Lithium-Free Batteries: Needs and Challenges | Energy & Fuels
Lithium-free metal batteries are currently emerging as a viable substitute for the existing Li-ion battery technology, especially for large-scale energy storage, ease of problems with lithium availability, high cost, and safety concerns.
Cobalt-free batteries could power cars of the future
2024年1月18日 · MIT researchers have now designed a battery material that could offer a more sustainable way to power electric cars. The new lithium-ion battery includes a cathode based on organic materials, instead of cobalt or nickel (another metal often used in lithium-ion batteries).
We rely heavily on lithium batteries – but there's a growing ... - BBC
2024年3月20日 · In Australia's Yarra Valley, new battery technology is helping power the country's residential buildings and commercial ventures – without using lithium. These batteries rely on sodium – an...
Zinc batteries that offer an alternative to lithium just got a big ...
2023年9月6日 · One of the leading companies offering alternatives to lithium batteries for the grid just got a nearly $400 million loan from the US Department of Energy. Eos Energy makes zinc-halide...
Rising Anode-Free Lithium-Sulfur batteries - ScienceDirect
2024年12月15日 · Download: Download high-res image (587KB) Download: Download full-size image Fig. 1. (a) Advantage of anode-free lithium-sulfur batteries (AFLSBs): Cell volume vs. energy density for a typical Li-ion battery (LIB), a Li-S battery with a thick Li metal anode (LSB), and an AFLSB with their theoretic reduction in volume as a stack battery compared to LIBs.
A nonflammable battery to power a safer, decarbonized future
2024年11月21日 · Although the batteries don’t quite reach the energy density of lithium-ion batteries, Varanasi says Alsym is first among alternative chemistries at the system-level. He says 20-foot containers of Alsym’s batteries can provide 1.7 megawatt hours of electricity. The batteries can also fast-charge over four hours and can be configured to ...
Enabling “lithium-free” manufacturing of pure lithium metal solid …
2020年10月15日 · Here we show the potential for “Li-free” battery manufacturing using the Li 7 La 3 Zr 2 O 12 (LLZO) electrolyte. We demonstrate that Li-metal anodes >20 μm can be electroplated onto a current...
This lithium-free battery startup just raised $78M in Series
2024年4月4日 · Boston-based Alsym Energy, which is developing a nonflammable rechargeable battery that’s cobalt and lithium-free, has announced a $78 million funding round. Tata Limited (a wholly owned...
Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production
2024年5月3日 · It officially commenced production of its rapid-charging, long-life lithium-free sodium batteries this week, bringing to market an intriguing new alternative in the energy storage game.
Hybrid Li-rich cathodes for anode-free lithium metal batteries
Anode-free lithium metal batteries (AFLMBs) are expected to achieve high energy density without Li anode. However, their capacities are fading quickly due to the lack of excessive Li resources from the anode side (N/P=0).