Battery-driven research at TU Graz

By Birgit Baustädter Batteries are a broad field of research. Energy storage systems of the future should be more powerful, more environmentally friendly, smaller and even safer - work is being done on this at TU Graz. Batteries are many things: cylindrical metal capsules with a plus sign at the top and a minus sign at the bottom, small black packs in our mobile phones, silver buttons in all possible sizes, invisibly integrated in our electric toothbrushes or flat and stacked up in a row in our e-vehicles. But primarily batteries are energy storage systems which are becoming increasingly important, especially in these times of e-mobility and the Internet of Things. After all, it's not just the devices that we know from our daily lives that need electricity. Energy supply is becoming increasingly important - in microchips, medical applications and sensor technology. Requirements are varied.