2023-Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit
SIPS2023 Volume 8. Poeppelmeier Intl. Symp. / Solid State Chemistry
| Editors: | F. Kongoli, M. Delferro, P. S. Halasyamani, M. A. Alario-Franco, F. Marquis, A. Tressaud, H. Kageyama |
| Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
| Publication Year: | 2023 |
| Pages: | 144 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-1-989820-86-5 (CD) |
| ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
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50 YEARS OLD: NOW PUSHING LITHIUM BATTERIES TO THEIR ULTIMATE LIMITS LEADING TO A CLEANER FOSSIL-FUEL FREE SOCIETY
Stanley Whittingham1;1BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY, New York, United States;
Type of Paper: General Plenary
Id Paper: 422
Topic: 46
Abstract:
The Nobel Committee citation read: “They have laid the foundation of a wireless, fossil fuel-free society, and are of the greatest benefit to humankind.†Now the world needs to take action. Although lithium batteries celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2022, they still achieve only 25% of their theoretical energy density. Even at that level, they now dominate portable energy storage. The dominant anode and cathode today are graphitic carbon and the layered NMC oxides, LI[NiMnCoAl]O2. Both need improving. We must push the chemistry to its limits. This demands that the reaction selectivityÂ
Alternatives to Li-NMC cells will also be discussed, with also a discussion of what is very technically and/or politically challenging and maybe not viable in an attempt to correct some of the exponential hype in the battery energy storage arena. A key challenge in the Western world is to build a sustainable supply chain and manufacturing capability that leapfrogs the present 30 year old technology.