Open AccessThe 2021 battery technology roadmap
Author(s) -
Jianmin Ma,
Yutao Li,
Nicholas S. Grundish,
John B. Goodenough,
Yuhui Chen,
Limin Guo,
Zhangquan Peng,
Xiaoqun Qi,
Fengyi Yang,
Long Qie,
ChangAn Wang,
Bing Huang,
Zeya Huang,
Linhui Chen,
Dawei Su,
Guoxiu Wang,
Xinwen Peng,
Zehong Chen,
Junliang Yang,
Shan He,
Xu Zhang,
Haijun Yu,
Chaopeng Fu,
Min Jiang,
Ding Wen,
ChuanFu Sun,
Qingmin Pan,
Yongbing Tang,
Xianfeng Li,
Xiulei Ji,
Fang Wan,
Zhiqiang Niu,
Fang Lian,
Caiyun Wang,
Gordon G. Wallace,
Min Fan,
Qinghai Meng,
Sen Xin,
YuGuo Guo,
Wan Li
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. d, applied physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.857
H-Index - 198
eISSN - 1361-6463
pISSN - 0022-3727
DOI - 10.1088/1361-6463/abd353
Subject(s) - battery (electricity) , energy storage , renewable energy , electricity , environmental economics , process engineering , computer science , environmental science , engineering , electrical engineering , power (physics) , economics , physics , quantum mechanics
Sun, wind and tides have huge potential in providing us electricity in an environmental-friendly way. However, its intermittency and non-dispatchability are major reasons preventing full-scale adoption of renewable energy generation. Energy storage will enable this adoption by enabling a constant and high-quality electricity supply from these systems. But which storage technology should be considered is one of important issues. Nowadays, great effort has been focused on various kinds of batteries to store energy, lithium-related batteries, sodium-related batteries, zinc-related batteries, aluminum-related batteries and so on. Some cathodes can be used for these batteries, such as sulfur, oxygen, layered compounds. In addition, the construction of these batteries can be changed into flexible, flow or solid-state types. There are many challenges in electrode materials, electrolytes and construction of these batteries and research related to the battery systems for energy storage is extremely active. With the myriad of technologies and their associated technological challenges, we were motivated to assemble this 2020 battery technology roadmap.