News

Sodium Ion Battery Model now available in PyBaMM!

Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are emerging as a sustainable and cost-effective alternative to lithium-ion batteries. Now, with the integration of a physics-based SIB model into PyBaMM, researchers and developers have a new tool to accelerate SIB optimization and innovation. This blog post explores the history of SIBs, the intricacies of the new PyBaMM model, and the exciting possibilities it unlocks for the future of energy storage.

Ionworks Presents at International Battery Seminar

News

2024-03-12

Ionworks Presents at International Battery Seminar

Ionworks CEO Valentin Sulzer presents at the International Battery Seminar in Florida

Review

2023-12-14

Our 2023

As the year comes to an end, it is a good time to pause and reflect on the Ionworks journey so far. It has been a very special year for us: we incorporated in February and this first year has been full of learning, collaboration and growth.

Perspective

2023-11-09

Why is parameterisation so hard?

One of the main challenges in physics-based modelling of batteries, as discussed in our previous blog post, is parameterisation. Parameterisation requires a broad range of experiments to be run and the resulting data to be carefully analysed, which makes it an extremely time and resource intensive process. But why is that?

Physics-based models (4): looking forward

Tutorial

2023-10-04

Physics-based models (4): looking forward

In the past few blogposts we have seen what physics-based models for batteries are about. However, not everything is done and dusted in this area. The aim of this post is to discuss the current main challenges (or what we believe are the main challenges) for physics-based models.

Physics-based models (3): battery models, what’s your flavour?

Tutorial

2023-09-12

Physics-based models (3): battery models, what’s your flavour?

We learned in our previous blog post that physics-based battery models typically impose conservation of lithium and charge in both the electrode and the electrolyte, but we did not discuss specific models. The focus of this post is on two of the most popular models: the Doyle-Fuller-Newman (DFN) and the Single Particle Model (SPM).

Tutorial

2023-08-10

Physics-based models (2): batteries

In our last blog post, we introduced what physics-based models and discussed their strengths in a general context. Now, let's narrow our focus and explore how these models specifically apply to lithium-ion batteries.