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3D PrintingâEnabled Design and Manufacturing Strategies for Batteries: A Review
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have significantly impacted the daily lives, finding
broad applications in various industries such as consumer electronics, electric
vehicles, medical devices, aerospace, and power tools. However, they still face
issues (i.e., safety due to dendrite propagation, manufacturing cost, random
porosities, and basic & planar geometries) that hinder their widespread
applications as the demand for LIBs rapidly increases in all sectors due to
their high energy and power density values compared to other batteries.
Additive manufacturing (AM) is a promising technique for creating precise
and programmable structures in energy storage devices. This review first
summarizes light, filament, powder, and jetting-based 3D printing methods
with the status on current trends and limitations for each AM technology. The
paper also delves into 3D printing-enabled electrodes (both anodes and
cathodes) and solid-state electrolytes for LIBs, emphasizing the current
state-of-the-art materials, manufacturing methods, and
properties/performance. Additionally, the current challenges in the AM for
electrochemical energy storage (EES) applications, including limited
materials, low processing precision, codesign/comanufacturing concepts for
complete battery printing, machine learning (ML)/artificial intelligence (AI) for
processing optimization and data analysis, environmental risks, and the
potential of 4D printing in advanced battery applications, are also presented