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DECEMBER 21, 2009

Argonne National Laboratory, which has contributed heavily to the research and development of Li-ion battery technology, is now pursuing research into Lithium-air batteries. Li-air batteries use a catalytic air cathode that converts oxygen to lithium peroxide; an electrolyte; and a lithium anode.

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JUNE 24, 2009

General schematic of a lithium-air battery. The team plans to explore rechargeable Lithium-Air systems, which could offer 10 times the energy capacity of lithium-ion systems. Original lithium-air batteries—aqueous batteries, or with an aqueous electrolyte/air interface—were primary cells—i.e.,

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APRIL 17, 2023

Resources Chunbo Zhang et al. Zhang et al. Monotonic growth in global demand for critical metals to 2050 is the most prevalent trend. It’s mainly driven by the electric vehicle market penetration and battery technology development. The research was supported by the National Science Foundation.

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MARCH 26, 2021

The new application was found somewhat serendipitously, after it had initially been developed a few years ago by MIT professor Yang Shao-Horn, Johnson, and others, in a collaborative venture aimed at lithium-air battery development. There’s still really nothing that allows a good rechargeable lithium-air battery.

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JUNE 15, 2012

A team from Hanyang University (Korea) and University of Rome Sapienza (Italy) have demonstrated a lithium–air battery capable of operating over many cycles with capacity and rate values as high as 5,000 mAh g carbon ?1 1 and 3 A g carbon ?1 1 , respectively. Nature Chemistry doi: 10.1038/nchem.1376 1376 10.1038/nchem.1376.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2011

A team from Japan’s AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) reports on the development of a “lithium–air capacitor–battery based on a hybrid electrolyte” in a paper in the RSC journal Energy & Environmental Science. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). —Wang et al. Energy Environ.

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APRIL 27, 2017

Lithium-air batteries are looked to by many as a very high-energy density next-generation energy storage solution for electric vehicles. One reaction that hasn’t been fully explained is how oxygen blows bubbles inside a lithium-air battery when it discharges. The paper is published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.

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JULY 25, 2011

In earlier lithium-air battery research that Shao-Horn and her students reported last year, they demonstrated that carbon particles could be used to make efficient electrodes for lithium-air batteries. ” Resources. Source: Mitchell et al. Click to enlarge. A team at MIT, led by Carl V. Mitchell, Betar M.

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MARCH 11, 2011

Scientists at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan have made an electrode for a lithium-air battery using a pencil. Haoshen Zhou and Yonggang Wang designed a battery in which the lithium is encapsulated by an organic electrolyte topped with a ceramic protection layer. Energy Environ.

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MARCH 24, 2015

In its most recent US patent application, published on 12 February 2015 and filed on 6 August 2013, Quantumscape outlined a solid-state Lithium-air battery cell using a garnet electrolyte material. US Patent Applications Nº 20150044581: Solid State Lithium-Air Based Battery Cell. Earlier post.). Batteries'

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NOVEMBER 26, 2011

Although lithium-air batteries—with high theoretical specific energies of up to ? Yifei Mo, Shyue Ping Ong, and Gerbrand Ceder (2011) First-principles study of the oxygen evolution reaction of lithium peroxide in the lithium-air battery. Physical Review B. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.205446. 84.205446.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Researchers at startup Liox Power, a California-based company developing rechargeable Li-air batteries, have demonstrated for the first time the operation of a lithium-air battery with a Li anode in a straight-chain alkyl amide electrolyte solvent (N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMA)/lithium nitrate (LiNO 3 )).

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MAY 4, 2011

Andrews in the UK report on the use of activated Lithium-metal-oxides as catalytic electrodes for high-capacity lithium-air batteries in the journal Electrochemical Solid-State Letters. Argonne began ramping up its efforts on Li-air batteries in 2009. Resources. Earlier post.). —Trahey et al. Trahey, C.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Processes for sustainable energy production must be environmentally benign, reduce greenhouse gas production, and utilize renewable resources. Advanced systems such as lithium-air, sodium-ion, as well as lithium-ion electrochemical energy storage are appropriate.

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

A study led by researchers from Argonne National Laboratory reinforced that electrolyte solvent stability plays a key role in the performance of Lithium-air batteries, and that making advances in new electrolytes will be a key factor in reducing the large overpotential and improving reversibility of Li-air batteries.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

The elimination of the lithium metal anode addresses one of the major issues affecting the development of the lithium-air battery: the safety hazard of the anode. “ The reaction sequence is complex, proceeding via a series of steps involving an intermediate O 2 ?• 1 and 3 A g carbon ?1 1 , respectively. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 26, 2013

A new study by a team at MIT led by Dr. Yang Shao-Horn and Dr. Carl Thompson sheds more light on the morphological evolution of Li 2 O 2 particles in Lithium-air batteries. Lithium-air (Li?O Mitchell, Betar M. Gallant, Yang Shao-Horn, and Carl V. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. doi: 10.1021/jz4003586.

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MAY 24, 2013

A team including researchers from Hanyang University (South Korea) and University of Rome Sapienza (Italy) have shown that operating temperature plays an important role in the performance of Lithium-air batteries. They also showed that the temperature also influences the crystallinity of lithium peroxide formed during cell discharge.

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JANUARY 19, 2016

Lithium-air batteries form lithium peroxide (Li 2 O 2 )—a solid precipitate that clogs the pores of the electrode and degrades cell performance—as part of the charge−discharge reaction process. We have to learn how to design catalysts to understand exactly what’s involved in lithium-air batteries.

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AUGUST 15, 2017

Lithium-air (or lithium-oxygen) batteries potentially could offer three times the gravimetric energy of current Li-ion batteries (3500 Wh/kg at the cell level); as such, they are looked to a potential solution for long-range EVs. Resources. V), where Li 2 O 2 is formed directly through electrochemical steps. Leverick, C.

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APRIL 17, 2012

The report— Cost and performance of EV batteries —describes the current state of development and cost of batteries, before mapping the future cost and performance of lithium-ion batteries out to 2030. — Resources. It results in a higher cost per kWh for a PHEV compared to pure battery electric vehicle.

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AUGUST 26, 2018

The new work, published in Science , shows that four-electron conversion for lithium-oxygen electrochemistry is highly reversible. The Waterloo team is the first to achieve four-electron conversion, which doubles the electron storage of lithium-oxygen, also known as lithium-air, batteries. Resources.

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OCTOBER 24, 2013

Andrews in Scotland report in a paper in the journal Nature Materials that titanium carbide (TiC) may represent a viable, stable cathode for rechargeable lithium-air batteries. Li-air batteries are receiving intense interest because of their extremely high theoretical specific energy. Muhammed M. Ottakam Thotiyl, Stefan A.

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JULY 25, 2016

Conventional lithium-air batteries draw in oxygen from the outside air to drive a chemical reaction with the battery’s lithium during the discharging cycle, and this oxygen is then released again to the atmosphere during the reverse reaction in the charging cycle. —Zhu et al. 2016.111.

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MARCH 12, 2012

In an open access paper published in the International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials , researchers from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences review significant developments and remaining challenges of practical Li–air batteries and the current understanding of their chemistry.

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MAY 1, 2017

Lithium-air (Li-O 2 ) batteries are among the nost energy-dense electrochemical platforms for mobile energy storage, and are thus considered promising for electrified transportation. Archer (2017) “Designer interphases for the lithium-oxygen electrochemical cell” Science Advances Vol. —Choudhury et al. Zachman, Lena F.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Leveraging high performance computing resources unique to the national laboratory system, VTO has developed robust modeling, simulation, and big data analytics capabilities, while research of advanced sensing and perception technologies, system controls, and other connected and automated technologies has advanced rapidly.

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JULY 27, 2015

Processes for sustainable energy production must be environmentally benign, reduce greenhouse gas production, and utilize renewable resources. Advanced systems such as lithium-air, sodium-ion, as well as lithium-ion electrochemical energy storage are appropriate.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The creation of the global operating unit Battery Materials will allow us to take a more integrated, solutions-oriented approach to serving battery manufacturers, leveraging our resources and expertise in a unified and focused manner. Andreas Kreimeyer, member of the Board of Executive Directors and Research Executive Director of BASF SE.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Recently, Yoo and Zhou examined the GNSs as air electrodes in lithium-air batteries with a hybrid electrolyte and found that GNSs showed good electrocatalytic activity for ORR in an aqueous electrolyte, resulting in high performance.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

Carbon is seen as an attractive potential cathode material for aprotic (non-aqueous) Lithium-air batteries, which are themselves of great interest for applications such as in electric vehicles because of the cells’ high theoretical specific energy. The results emphasize that stable cycling of Li 2 O 2 at the cathode in a Li?O

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NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The increase in surface area produced by this method can provide a big advantage in lithium-air batteries’ rate of charging and discharging. Belcher emphasizes that this is early-stage research, and much more work is needed to produce a lithium-air battery that’s viable for commercial production. —Oh et al.

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APRIL 7, 2013

Processes for sustainable energy production must be environmentally benign, reduce greenhouse gas production, and utilize renewable resources. Advanced systems such as lithium-air, sodium-ion, as well as lithium-ion with new cathode chemistries are appropriate. The duration of unsolicited awards is typically three years.

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MAY 27, 2014

The iron, carbon and VB 2 molten air batteries they proposed offered intrinsic volumetric energy capacities of 10,000 (for Fe to Fe(III)); 19,000 (C to CO 3 2- ) and 27,000 Wh liter -1 (VB 2 to B 2 O 3 + V 2 O 5 ), compared to 6,200 Wh liter -1 for a lithium-air battery. —Cui and Licht. Batteries'

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JULY 23, 2012

Very high energy density rechargeable lithium air (or Li-O 2 ) batteries are of great interest for future electrified transportation because at best their practical energy density could approach that of current gasoline engined vehicles (after factoring in tank-to-wheel efficiencies). Earlier post.). —Peng et al. 1223985.

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JUNE 17, 2015

The recent emerging demand for extended-range electric vehicles has stimulated the development of high-energy storage systems, especially the highly promising lithium–sulfur and lithium–air batteries, in which lithium metal anodes are employed. —Li et al. This is a really exciting observation.

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

Lithium-sulfur and lithium air batteries have the potential to store 10 times more energy in the same space as the current state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries. However, the Li-metal electrodes in these next-generation batteries are especially prone to forming dendrites. Wood, Eric Kazyak, Alexander F. 6b00260.

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