Advancing Structural Battery Composites: Robust Manufacturing for Enhanced and Consistent Multifunctional Performance

• Multifunctional materials offer a possibility to create lighter and more resource-efficient products and thereby improve energy efficiency. Structural battery composites are one type of such a multifunctional material with potential to offer massless energy storage for electric vehicles and aircraft. Although such materials have been demonstrated, their performance level and consistency must be improved. Also, the cell dimensions need to be increased. Here, we develop a robust manufacturing procedure and repeatedly manufacture structural battery composite cells with double the multifunctional performance and size compared to state-of-the-art structural battery cells. Furthermore, six structural battery cells are selected and laminated into a structural battery composite multicell demonstrator to showcase the technology. The multicell demonstrator performance is characterised for two different electrical configurations. The low variability in the multifunctional properties of the cells verifies the potential for upscaling offered by the proposed manufacture technique.

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Maskinteknik -- Produktionsteknik, arbetsvetenskap och ergonomi (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Mechanical Engineering -- Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics (hsv//eng)

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Maskinteknik -- Teknisk mekanik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Mechanical Engineering -- Applied Mechanics (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Kemi -- Materialkemi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Chemical Sciences -- Materials Chemistry (hsv//eng)

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Materialteknik -- Kompositmaterial och -teknik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Materials Engineering -- Composite Science and Engineering (hsv//eng)

Keyword

self-sustaining materials

resin-infusion

multifunctional materials

carbon fiber composites

biomimetics

lithium-ion batteries

Publication and Content Type

art (subject category)

ref (subject category)