Trendsetting Ideas in Battery Research

The work done at MEET Battery Research Center covers the optimization of the proven, market-dominating lithium-ion technology, the further development of other materials, and promising new approaches such as solid-state batteries. What will mark out the battery of the future? High energy density, longer lifecycle, maximum safety, improved sustainability and the lowest possible costs – because only with these factors will the urgently needed turnaround in the energy and transport sectors be possible.

Our team has particular competence in the field of research into lithium-metal batteries, which currently represent one of the most promising options, but also one of the most challenging ones. In this field, the high level of scientific work combined with marked innovation capabilities has already led to numerous patents being granted.

Holistic, Applications-Oriented Approach to Research

Embedded in the scientific network at the University of Münster, MEET brings together a strong, interdisciplinary, international team of natural scientists and engineers. We combine, at a very high level, scientific experience and modern laboratories – all augmented by our comprehensive national and international collaborative network. In 2014, for example, we set up Helmholtz Institute Münster with our partners RWTH Aachen and Forschungszentrum Jülich.

Our team – with its outstanding, multiple award-winning competences in the fields of development and analytics – plays a leading role in research into battery materials. It is making a decisive contribution to sustainable batteries for the future – and not only with its basic research. With a focus on applications-orientation, our team also transfers the latest findings from its research to industrial applications.

Practice-Related and Solutions-Driven

Our work – practice-related and solutions-driven – is characterized by numerous projects and research collaborations with industry and SMEs. In 2019 the first spin-off from the Battery Research Center was set up: E-Lyte Innovations GmbH. In addition, MEET has made a decisive contribution to a lighthouse project being set up in Münster – the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Battery Cell Production FFB.