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Title: Lithium-Air Battery: High Performance Cathodes for Lithium-Air Batteries

Abstract

BEEST Project: Researchers at Missouri S&T are developing an affordable lithium-air (Li-Air) battery that could enable an EV to travel up to 350 miles on a single charge. Today’s EVs run on Li-Ion batteries, which are expensive and suffer from low energy density compared with gasoline. This new Li-Air battery could perform as well as gasoline and store 3 times more energy than current Li-Ion batteries. A Li-Air battery uses an air cathode to breathe oxygen into the battery from the surrounding air, like a human lung. The oxygen and lithium react in the battery to produce electricity. Current Li-Air batteries are limited by the rate at which they can draw oxygen from the air. The team is designing a battery using hierarchical electrode structures to enhance air breathing and effective catalysts to accelerate electricity production.

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Missouri S&T
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
OSTI Identifier:
1046703
Resource Type:
Program Document
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation; Vehicle Technologies; BEEST; ARPA-E

Citation Formats

. Lithium-Air Battery: High Performance Cathodes for Lithium-Air Batteries. United States: N. p., 2010. Web.
. Lithium-Air Battery: High Performance Cathodes for Lithium-Air Batteries. United States.
. 2010. "Lithium-Air Battery: High Performance Cathodes for Lithium-Air Batteries". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1046703.
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