panels, but also hybrid and integrated photovoltaic-storage systems for managing the intermittence of the solar source.
The laboratory will be part of the new National Research Center in High Performance Computing, Big Data and Quantum Computing, proposed by INFN, which brings together over fifty members from the world of scientific research and Italian industry.
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