{"id":41149,"date":"2023-12-14T11:55:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T11:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=41149"},"modified":"2023-12-14T11:55:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T11:55:21","slug":"upscaling-sodium-ion-batteries-could-prevent-critical-minerals-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/upscaling-sodium-ion-batteries-could-prevent-critical-minerals-shortage\/41149\/","title":{"rendered":"Upscaling sodium-ion batteries could prevent a critical minerals shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"
Batteries are being produced rapidly; however, production increase means a shortage of lithium and cobalt, which are critical components in the most common battery types. Sodium-ion batteries could solve this problem because their materials come from salt and biomass.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe materials we use in the future batteries will be important to switch to renewable energy and a fossil-free vehicle fleet,\u201d explained Rickard Arvidsson, Associate Professor of Environmental Systems Analysis at Chalmers.<\/p>\n
The new research<\/a> is published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology<\/em>.<\/p>\n According to the European Commission\u2019s Critical Raw Materials Act<\/a>, the demand for critical raw battery materials is expected to increase exponentially as EU countries transition to renewable energy systems and electric vehicles.<\/p>\n At the same time, such production carries a high risk of supply disruptions, due to the limited number of sources for raw materials.<\/p>\n Arvidsson said: \u201cLithium-ion batteries are becoming a dominant technology in the world and are better for the climate than fossil-based technology is, especially for transport.<\/p>\n \u201cHowever, you can’t produce lithium-based batteries at the same rate as you want to produce electric cars, and the deposits risk being depleted in the long term.\u201d<\/p>\n The development of new battery technologies is moving fast in the quest for the next generation of sustainable energy storage<\/a> \u2013 which should preferably have a long lifetime, high energy density, and be easy to produce.<\/p>\n The researchers chose to look at sodium-ion batteries, which contain sodium, a very common substance found in common sodium chloride, instead of lithium.<\/p>\nThe increasing demand for battery metals<\/h3>\n
Sodium-ion batteries could be a promising alternative<\/h3>\n