2012年11月15日木曜日

Large Capacity L-ion Battery Technologies and Market Prospects

A book, entitled “Large Capacity L-ion Battery Technologies and Market Prospects”, has been recently published.
The major points discussed in the book are the following two.
1) The material technology and the battery technology are both described.
2) Market prospects of L-ion batteries for medium- and large-scale applications, including electric cars.
The lithium resource is plentiful in amount. Lithium is dangerous due to its nature of corrosive and explosive, however. It is an urgent desire to improve the technology to extract lithium from seawater containing an infinite amount of lithium particularly in Japan. The all-solid-state L-ion battery, which copes with the explosive, has been developed to a significant level. Further, the current social circumstance demanding use of clean energy requires acceleration of the research and development of the L-ion battery which stores and discharges electrical energy.
The L-ion battery is expanding its market to the market of medium- to large-scale L-ion batteries for automotive and industrial applications.
Vigorous efforts are focused on development of elemental technologies of L-ion battery such as electrodes and electrolyte, and materials used for them. >> More