PULSELiONs 20th OPEN ACCESS PUBLICATION

The article, titled “2024 roadmap for sustainable batteries”, has been published in Journal of Physics: Energy (J. Phys. Energy 6 (2024) 041502) and is available Open Access via this link.

A comprehensive roadmap towards sustainable battery technologies

This collaborative roadmap gathers insights from leading experts representing academia, industry, and research organizations worldwide. It offers a detailed and forward-looking analysis of the actions needed to achieve true battery sustainability — from the extraction of raw materials to recycling at end-of-life.

Key topics covered include:

• Defining and assessing sustainability through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
• Responsible sourcing and management of critical raw materials
• Development of new chemistries, such as sodium-ion and multivalent batteries
• Advances in sustainable electrolytes and green electrode manufacturing
• The role of digitalization, modelling, and digital twins in optimizing processes
• Circular recycling and re-manufacturing strategies

Together, these contributions create a holistic vision for how the European and global battery community can drive innovation while reducing environmental impact.

PULSELiON’s contribution

Researchers from CNRS (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, LRCS, RS2E) contributed to this publication as part of the PULSELiON project, with authors Franco M. Zanotto, Javier F. Troncoso, Diana Zapata Dominguez, Mohammed Alabdali, Utkarsh Vijay, and Alejandro A. Franco among the co-authors. Their work focuses on digitalization and modelling of sustainable battery manufacturing processes — a key pillar in enabling more efficient and eco-friendly production of next-generation batteries.

Download the paper here