One Year In: ANGeLiC Consortium Reconvenes at UCL East
Twelve months after the ANGeLiC project began, its eleven partners returned to the same room for the first time in months, this time inside UCL East, London’s newest research campus, to take stock of a year spent developing next-generation lithium-sulfur battery technology for heavy-duty vehicles.
A year of progress, partner by partner
The consortium meeting, held on 30 June and 1 July 2026, opened with each partner presenting where their piece of the project stands. Across the day, updates covered work ranging from lithium-anode protection to cathode design, electrolyte development, and the operando measurement techniques used to track what happens inside a battery cell as it charges and discharges.
The project’s Industrial Advisory Board members, present for the discussion, raised pointed questions about scalability, pushing the consortium to think beyond lab-scale results toward what it would take to bring this technology closer to industrial application. A Q&A session with the project officer from CINEA rounded out the day’s internal discussion.
Inside the battery labs
The day closed with a tour of UCL’s battery research facilities. Inaugurated around a year and a half ago, the labs are among the newest of their kind, and the consortium got a firsthand look at just how well-equipped and modern the working environment is. For most attendees, it was a rare chance to see the setup behind the reports rather than just read about it.
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Opening the floor to guests
Day two shifted focus outward. Following the project’s General Assembly, two invited talks brought fresh perspectives into the room: Dr Heather Au (Imperial College London) spoke on carbon fibres for structural lithium-sulfur batteries, and Dr Alexander Kibler (UCL) presented on electrolyte engineering in Li-S systems. Both sessions ran into extended Q&A, with the discussion spilling well past the scheduled time.
Looking ahead
A year in, ANGeLiC remains in its early stages, but the meeting gave the consortium a clearer, shared sense of where the project stands and what comes next, including a set of deliverables due later this summer and continued coordination with sister projects TALISSMAN and HighMag under the same Horizon Europe call.
ANGeLiC thanks UCL and Imperial College London for hosting.