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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abstractNote = {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.},
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year = {Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010},
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