This roadmap presents the transformational research ideas proposed by “BATTERY 2030+,” the European large‐scale research initiative for future battery chemistries. A “chemistry‐neutral” roadmap to advance battery research, particularly at low technology readiness levels, is outlined, with a time horizon of more than ten years. The roadmap is centered around six themes: 1) accelerated materials discovery platform, 2) battery interface genome, with the integration of smart functionalities such as 3) sensing and 4) self‐healing processes. Beyond chemistry related aspects also include crosscutting research regarding 5) manufacturability and 6) recyclability. This roadmap should be seen as an enabling complement to the global battery roadmaps which focus on expected ultrahigh battery performance, especially for the future of transport. Batteries are used in many applications and are considered to be one technology necessary to reach the climate goals. Currently the market is dominated by lithium‐ion batteries, which perform well, but despite new generations coming in the near future, they will soon approach their performance limits. Without major breakthroughs, battery performance and production requirements will not be sufficient to enable the building of a climate‐neutral society. Through this “chemistry neutral” approach a generic toolbox transforming the way batteries are developed, designed and manufactured, will be created.

Pd nanoparticles are immobilized by a green procedure onto unconventional dual porosity titania monoliths. The material is used in catalytic continuous-flow hydrogenation reactions showing excellent efficiency, selectivity, and durability. C ontinuous-flow catalytic processes represent a convenient alternative to heterogeneous phase batch systems in terms of efficiency, safety, waste emission, purification, automation, space and energy consumption, 1−3 thus providing a considerable contribution to the sustainability of long-term production of chemical compounds, particularly fine-chemicals. 4,5 To this purpose, different types of microfluidic flow reactors have been developed so far. 6−10 Monolith-based reactors have attracted increasing interest in recent years 11 because of their significant advantages compared to conventional packed-bed systems, including better heat and mass transfer, lower pressure drop, narrow residence time distribution, which ultimately result in higher productivities. 12 Polymeric materials were the first to demonstrate the utility of monoliths in the catalytic fine-chemicals production under flow. 13−16 However, despite their unquestionable interest, polymer-based monoliths may present some drawbacks from an engineering point of view, such as volume and porosity changes with swelling, thermal, mechanical, and chemical stability, shrinking phenomena, back pressure evolution at high flow rate due to limited porosity, which adversely affect their performance as catalyst supports. 17−19 To avoid these problems different types of inorganic monoliths have been synthesized, including conventional ceramic monoliths obtained by extrusion, that are largely employed in conversion of raw materials, pollutant abatement, and automotive exhaust gas treatment. 20,21 Only two types of unconventional inorganic monolith materials were reported for continuous flow operations in fine chemical synthesis, and both based on silica. One was obtained by emulsion templating synthesis and featured a disordered macropores network for transesterification reactions; 22 the other one, showing a well-defined hierarchical porosity network of flow-through macropores (2−10 μm) and diffusive mesopores within the struts (2−20 nm), was obtained by a combination of spinodal decomposition and sol−gel transition, and it was used for diverse organic catalysis. 23 These latter materials can be particularly useful in the synthesis of fine chemicals, being able to address the need of both efficient processing (within small pores) and fast diffusion (by macropores). 24,25 Despite these favorable features, this type of monoliths have never been explored in highly selective transition-metal catalyzed reactions, for example, in hydrogenation reactions. Selective hydrogenation of hydrocarbons with multiple CC and/or CC bonds to achieve partial hydrogenation products is a highly desired and challenging process in the pharmaceutical, agrochemical, and petrochemical industries. 26,27 Particularly, the stereo-and chemo-selective hydrogen...

The preparation of porous hierarchical architectures that have structural features spanning from the nanometer to micrometer and even larger dimensions and that exhibit certain functionalities is one of the new challenging frontiers in materials chemistry. The sol-gel process is one of the most promising synthesis routes toward such materials because it not only offers the possibility to incorporate organic functions into the porous host but also offers the possibility to deliberately tailor the pore structure. In this Account, the opportunities given by the application of novel diol-modified silanes are discussed for the synthesis of hierarchically organized inorganic and also inorganic-organic porous monoliths.