This article explores the primary raw materials used in the production of different types of batteries, focusing on lithium-ion, lead-acid, nickel-metal hydride, and solid-state batteries.
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Get a quote1 Introduction. Li-ion batteries (LIBs) have achieved remarkable success in electric vehicles (EVs), consumer electronics, grid energy storage, and other applications thanks to a wide range of electrode materials that meet the performance requirements of different application scenarios.
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Get a quotenickel (Ni), lead (Pb), silicon (Si) and zinc (Zn). Of these materials, antimony, present in lead–acid batteries in vehicles and energy storage, and cobalt plus natural graphite, used in lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, are marked as critical in the 2017 list of critical raw materials.
Critical raw materials in Li-ion batteriesSeveral materials on the EU’s 2020 list of critical raw materia s are used in commercial Li-ion batteries. The most important ones are listed in Table 2. Bauxite is our prim ry source for the production of aluminium. Aluminium foil is used as the cat
Most existing LIBs use aluminum for the mixed-metal oxide cathode and copper for the graphite anode, with the exception of lithium titanate (Li4Ti5, LTO) which uses aluminum for both . The cathode materials are typically abbreviated to three letters, which then become the descriptors of the battery itself.
Add up the growing demand for EVs, a rising battery capacity around the world, and toss in the role that batteries could play for storage on the grid, and it becomes clear that we’re about to see a huge increase in demand for the materials we need to make batteries. Take lithium, one of the key materials used in lithium-ion batteries today.
Table 9.1 Typical raw material requirements (Li, Co, Ni and Mn) for three battery cathodes in kg/kWh Batteries with lithium cobalt oxide (LCO) cathodes typically require approximately 0.11 kg/kWh of lithium and 0.96 kg/kWh of cobalt (Table 9.1).
LIBs currently on the market use a variety of lithium metal oxides as the cathode and graphite as the anode . Most existing LIBs use aluminum for the mixed-metal oxide cathode and copper for the graphite anode, with the exception of lithium titanate (Li4Ti5, LTO) which uses aluminum for both .
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