Advanced materials that are increasingly sustainable, high-performance, safe and low-cost for a new generation of green batteries: this is what Orangees (Organics for green electrochemical energy storage) intends to develop, a 4 million euro project, which involves an all-Italian partnership.
This was announced by Enea, which is part of the project together with the National Research Council (leader), the national inter-university consortium for the science and technology of materials, the Italian Institute of Technology (Iit), Research on the Energy System (RSE) and StandexInternational.
The research activities, explains Enea in the latest issue of the weekly magazine Eneainform@, "are aimed at the study of new materials, both hybrid (organic/inorganic) and purely organic obtained from waste from the agri-food industry (casein, whey, keratin, fig India ecellulose)".
The objective of the project is to "validate the new materials both for electrochemical performance and to increase their environmental sustainability, increasingly decreasing the inorganic component in these storage systems, such as lithium and cobalt, metals that fall within the EU list of 34 critical raw materials. Specifically, Enea will deal with the selection of natural waste and by-products, verifying their use as raw materials to produce green membranes and electrodes".
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