A practical perspective on the potential of rechargeable Mg batteries

J. Alberto Blázquez; Rudi R. Maça; Olatz Leonet; Eneko Azaceta; Ayan Mukherjee; Zhirong Zhao-Karger; Zhenyou Li; Aleksey Kovalevsky; Ana Fernández-Barquín; Aroa R. Mainar; Piotr Jankowski; Laurin Rademacher; Sunita Dey; Siân E. Dutton; Clare P. Grey; Janina Drews; Joachim Häcker; Timo Danner; Arnulf Latz; Dane Sotta; M. Rosa Palacin; Jean-Frédéric Martin; Juan Maria García Lastra; Maximilian Fichtner; Sumana Kundu; Alexander Kraytsberg; Yair Ein-Eli; Malachi Noked; Doron Aurbach

doi:10.1039/D2EE04121A

A practical perspective on the potential of rechargeable Mg batteries†

J. Alberto Blázquez,

*^a Rudi R. Maça,^a Olatz Leonet,

^a Eneko Azaceta,^a Ayan Mukherjee,

^b Zhirong Zhao-Karger,

^cd Zhenyou Li,

^cd Aleksey Kovalevsky,^e Ana Fernández-Barquín,

^a Aroa R. Mainar,

^a Piotr Jankowski,

^f Laurin Rademacher,^g Sunita Dey,^h Siân E. Dutton,

ⁱ Clare P. Grey,

^h Janina Drews,

^g Joachim Häcker,

^g Timo Danner,

^cg Arnulf Latz,

^cgj Dane Sotta,

^k M. Rosa Palacin,

^l Jean-Frédéric Martin,^k Juan Maria García Lastra,

^f Maximilian Fichtner,

^cd Sumana Kundu,

^mn Alexander Kraytsberg,^mn Yair Ein-Eli,^mn Malachi Noked

*^b and Doron Aurbach

*^b

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^a CIDETEC, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Gipuzkoa, Paseo Miramón, 196, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
E-mail: ablazquez@cidetec.es

^b Department of Chemistry, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

^c Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU) Electrochemical Energy Storage, Ulm, Germany

^d Institute of Nanotechnology (INT), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany

^e Israel Institute of Metals, Technion R&D foundation LTD., Technion City, Haifa, Israel

^f Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

^g Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Pfaffenwaldring 38-40, Stuttgart, Germany

^h Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK

ⁱ Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, UK

^j Institute of Electrochemistry, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany

^k CEA-LITEN, 17 Rue des Martyrs, 38054 Grenoble Cedex 9, France

^l Institut de Ciéncia de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus de la UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain

^m Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

ⁿ Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP), Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

Abstract

Emerging energy storage systems based on abundant and cost-effective materials are key to overcome the global energy and climate crisis of the 21st century. Rechargeable Magnesium Batteries (RMB), based on Earth-abundant magnesium, can provide a cheap and environmentally responsible alternative to the benchmark Li-ion technology, especially for large energy storage applications. Currently, RMB technology is the subject of intense research efforts at laboratory scale. However, these emerging approaches must be placed in a real-world perspective to ensure that they satisfy key technological requirements. In an attempt to bridge the gap between laboratory advancements and industrial development demands, herein, we report the first non-aqueous multilayer RMB pouch cell prototypes and propose a roadmap for a new advanced RMB chemistry. Through this work, we aim to show the great unrealized potential of RMBs.

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