Abstract:

This bimonthly review paper highlights 100 recent published papers on lithium batteries. We searched the Web of Science and found 1679 papers online from April 1, 2016 to May 31, 2016. 100 of them were selected to be highlighted. Layered oxide and high voltage spinel cathode materials are still under extensive investigations for influences of doping, coating and interface modifications on their cycling performances. Large efforts were devoted to Si based composite anode materials and metallic lithium anode for analyzing the SEI There are a few papers related to electrolyte additives, solid state lithium batteries, Li/S batteries, Li-air batteries, and modeling, and more papers for the characterizations and calculations of doping to cathode materials, SEI and solid state electrolytes and batteries.

Key words: lithium batteries, cathode material, anode material, electrolyte, battery technology