To achieve a broader public acceptance for electric vehicles based on lithium-ion battery (LIB) technology, long driving ranges, low cost, and high safety are needed. A promising pathway to address these key parameters lies in the further improvement of Ni-rich cathode materials LIB cells. Despite higher achieved capacities thus energy densities, there major drawbacks terms capacity retention t...

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 ...

Construction of desired nanoarchitectures with both high power and high rate ability is regarded as a significant step torward industrial applications of rechargeable lithium ion batteries (LIBs) with improved performance. It is well-known that the hard-template route towards nanoarchitectures requires further simplifying the synthetic procedure and lowering the cost of the template itself. Whe...

• Development of a 2-step LCA framework for LIB repurposing in circular economy. Application to case study on real-world battery storage project at industrial scale. Integrating energy flow modelling enables assessment different use cases. Climate change benefits multi-use are 10-22% lower than single-use Results compared alternative business model options LIB. In their efforts implement econom...

Electrolytes are characterized by their ionic conductivity (σ(i)). It is desirable that overall σ(i) results from the dominant contribution of the ions of interest (e.g. Li(+) in lithium ion batteries or LIB). However, high values of cationic transference number (t+) achieved by solid or gel electrolytes have resulted in low σ(i) leading to inferior cell performances. Here we present an organog...

An increasing number of production plants for lithium‐ion batteries (LIB) are being built every year to meet the global battery demand electric vehicles, mobile devices, and stationary energy storage systems. Currently, state‐of‐the‐art convective drying process employed during solvent‐based electrode is a key reason high electrical consumption LIB also requires long dryer sections with huge in...

Future energy demand is an important issue that requires consideration. Lithiumion batteries (LIB) are one of the most popular types of rechargeable battery for portable electronic devices, such as mobile phones, cameras, and laptop computers, and have led to other applications being commercialized. Distributed power generation using renewable energy sources, such as solar photovoltaic (PV), ca...

Rechargeable lithium ion batteries are important energy storage devices; however, the specific energy of existing lithium ion batteries is still insufficient for many applications due to the limited specific charge capacity of the electrode materials. The recent development of sulfur/mesoporous carbon nanocomposite cathodes represents a particularly exciting advance, but in full battery cells, ...

Mesophase soft carbon (MSC) and mesophase graphite (SMG), for use in comparative studies of high C-rate Lithium Ion Battery (LIB) anodes, were made by heating mesocarbon microbeads (MCMB) at 1300 °C and 3000 °C; respectively. The crystalline structures and morphologies of the MSC, SMG, and commercial hard carbon (HC) were investigated by X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, scan...