{"id":209209,"date":"2025-03-20T00:08:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/solid-state-lithium-batteries-may-not-deliver-expected-energy-boost-study-says"},"modified":"2025-03-20T00:08:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T05:08:58","slug":"solid-state-lithium-batteries-may-not-deliver-expected-energy-boost-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/solid-state-lithium-batteries-may-not-deliver-expected-energy-boost-study-says","title":{"rendered":"Solid-state lithium batteries may not deliver expected energy boost, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solid-state-lithium-batteries-may-not-deliver-expected-energy-boost-study-says2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent study evaluating garnet-type solid electrolytes for lithium metal batteries finds that their expected energy density advantages may be overstated. The research reveals that an all-solid-state lithium metal battery (ASSLMB) using lithium lanthanum zirconium oxide (LLZO) would achieve a gravimetric energy density of only 272 Wh\/kg, a marginal increase over the 250\u2013270 Wh\/kg offered by current lithium-ion batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Given the high production costs and manufacturing challenges associated with LLZO, the findings suggest that composite or quasi-solid-state electrolytes may be more viable alternatives. The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S2405829724007979\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Energy Storage Materials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll-solid-state lithium metal batteries have been viewed as the future of energy storage, but our study shows that LLZO-based designs may not provide the expected leap in <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/energy+density\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy density<\/a>,\u201d said Eric Jianfeng Cheng, lead author of the study and researcher at WPI-AIMR, Tohoku University. \u201cEven under ideal conditions, the gains are limited, and the cost and manufacturing challenges are significant.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study evaluating garnet-type solid electrolytes for lithium metal batteries finds that their expected energy density advantages may be overstated. The research reveals that an all-solid-state lithium metal battery (ASSLMB) using lithium lanthanum zirconium oxide (LLZO) would achieve a gravimetric energy density of only 272 Wh\/kg, a marginal increase over the 250\u2013270 Wh\/kg offered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}