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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.
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Category

Academic literature review

Language

English

Author(s)

  • Alberto Varzi
  • Katharina Thanner
  • Roberto Scipioni
  • Daniele Di Lecce
  • Jusef Hassoun
  • Susanne Dörfler
  • Holger Altheus
  • Stefan Kaskel
  • Christian Prehal
  • Stefan A. Freunberger

Affiliation

  • SINTEF Industry / Sustainable Energy Technology
  • University of Ferrara
  • University College London
  • Switzerland
  • Germany
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • Austria
  • Graz University of Technology

Year

2020

Published in

Journal of Power Sources

ISSN

0378-7753

Volume

480

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