A Template for Enhanced Lithium Ion Battery Electrodes

Abstract

Dictated by exhausting sources of conventional fossil fuels, their irreversible damage on environment, international conflicts for oil resources – distressing global economy, worldwide research has focused towards developing alternate, but sustainable, sources of energy generation and storage to meet global energy demands and emission-free mobility applications. In recent years, electric cars have become a contemporary notion of sustainable mobility. This has been enabled by the progress in electrochemical energy storage and conversion in batteries. Among the various types of batteries, lithium ion batteries are recognized for their high energy and power density, prerequisites for a long-range and fast charging of electric vehicles. Despite recent developments lithium ion batteries at present are not able to provide the desired energy and power density output for electric vehicles to compete with conventional fossil fuels. The research presented in this thesis explores various fundamental and technical facets of lithium ion batteries aiming at improvement of the energy and power performance