Proposals are expected to cover all the following points:

• Develop or leverage the materials-specific models and digital tools for material and cell design to identify the best combinations of materials and speed up the cell optimisation process.
• Ensure high ionic conductivity (> 0.5mS/cm2) and stability of the solid electrolyte.
• Integrate high voltage cathode (> 4V) to reach the KPIs for mobility as listed in the Expected Outcomes section.
• Propose and evaluate interfaces and coating solutions especially to suppress dendrite growth and enable a stable solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) and cathode-electrolyte interphase (CEI).
• Optimise the cell design with respect to all the cell components to meet high energy density objectives.
• Anode current collectors and/or solid electrolyte capable of accommodating volume changes upon charge/discharge.
• Demonstrate the potential for scale up of materials, cells and sustainable industrial processing methods with cells reaching a capacity of several Ah, produced in a statistical meaningful number to demonstrate the process repeatability.
• Project publications should adhere to the guidelines for publication of research results, as laid out by the “Batteries Europe – Reporting Methodologies” report, subject to the need to maintain confidentiality for future commercial exploitation.

This topic implements the co-programmed European Partnership on Batteries (Batt4EU). As such, projects resulting from this topic will be expected to report on the results to the European Partnership on Batteries (Batt4EU).