Investigation of Parameters Influencing the Producibility of Anodes for Sodium-Ion Battery Cells

Abstract

Lithium-ion battery cells will dominate the market in the next 10 years. However, the use of certain materials as cobalt is a critical issue today and is constantly being reduced. Sodium-ion batteries are an alternative, which has already been researched on a laboratory scale. Increasing of the individual production steps are serious bottlenecks for bringing basic cell concepts into application. Within this paper a systematic investigation of parameters influencing the producibility for sodium-ion battery cells will be taken into account. For this purpose, the characteristic process variables and challenges along the production chain are presented along the process chain of lithium-ion battery cells. The influence of various process-machine interactions on the properties of the electrode is illustrated using the anode of sodium-ion batteries as an example. First conclusions whether the production technology can be adapted to the cell chemistry of the future at an early stage will be made.