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Lithium-sulfur Batteries: Technological Advancements, Emerging Applications, and Growth Opportunities

Publisher Frost & Sullivan
Published Aug 24, 2023
SKU # MC18144834

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Lithium-sulfur Batteries: Technological Advancements, Emerging Applications, and Growth Opportunities


Higher Energy Density and Potential for Cost-Effectiveness Provide Lithium-sulfur Batteries with Market Disruption Potential

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) lead the global energy storage and electrification revolution; however, commercial participants involved in these batteries' large-scale manufacturing face certain limitations and risks. LIBs' energy density has plateaued over the past few years, and, today, the world requires an energy storage solution that delivers higher energy density. In addition, it is important to eliminate woes pertaining to the range electric vehicles (EVs) offer from a single charge and ensure that LIBs can be used in novel consumer electronic applications. Furthermore, certain metals, such as cobalt and nickel, which are used in LIB fabrication, face mining issues as well as price fluctuations, hurting the economics of operations for battery manufacturers and end users. Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries do not require these trace elements in their fabrication, thereby eliminating the associated risks.

Moreover, Li-S batteries offer an exceptional advantage by providing energy densities that exceed 500Wh/kg, a feat not achievable by today’s commercially available battery chemistries, including LIBs. These extraordinary energy storage capabilities also help these batteries to potentially revolutionize other industries, including electric mobility, consumer electronics, healthcare, and power equipment.

This Frost & Sullivan study describes Li-S batteries' technology landscape, including their working mechanism and the typical materials used during fabrication. It also evaluates growth drivers and restraints and offers a comparative analysis with incumbent battery technologies, such as LIBs, sodium-ion batteries, and vanadium redox flow batteries (parameters compared include energy density, safety, cost, and round-trip efficiency). The study also discusses the patent analysis and the company innovation landscape and details growth opportunities that act as key enablers for Li-S adoption.

Table of Contents

Strategic Imperatives
Why Is It Increasingly Difficult to Grow?The Strategic Imperative 8™: Factors Creating Pressure on Growth
The Strategic Imperative 8™
The Impact of the Top 3 Strategic Imperatives on the Lithium-sulfur Battery Industry
Growth Opportunities Fuel the Growth Pipeline Engine™
Research Methodology
Growth Opportunity Analysis
Scope of Analysis
Segmentation
Growth Drivers
Growth Restraints
Technology Snapshot
Li-S Batteries: Introduction and Working Mechanism
Li-S Batteries: Advantages and Challenges
Li-S Batteries: Materials and Components
Li-S Batteries: Comparative Analysis with Currently Dominant Lithium-ion Batteries
Li-S Batteries: Comparative Analysis with Incumbent Battery Chemistries
Innovation Ecosystem
Li-S Batteries: Prospective Applications
Li-S Batteries: Mitigating Supply Chain Issues Current-generation Lithium-ion Batteries are Facing
Li-S Battery Development: Prominent Global Stakeholders
Zeta Energy, the United States
Theion, Germany
Other Key Li-S Battery Developers
Li-S Batteries: Patent Landscape
Li-S Batteries: Manufacturers’ Funding Information
Growth Opportunity Universe
Growth Opportunity 1: Emergence of Feasible Electric Aviation Solutions that Use Li-S Batteries
Growth Opportunity 1: Emergence of Feasible Electric Aviation Solutions that Use Li-S Batteries (continued)
Growth Opportunity 2: Using Digital Tools to Perform Data Analytics by Coupling Li-S Batteries with Advanced Wireless BMS
Growth Opportunity 2: Using Digital Tools to Perform Data Analytics by Coupling Li-S Batteries with Advanced Wireless BMS (continued)
Growth Opportunity 3: Using Advanced Nanomaterials in Li-S Battery Fabrication to Enable the Next Generation of Soft Electronics
Growth Opportunity 3: Using Advanced Nanomaterials in Li-S Battery Fabrication to Enable the Next Generation of Soft Electronics (continued)
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