Lithium cell technologies

Lithium-Ion Cells. Lithium-ion cells and the newer alternative, lithium-ion-polymer, can usually run much longer on a charge than comparable-size Nicad and nickel-metal hydride batteries. Usually is the keyword here since it depends on the battery s application. If the product using the battery requires low levels of sustained current, the lithium battery will perform very well however, for high-power technology, lithium cells do not perform as well as Nicad or nickel-metal hydride batteries. 

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Instead it is a known as a lithium ion battery since it is free from lithium metal and hence free from the safety and stability problems of lithium cells. The commercialisation of this cell by Sony represents one of the most important breakthroughs in battery technology for many years and is a major success for solid state electrochemistry. 

Since the inception of lithium ion technology, there have been several reviews summarizing the knowledge accumulated about this new technology from various perspectives, with the latest being in 2003. Because electrolytes interact closely with both cathode and anode materials during the operation, their effect on cell performance has been discussed in... 

Solid polymer and gel polymer electrolytes could be viewed as the special variation of the solution-type electrolyte. In the former, the solvents are polar macromolecules that dissolve salts, while, in the latter, only a small portion of high polymer is employed as the mechanical matrix, which is either soaked with or swollen by essentially the same liquid electrolytes. One exception exists molten salt (ionic liquid) electrolytes where no solvent is present and the dissociation of opposite ions is solely achieved by the thermal disintegration of the salt lattice (melting). Polymer electrolyte will be reviewed in section 8 ( Novel Electrolyte Systems ), although lithium ion technology based on gel polymer electrolytes has in fact entered the market and accounted for 4% of lithium ion cells manufactured in 2000. On the other hand, ionic liquid electrolytes will be omitted, due to both the limited literature concerning this topic and the fact that the application of ionic liquid electrolytes in lithium ion devices remains dubious. Since most of the ionic liquid systems are still in a supercooled state at ambient temperature, it is unlikely that the metastable liquid state could be maintained in an actual electrochemical device, wherein electrode materials would serve as effective nucleation sites for crystallization. 

The above merits made LiPFe the salt of choice when lithium ion technology leaped from concept into product. In 1990, it was used by Sony in the first generation lithium ion cell, and since then, its position in the lithium ion industry has remained unchallenged. Like EC as an indispensable solvent component, LiPFe has become the indispensable electrolyte solute for almost all lithium ion devices manufactured in the past decade. 

Temperature Limits. The two indispensable components of the present lithium ion electrolyte systems are LiPFe as salt and EC as solvent. Unfortunately, these two components also impart their sensitivity to extreme temperatures to the lithium ion technology, thus imposing temperature limits to the operation of lithium ion cells. In a somewhat oversimplified account, one can hold EC responsible... 

Unlike the anode-targeted additives discussed in the preceding part, the additives intended for cathode protection have a much longer history than lithium ion technology itself and were originally developed for rechargeable cells based on lithium metal anodes and various 3.0 V class cathode materials. 

Following its rapid rise to dominance in the consumer cell market intended for portable electronics, lithium ion technology was actively considered for special applications such as those in military and space missions. However, the poor performance of the state-of-the-art lithium ion cells at temperatures below —20 °C remained a major obstacle to enabling the normal operations in harsh environments that are frequently encountered in those missions. For example, according to a comprehensive... 

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PVDF homopolymers and copolymers have gained success in the battery and fuel cell industry as binders for cathodes and anodes in lithium ion technology, and... 

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