As in previous years, Battery LabFactory Braunschweig was well represented at the Advanced Battery Power/Kraftwerk Batterie 2025 conference. The entire spectrum of Braunschweig's battery and fuel cell research was presented at the new BLB+ stand. Many familiar and new faces came to find out about the research being conducted at BLB, and we were able to explore a few opportunities for collaboration.
As usual, the conference itself focused on materials research and (electro)chemistry, which provided an opportunity to look beyond the (engineering) horizon. And who knows: maybe one or other of the newly developed materials – such as the “Disordered Rock Salt (DRX)” cathode active materials, which Gerbrand Ceder from Berkeley Lab presented in his keynote – will soon make it to the production stage.
The Braunschweig scientists were very well represented with 19 posters and two lectures. The latter each dealt with the important topic of cost-efficient battery cell production in their own way: while Marco Ahuis provided insights into various routes for recycling production waste, Kashfia Mahin presented the calculation tool for the cost model of battery cell production developed in the ProZell competence cluster. There were a number of interested questions and suggestions for further development here in particular. Exciting discussions also took place at the participants' own and other people's posters, so it can be assumed that our participants not only presented their own project results, but also took away some ideas for their own research.