Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

Preface

In 2014, a team from industry and academia came together to develop a Revolutionary Electric Vehicle Battery and Energy Management System (REVB) funded by the EPSRC and Innovate UK. The project brought together material scientists, electrochemists, physicists, mathematicians, and engineers from OXIS Energy Ltd, Imperial College London, Cranfield University, Lotus Engineering, and Ricardo PLC. In 2016, the team held the first lithium–sulfur conference in the United Kingdom in the Faraday lecture theatre of the Royal Institution in London – a place where scientists, artists, authors, and politicians have shared ideas for over 200 years with the aim of diffusing science for the common purpose of life. The conference was named LiS–M³ and continues annually. M³ stood for materials, mechanisms, and modeling; we also held a fourth session for applications of Li–S technology. Following that first conference, the two conference chairs, Dr. Gregory J. Offer from Imperial College and Dr. Mark Wild from OXIS Energy, were approached to edit this book. The chapters have been provided by those that gave presentations, were invited that day, or were part of the REVB team in the Faraday lecture theatre.

The organization of this book follows the structure of the conference and has the same aim of educating a diverse scientific community about the most promising next‐generation Li–S battery technology, enabling applications requiring batteries with superior gravimetric energy density. ...