The project is aimed at researching and identifying patterns in the processes of obtaining new carbon and composite electrode materials produced from waste processing of renewable plant materials, agricultural and food industry waste for modern environmentally friendly and resource-saving energy. The scientific novelty of the project lies in solving the problem of creating demanded materials for modern distributed energy systems. It is important that these materials will be obtained from plant biomass processing wastes (oil, juice, sugar production, brewing, winemaking, production of furan derivatives, biopolymers, etc.), which solves the problem of recycling large-tonnage environmentally unsafe waste. Such an integrated approach will make a significant contribution to the development of modern environmentally friendly, including hydrogen, and resource-saving energy in the Russian Federation.
As a result of the project, new fundamental knowledge will be obtained about the patterns of transformation of plant biomass and waste from its processing, which will serve as a scientific basis for the development of environmentally friendly low-waste technologies for creating modern electrochemical energy conversion and storage systems with a low carbon footprint, such as solid polymer fuel cells (SFCs) and electrolyzers, supercapacitors (SC), metal-ion batteries (MIA) and redox flow batteries (PROB). Scientific foundations will be developed for the creation of new generation electrode materials for the energy industry based on native and modified with heteroatoms, nanoparticles metals, oxides/hydroxides of transition metals CM obtained as a result of thermochemical conversion of food industry waste, waste processing of plant biomass into furan derivatives and carboxylic acids (humins ). A comprehensive study of the physicochemical and electrochemical properties of all types of composites obtained in model and actually working energy conversion and storage systems will be carried out, on the basis of which the main patterns will be established that link the type of carbon raw material, the method of obtaining CM, the modification method, and the functional characteristics of the resulting material. World-class results will be obtained in the work, highly qualified specialists will be trained, and special attention will be paid to attracting and securing young scientists in specialized specialties in the scientific community.