Ever since the breakthrough in Lithium-Sulfur Battery technology, all debates over the batteries of the future had settled. Both academia and industry had tacitly placed it upon the throne of the new era.
A whole host of concepts, such as Aluminum-Ion Batteries, had been cut one after another. In their place, major corporations and research institutions quietly adjusted their research directions, beginning to explore how to further increase the energy density and safety of Lithium-Sulfur Batteries based on "Modified PDMS Material and HCS-2 material."
The reason for this was that lithium was practically a bug-level existence in the battery field. In theory, no material could surpass lithium metal, third on the periodic table, in terms of energy density per unit mass.
Taking volume, mass, and other factors into account, lithium-based materials had already nearly reached the pinnacle of chemical batteries. Lithium-Air Batteries had elevated that pinnacle by another level at the level of their underlying mechanism.
To surpass it further through materials alone was no longer possible. The only option was to seek that possibility beyond chemical batteries—for example, setting aside the electrochemical properties of materials themselves and exploring things like Fusion Batteries from the perspective of their mechanisms...
Yet just when everyone believed that Lithium-Sulfur Batteries would maintain their unshakable dominance in the new energy industry for at least the next fifty years...
That tacit tranquility was completely shattered in mid-March by a paper published in JACS!
Outside a kindergarten in Jinling, two car owners waiting to pick up their children were squatting on the ground, smoking and bragging. Since both loved cars, their conversation gradually drifted to the noon news.
"Did you hear?"
"Hear what?"
"The Jinling Institute for Advanced Study seems to have developed some kind of Lithium-Air Battery! They say it can double the energy density