The MATICS project [MATériaux Innovants pour des Cellules de Batteries Sécurisées] is supported and funded as part of the France 2030 national battery strategy, operated by BPI France through the “Innovative solutions and technologies for batteries” call for projects.
MATICS has also been accredited by two competitiveness clusters in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region: Axelera and Tenerrdis.
The aim of the project is to develop new designs for electric battery modules with pouch cells incorporating innovative inter-cell materials to slow down, or even prevent, the propagation of any thermal runaway within the module, in order to guarantee greater safety.
Led at LEMTA by Nicolas Blet, the ‘Heat Management’ team will provide its expertise in heat transfer and will be responsible for both the thermal characterisation of the new materials developed, and the thermal (or even thermomechanical) system modelling of the battery module in normal and degraded regimes.
LEMTA’s complementary objective will also be to propose tools for the early detection of thermal runaway (virtual sensors).
MATICS brings together a consortium of 5 partners: Saint-Gobain Recherche (leader, developer and manufacturer of materials), Verkor (manufacturer of electric batteries), Enersens (innovative company designing high-performance insulation materials based on silica aerogel), Ineris (public institute for the industrial environment and risks) and LEMTA.
Project duration: 36 months > 2023-2026
Total funding: 3.8 m€, including 340k€ for LEMTA
