Building Better Batteries in the Solid State: A Review

• Published in: Materials Vol. 12; no. 23; p. 3892
• Main Authors: Mauger, Alain, Julien, Christian M., Paolella, Andrea, Armand, Michel, Zaghib, Karim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 25.11.2019; MDPI
• Subjects: Batteries; Chemical Sciences; Commercialization; Conductivity; Electric power; Electric vehicles; Electrodes; Electrolytes; Energy; Engineering Sciences; Fire hazards; Hazard mitigation; Ion currents; Ions; Laboratories; Lithium; Lithium batteries; Market penetration; Material chemistry; Mechanical properties; Molten salt electrolytes; Other; Plasma sintering; Polymers; R&D; Rechargeable batteries; Research & development; Review; Solid electrolytes; Solid state; ceramics; all-solid-state batteries; Li-air batteries; Li–S batteries; polymers; fast-ion conductors; Li-ion batteries; Na-ion batteries; solid electrolytes; Li-S batteries

Most of the current commercialized lithium batteries employ liquid electrolytes, despite their vulnerability to battery fire hazards, because they avoid the formation of dendrites on the anode side, which is commonly encountered in solid-state batteries. In a review two years ago, we focused on the...