The alternative battery technologies can supplement or even replace LIBs in individual applications and thus make the battery market more diverse. The sodium-ion battery in particular is looking especially promising - the industry has also picked up speed here in recent months.
The growing global demand for batteries is currently covered for the largest part by lithium-ion batteries. However, alternative battery technologies are increasingly coming into focus due to geopolitical dependencies and resource availability.
Patent and publication analyses indicate that Europe is relatively better positioned for the development of some alternative battery technologies than it currently is for LIBs, such as redox flow batteries, lithium-air and aluminium-ion batteries.
From smartphones to electric vehicles, batteries single-handedly power some of the single most impactful technologies in our lives. And while batteries themselves aren’t some new technology, the lithium-ion (Li-on) kind that powers most of our devices only began gaining ground a few short decades ago.
As research progresses, hemp batteries could become a green alternative in the energy storage sector. Magnesium batteries are emerging as a promising alternative to traditional lithium-ion batteries. Magnesium, being a divalent cation, can move twice the charge per ion, potentially doubling the energy density.
Magnesium batteries are emerging as a promising alternative to traditional lithium-ion batteries. Magnesium, being a divalent cation, can move twice the charge per ion, potentially doubling the energy density. This means that magnesium batteries could store more energy in the same amount of space.