State-of-the-Art, Future Prospects and Challenges in Sodium-Ion Battery Technology
Kritika S. Sharma, Vaishali Tomar, Rekha Sharma and Dinesh Kumar
Energy is a matter of interest for scientists, business and policymakers. This concern will continue to increase due to the gradual reduction of fossil fuels day by day. Though, lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have widely been used due to high energy density, little memory effect, and low self-discharge for portable electronics across the world since 1991. Research in the field of sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) is comparatively new and thus has broad scope due to the abundance and low price of sodium precursors. Presently available electrodes and electrolytes are at the beginning stage of development, and more research is needed to produce SIBs at a massive scale. Selenium and selenium-sulfur (SexSy)-based cathode materials for room temperature lithium, and sodium batteries have been developed. This chapter summarizes current research on materials, discuss prospects and challenges in SIBs technology. This will provide valuable understanding to scientific, commercial, and practical opportunity in the development of sodium-ion batteries.
Keywords
Battery, Sodium-Ion, Research, Lithium-Ion, Challenges
Published online 5/20/2020, 22 pages
Citation: Kritika S. Sharma, Vaishali Tomar, Rekha Sharma and Dinesh Kumar, State-of-the-Art, Future Prospects and Challenges in Sodium-Ion Battery Technology, Materials Research Foundations, Vol. 76, pp 229-250, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644900833-10
Part of the book on Sodium-Ion Batteries
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