With a research grant from the NWO program on Materials for Sustainability, computational scientist Süleyman Er and his research team will develop new battery materials for stationary electrical energy storage.

The team’s approach is certainly innovative: starting from a database of known stable food coloring compounds, they will generate a library of large number of candidate compounds, and perform robust high-throughput calculations on these new materials to investigate their key properties for redox flow batteries and simultaneously select the best candidates. That way, together with the industrial partner Green Energy Storage (Italy), they will lab-test only the most favorable functional materials, at a much shorter timescale and reduced cost when compared to conventional methods.

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