For the past decade the lithium-ion battery has had great success in powering many of our rechargeable energy needs. It’s ability to hold more energy than other conventional batteries is what has kept it at the top of the battery pyramid for more than a decade. However, to create a more sustainable future, scientists and engineers have continued to search for a battery technology that could one...

DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201501590 electrochemical stability window, and (3) chemical compatibility with the anode and cathode. In the past few years, major advances have been achieved in increasing the Li ionic conductivity of the solid electrolytes. The state-of-the-art solid electrolyte materials, such as Li-garnet Li 7 La 3 Zr 2 O 12 (LLZO) and Li 10 GeP 2 S 12 (LGPS) have achieved an ionic conduc...

Lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries have emerged as promising alternatives to Li-ion batteries. The commercial feasibility of Li–S is still in question due the usage a highly reactive Li-metal anode and complex electrochemistry sulfur cathode. We demonstrate here battery that free both lithium-metal sulfur-element (S8) Instead carbonaceous material, lithiated anatase titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanopar...

The optimal profile of charging current for a lithium-ion battery is estimated using dynamic optimization implemented via control vector parameterization (CVP). An efficient reformulated model is used for simulating the system behavior of the Li-ion battery. Dynamic optimization is made possible due to the computationally inexpensive reformulated model. It is found that, if the battery is charg...

Rechargeable non-aqueous Li-air battery technology offers potential advantages over other existing battery systems in terms of specific energy and energy density, which could enable the driving range of an electric vehicle to be comparable to that of gasoline vehicles. Development of efficient cathode catalysts and stable electrolytes for the Li-air battery has been intensively investigated for...

Rechargeable batteries made from low-cost and abundant materials operating in safe aqueous electrolytes are attractive for large-scale energy storage. Sodium-ion battery is considered as a potential alternative of current lithium-ion battery. As sodium-intercalation compounds suitable for aqueous batteries are limited, we adopt a novel concept of Li(+)/Na(+) mixed-ion electrolytes to create two...

A novel simple synthetic pathway to a carbon-coated Li 2 S material from single molecular source for battery application using electrospinning methods is presented.

Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery is considered to be a promising energy storage system due its high density and low cost. However, the commercialization of Li-S hindered by several problems such as insulating nature active materials, notorious “shuttle effect" damage lithium dendrites. Cellulose-based materials have attracted widespread attention in development on account their environmentally fri...