Research

  • About

    With strong interdisciplinary research strengths, the center focuses on the frontier scientific problems of large-scale energy storage systems and reliability, leads the development of theoretical and technological systems, solves real problems in practical energy storage systems, and produces academic achievements with important international influence. To meet the extremely demanding requirements of large-scale battery energy storage reliability in long-time and complex service scenarios such as energy storage power plants, electric aircraft and electric ships, the center takes the lead in building cross-disciplinary technology systems and methodologies from the multi-dimensional aspects of materials, battery cells and systems to support the long-life and safe operation of future large-scale battery energy storage systems.

    Reliable materials

    Such as: Long-cycle battery material generation and optimization

    Reliable manufacturing

    Such as: extreme manufacturing technology for highly dynamic consistency of batteries

    Reliable use

    e.g. heat/electrical management, intelligent safety operation control technology


  • Director

    • Kai Wu
      Co-Director Professor, Power Battery Research
    • Chengbin Ma
      Director Professor, Energy Management

  • Key Members

    • Mian Li
      Professor，Optimization & Control
    • Hua Bao
      Professor，Heat Transfer
    • Yongxing Shen
      Associate Professor，Fracture Mechanics
    • Youyi Bi
      Assistant Professor，Data Analytics
    • Dezhi Zhou
      Assistant Professor，Data Analytics
    • Yifei Zhu
      Assistant Professor，Cloud & Edge Computing

  • Research Directions

    Failure mechanisms and causes of large-scale energy storage systems
    In view of the complex multi-dimensional (material, thermal, electrical, etc.) dynamic and interactive relationships among tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of battery cells in the system, we will determine the failure mechanisms and main causes of large-scale battery energy storage systems from the perspective of multi-scale multi-physical field modeling and analysis, and provide theoretical basis for subsequent improvements in material and manufacturing.
    Advanced Reliability Theory and Test Methods
    In view of the unique mechanism and dynamic characteristics of electrochemical energy storage devices and the complex multi-physical field interaction and topology in large-scale battery energy storage systems, we will expand the application of classical reliability theories and testing methods in large-scale electrochemical energy storage systems, and develop a technical system with both theoretical advancement and engineering practice value by integrating mechanism and data means.
    Digital operation and maintenance, intelligent perception and fault diagnosis, life evaluation
    With a view to the intelligent monitoring, inspection, control and safe operation of various types of large-scale battery energy storage systems distributed over a wide space, we will realize online fault diagnosis and safety warning, and build an agile and intelligent high-reliability safe operation and control technology system based on cutting-edge intelligent and digital technologies, integrated reliability theory and failure mechanism analysis, cloud-edge collaboration of massive multi-source data, digital twins, etc.


  • Sponsors

    National Development and Reform Commission of the People's Republic of China, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai, and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL).