Conclusive summary and perspective Lithium-ion batteries are considered to remain the battery technology of choice for the near-to mid-term future and it is anticipated that significant to substantial further improvement is possible.
Next-generation lithium-ion batteries will need to offer higher energy and power densities at a lower cost. Current battery manufacturing is struggling to further improve these key metrics. The EU-funded AM4BAT project will leverage additive manufacturing technologies for fabricating 3D lithium-ion batteries.
In fact, compared to other emerging battery technologies, lithium-ion batteries have the great advantage of being commercialized already, allowing for at least a rough estimation of what might be possible at the cell level when reporting the performance of new cell components in lab-scale devices.
Nonetheless, lithium-ion batteries are nowadays the technology of choice for essentially every application – despite the extensive research efforts invested on and potential advantages of other technologies, such as sodium-ion batteries [, , ] or redox-flow batteries [10, 11], for particular applications.
Lithium ion batteries as a power source are dominating in portable electronics, penetrating the electric vehicle market, and on the verge of entering the utility market for grid-energy storage.
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