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Technical review outlines challenges for both batteries and fuel cells as basis for electric vehicles

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This will be followed by an assessment of the perceived technological barriers and the potential energy density gains for so-called post-LiBs, namely lithium-oxygen and lithium-sulfur batteries. On the Li-sulfur side, it is difficult to achieve the expected gravimetric energy density from a lithium sulfur battery-system.

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RIKEN team develops high-performance lithium-iodine battery system with higher energy density than conventional Li-ion

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Accordingly, new battery systems using new chemistries and system configurations are needed, which are capable of achieving higher energy density than the current ones.The alternative to make a less problematic storage system [than lithium-sulfur or lithium-O 2 ] is aqueous lithium batteries.

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Sulfur-rich organic cathode material for high-performance Li-S batteries

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Researchers at Beihang University in Beijing have developed a linear molecule sulfur-rich organic material as sulfur cathode for a lithium-sulfur battery. The tetramethylthiuram disulfide-sulfur (TMTD-S) cathode material delivers an initial capacity of 685?mAh 1 at 0.2C (1?C?=?1061?mAh 1 after 200 cycles.

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New hybrid carbon/sulfur cathode material enables high-energy, high-power Li-sulfur battery; “matching the level of engine-driven systems”

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Researchers at Tsinghua University have combined two types of carbon materials to create a new composite sulfur cathode material for a high-energy and high-power lithium-sulfur battery. Carbon atoms have six electrons: two are in 1s states, and four are valence electrons, occupying the 2s and 2p orbitals.