If from lab to prototype, the runway is getting smaller. For it to benefit en-masse, you need innovation that matters, at scale. The manufacturing challenge not many talk about With that, let's discuss FULL-MAP, which stands for FULLy integrated, autonomous & chemistry agnostic Materials Acceleration Platform for sustainable batteries! Here's the uncomfortable truth about battery innovation: most brilliant discoveries die in a factory somewhere. You can create the world's most amazing battery chemistry in a lab, but if you can't manufacture it reliably at scale, it might as well not exist. This is what researchers call the ‘valley of death’ - the brutal gap between we proved it works and we can make a million of them . FULL-MAP, running alongside and beyond BIG-MAP, tackles exactly this problem. Think of it this way: BIG-MAP is discovering what batteries could be. FULL-MAP is figuring out how to actually make them. The initiative broug...
The next few articles will give a bird’s‑eye view of what’s happening in Europe, China, and the USA in the battery technology arena. The goal is to connect the dots and show that the pace of battery innovation is real and accelerating. It’s worth remembering that before breakthroughs become mainstream or appear in keynotes, they often result from years of hard work by many people. My argument is that the gap (discovery, prototyping, and large‑scale adoption) is shrinking faster than ever. Which is why it’s important to at least think: what next? With that, let’s discuss BIG‑MAP, like Big Mac, yet stands for.... the Battery Interface Genome–Materials Acceleration Platform (BIG‑MAP) a mouth fall I know! This project, now redirected and extended, re‑imagined battery R&D by integrating artificial intelligence to radically accelerate materials discovery. The project united 34 partners from 15 countries, spanning academia, industry, and research labs, and became a found...