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Advances and issues in developing salt-concentrated battery electrolytes

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  • Yuki Yamada

    (University of Tokyo
    Kyoto University)

  • Jianhui Wang

    (University of Tokyo
    Westlake University)

  • Seongjae Ko

    (University of Tokyo)

  • Eriko Watanabe

    (University of Tokyo)

  • Atsuo Yamada

    (University of Tokyo
    Kyoto University)

Abstract

With a worldwide trend towards the efficient use of renewable energies and the rapid expansion of the electric vehicle market, the importance of rechargeable battery technologies, particularly lithium-ion batteries, has steadily increased. In the past few years, a major breakthrough in electrolyte materials was achieved by simply increasing the salt concentration in suitable salt–solvent combinations, offering technical superiority in numerous figures of merit over alternative materials. This long-awaited, extremely simple yet effective strategy can overcome most of the remaining hurdles limiting the present lithium-ion batteries without sacrificing manufacturing efficiency, and hence its impact is now widely felt in the scientific community, with serious potential for industrial development. This Review aims to provide timely and objective information that will be valuable for designing better realistic batteries, including a multi-angle analysis of their advantages and disadvantages together with future perspectives. Emphasis is placed on the pathways to address the remaining technical and scientific issues rather than re-highlighting the many technical advantages.

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  • Yuki Yamada & Jianhui Wang & Seongjae Ko & Eriko Watanabe & Atsuo Yamada, 2019. "Advances and issues in developing salt-concentrated battery electrolytes," Nature Energy, Nature, vol. 4(4), pages 269-280, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natene:v:4:y:2019:i:4:d:10.1038_s41560-019-0336-z
    DOI: 10.1038/s41560-019-0336-z
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