Research identifies ways to reduce lithium in lithium batteries

Researchers at Monash University have developed a new lithium-sulphur battery design that reduces the amount of lithium required in a single battery.

A recent paper by PhD student Declan McNamara, Professor Matthew Hill, and Professor Mainak Majumder of Monash Engineering, with Dr Makhdokht Shaibani of RMIT University, outline how applying a nanoporous polymer directly onto the lithium foil anode has created a new battery design that uses less lithium, has more energy per unit volume, lasts longer and will be half the price of lithium-ion batteries.