Emerging trends in sustainable battery chemistries

With the rapid growth in demand for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in our increasingly electrified economy, there is an urgent need for a sustainable supply chain enabled by efficient recycling of critical metals. While significant improvements in recycling technologies have been achieved, they still face challenges in the recovery of all of the LIB components. In this review, we discuss the importance of recovering critical materials and how battery designs can be improved to facilitate recyclability. Recycling-friendly designs of next-generation all-solid-state and sodium-ion batteries are also discussed, in an effort to ensure sustainability before commercialization. Emerging trends in renewable energy and its corresponding scale of battery storage needed are introduced, with new perspectives on alternative battery paradigms to address long-term critical metal sustainability.

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With the growing demand for lithium-ion batteries, there is an urgent need for efficient recycling to ensure a sustainable supply chain. Improving battery design for recyclability and discussing next-generation battery designs. Introducing trends in renewable energy and battery storage needs, with new battery paradigms for long-term critical metal sustainability.