Current status and future perspectives of lithium metal batteries
Abstract
With the lithium-ion technology approaching its intrinsic limit with graphite-based anodes, Li metal is recently receiving renewed interest from the battery community as potential high capacity anode for next-generation rechargeable batteries. In this focus paper, we review the main advances in this field since the first attempts in the mid-1970s. Strategies for enabling reversible cycling and avoiding dendrite growth are thoroughly discussed, including specific applications in all-solid-state (inorganic and polymeric), Lithium-Sulfur (Li-S) and Lithium-O2 (air) batteries. A particular attention is paid to recent developments of these battery technologies and their current state with respect to the 2030 targets of the EU Integrated Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) Action 7.
- Publication:
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Journal of Power Sources
- Pub Date:
- December 2020
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2020.228803
- Bibcode:
- 2020JPS...48028803V
- Keywords:
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- Battery;
- Lithium metal;
- Lithium-sulfur;
- Lithium-air;
- All-solid-state