A rollable and all-solid-state textile lithium battery based on fabric matrix and polymer electrolyte that allows flexibility and fast-charging capability is reported. When immerged into poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) nano-emulsion inks, an insulating fabric is converted into a conductive battery electrode for a fully solid state lithium battery with the highest specific energy capaci...

The lithium-ion battery is a viable power source for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and, more recently, electric vehicles (EVs). Its performance, especially in terms of state of charge (SOC), plays a significant role in the energy management of these vehicles. The extended Kalman filter (EKF) is widely used to estimate online SOC as an efficient estimation algorithm. However, conventional EKF ...

Large-scale energy storage systems are of critical importance for electric grids, especially with the rapid increasing deployment of intermittent renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. New cost-effective systems that can deliver high energy density and efficiency for such storage often involve the flow of redox molecules and particles. Enhancing the mass and electron transport is crit...

The cyclic stress in lithium-ion battery electrodes induced by repeated charge and discharge cycles causes electrode degradation and fracture, resulting in reduced battery performance and lifetime. To investigate electrode mechanics as a function of electrochemical cycling, we utilize digital image correlation (DIC) to measure the strains that develop in lithium-ion battery electrodes during li...

Based on a low cost multi-switched inductor balancing circuit (MSIBC), a fuzzy logic (FL) controller is proposed to improve the balancing performances of lithium-ion battery packs instead of an existing proportional-integral (PI) controller. In the proposed FL controller, a cell’s open circuit voltages (OCVs) and their differences in the pack are used as the inputs, and the output of the FL con...

Accurate state of charge (SOC) estimation is of great significance for a lithium-ion battery to ensure its safe operation and to prevent it from over-charging or over-discharging. However, it is difficult to get an accurate value of SOC since it is an inner sate of a battery cell, which cannot be directly measured. This paper presents an Adaptive Cubature Kalman filter (ACKF)-based SOC estimati...

Nitrogen-doped flexible carbon foam was used to fabricate a lithium sulfur battery. The stability and rate performance of the battery were evaluated. The battery with carbon foam calcined at 800 °C displayed superior stability compared with other tested batteries. Battery performance was closely related to the foam structure and component. However, good rate performance was achieved with the fo...

Sodium ion batteries are attractive due to the abundance of sodium in the earth's crust. Sodium ion is larger than the lithium ion; hence, transforming the understanding emanated from lithium ion battery research into sodium ion battery investigations is not straightforward. However, a successful lithium battery electrode exhibited impressive performance while it was being used as an electrode ...

A novel approach for bulk synthesis of lithium-intercalated graphene sheets through the reduction of exfoliated graphene oxide in liquid ammonia and lithium metal is reported. It is demonstrated here that as-synthesized lithiated graphite oxide sheets (Li-RGO) can be directly used as an electrode material in lithium batteries. The electrochemical studies on Li-RGO electrodes show a significant ...

Loss of lithium in the initial cycles appreciably reduces the energy density of lithium-ion batteries. Anode prelithiation is a common approach to address the problem, although it faces the issues of high chemical reactivity and instability in ambient and battery processing conditions. Here we report a facile cathode prelithiation method that o ers high prelithiation e cacy and good compatibili...