{"id":649024,"date":"2025-01-13T14:10:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T11:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/research-shows-sodium-ion-batteries-need-breakthroughs-to-compete\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T14:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T11:10:18","slug":"research-shows-sodium-ion-batteries-need-breakthroughs-to-compete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/research-shows-sodium-ion-batteries-need-breakthroughs-to-compete\/","title":{"rendered":"#Research shows sodium-ion batteries need breakthroughs to compete"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3500b33ab07\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3500b33ab07\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/research-shows-sodium-ion-batteries-need-breakthroughs-to-compete\/#Dos_and_donts_for_sodium-ion\" >Do&#8217;s and don&#8217;ts for sodium-ion<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/research-shows-sodium-ion-batteries-need-breakthroughs-to-compete\/#Up_next\" >Up next<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2025\/sodium-ion-batteries-n.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2025\/sodium-ion-batteries-n.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"From left, study authors William Chueh, Sally Benson, and Adrian Yao. Credit: Jim Gensheimer\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2025\/sodium-ion-batteries-n.jpg\" alt=\"Sodium-ion batteries need breakthroughs to compete\" title=\"From left, study authors William Chueh, Sally Benson, and Adrian Yao. Credit: Jim Gensheimer\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                From left, study authors William Chueh, Sally Benson, and Adrian Yao. Credit: Jim Gensheimer<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Legions of battery engineers and their supporters have sought for years to build batteries cheaper than the dominant lithium-ion <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>, hoping to capture some of lithium-ion&#8217;s $50 billion-a-year and growing market. The latest darling contender among researchers, startups, and venture capitalists\u2014sodium-ion batteries\u2014has received much attention after COVID-induced mineral supply chain challenges sent lithium prices on a wild ride.<\/p>\n<p>Still, achieving a low-cost contender may be several years away for sodium-ion batteries and will require a set of technology advances and favorable market conditions, according to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41560-024-01701-9\" target=\"_blank\">a new study in <i>Nature Energy<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sodium-ion batteries are often assumed to have lower costs and more resilient supply chains compared to lithium-ion batteries. Despite much potential, sodium-ion batteries still face an uphill struggle. The amount of energy they hold per pound tends to be lower than lithium-ion batteries.<\/p>\n<p>So, possible lower materials prices aside, the cost per unit of energy stored remains higher for sodium-ion batteries. This likely would limit widespread commercial adoption\u2014unless research breakthroughs can be made first. The most fertile areas for advancement are highlighted in the study, the first by a new partnership between the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability&#8217;s Precourt Institute for Energy and the SLAC-Stanford Battery Center.<\/p>\n<p>The new program, STEER, assesses the technological and economic potential of emerging energy technologies and advises &#8220;what to build, where to innovate, and how to invest&#8221; for the energy transition. The new study evaluated more than 6,000 scenarios to test the robustness of their roadmaps for sodium-ion battery&#8217;s competitive potential.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The price of lithium-ion batteries rose for the first time in 2022, which set off alarms for potentially needing an alternative. Sodium-ion is perhaps the most compelling near-term challenger to lithium-ion, and many battery companies announced plans of major build out of sodium-ion manufacturing, promising pathways to lower prices than the incumbent,&#8221; said Adrian Yao, the study&#8217;s lead author as well as the founder and team lead of STEER, which began in October 2023 with the support of three offices within the U.S. Department of Energy.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                        <!-- TechX - News - In-article --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We recognized that if, when, and how sodium-ion batteries might undercut lithium-ion on price was largely speculative, especially given that the price of lithium-ion continues to fall,&#8221; said Yao, a doctoral candidate who returned to academia after eight years of being the founder and chief technology officer of a lithium-ion battery startup now producing its batteries on a large, commercial scale.<\/p>\n<p>Yao&#8217;s Ph.D. co-advisors are the new study&#8217;s senior authors and the co-directors of STEER: Sally Benson, the Precourt Family Professor in the Department of Energy <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a> &amp; Engineering in the Doerr School of Sustainability; and William Chueh, an associate professor of materials science in the School of Engineering, of photon science at SLAC, and of energy science and engineering in the Doerr School.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This sodium-ion study was the perfect undertaking to launch STEER as a new way to guide research and investment toward the technology roadmaps most worthy of pursuit and, perhaps more important, away from ones unlikely to be successful,&#8221; Benson said.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Dos_and_donts_for_sodium-ion\"><\/span>Do&#8217;s and don&#8217;ts for sodium-ion<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To compete on price, specifically against a low-cost variant of the lithium-ion battery known as lithium-iron-phosphate, the study highlights several key routes for sodium-ion battery developers. Most important is to increase energy densities without the use of critical minerals. Specifically, developers should target lithium-iron-phosphate energy densities while moving away from nickel. Currently, most leading sodium-ion designs rely on the relatively expensive metal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our primary objective, though, was not predicting specific years for when we expect price parity, but in surfacing the impacts of various market scenarios on the viability of competing technologies,&#8221; said Chueh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As technologists and investors, we cannot assume that economies-of-scale will always send prices plummeting once a device reaches commercial production. Yes, there will be a learning curve, but here we quantify this curve and show that it isn&#8217;t enough on its own,&#8221; said Chueh, who is also the director of the Precourt Institute for Energy. &#8220;Engineering advances will likely do much more to cut sodium-ion battery costs than simply scaling production.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Such advances and new battery chemistries <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly are worth pursuing, the researchers said. Continuing to rely so heavily on lithium-ion batteries as more energy storage is needed for the global transition to sustainable energy will pose security, economic, and geopolitical risks.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the study simulates how the competitiveness of sodium-ion would be accelerated if supply shocks were to occur to graphite\u2014a critical material used in lithium-ion batteries where China controls more than 90% of the global supply. In fact, on Dec. 3, 2024 China began to significantly restrict exports of graphite to the United States, while also banning exports of three other critical minerals.<\/p>\n<p>The study also identifies market forces and supply chain conditions that could hurt sodium-ion&#8217;s competition with lithium-ion. For example, if lithium prices continue where they are today near historic lows, sodium-ion has a narrower set of technology routes to become price advantageous in the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One key thing we learned from industry practitioners is that while battery cell prices are important, technologies only succeed at the systems level, say an electric vehicle or a grid-scale battery energy storage system. That&#8217;s why we&#8217;re now expanding our scope to provide more holistic perspectives, including understanding the cost of safety and other systems considerations,&#8221; said Yao.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                        <!-- TechX - News - In-article --><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Up_next\"><\/span>Up next<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>STEER has begun to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ly its approach to other technology areas. Its researchers are examining the supply chain of the previously mentioned and often overlooked critical mineral: graphite. Industry executives and Department of Energy leaders advised on the right questions to ask and answer at a roundtable in Washington, D.C. in September. The workshop included more than 40 industry organizations, stitching together the value chain from mining companies to car makers, as well as every graphite manufacturer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;STEER is able to identify paths with the highest chances of contributing to the energy transition and those likely to lead nowhere thanks to our collaborators in industry, government, and other research institutions,&#8221; said Benson. &#8220;Our team combines commercial deployment experience, technology roadmapping, and systems thinking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The STEER team also plans to analyze technology roadmaps in long-duration energy storage, as well as other energy transition areas such as hydrogen and industrial decarbonization.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-main__more p-4\">\n<p><strong>More information:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAdrian Yao et al, Critically assessing sodium-ion technology roadmaps and scenarios for techno-economic competitiveness against lithium-ion batteries, <i>Nature Energy<\/i> (2025). <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41560-024-01701-9\" target=\"_blank\">www.nature.com\/articles\/s41560-024-01701-9<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"d-inline-block text-medium my-4\">\n                                                Provided by<br \/>\n                                                                                                    Stanford University<br \/>\n                                                    \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon_open\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<use href=\"https:\/\/techx.b-cdn.net\/tmpl\/v2\/img\/svg\/sprite.svg#icon_open\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/svg><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>                                        <!-- print only --><\/p>\n<div class=\"d-none d-print-block\">\n<p>\n                                                <strong>Citation<\/strong>:<br \/>\n                                                Losing to lithium: Research shows sodium-ion batteries need breakthroughs to compete (2025, January 13)<br \/>\n                                                retrieved 13 January 2025<br \/>\n                                                from https:\/\/techxplore.com\/<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>\/2025-01-lithium-sodium-ion-batteries-breakthroughs.html\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>\n                                            This document is subject to copyright. 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