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Lithium-ion batteries have established their place as the leader in the power and energy densities for mobile applications. The global lithium-ion battery market is anticipated to witness a relatively strong growth over the coming years due to its extended penetration in electronics industry, especially in smartphones. Exploitation of natural sources for graphite production coupled with strict regulations pertaining to the production of natural graphite is anticipated to result in short supply of graphite. The need for substitute sources has augmented. Upsurge in demand for lithium-ion batteries is likely to be soon challenged by the development of next-generation batteries. Silicon anode batteries are expected to foresee extensive growth owing to the added advantages that they provide with such as enhanced performance capacity of silicon and low use of the anode material.
Consumer Electronics Industry to Surge Ahead of Others in Terms of Adoption
The global smartphone consumption is projected to expand at an outstanding rate with its consumption growing extensively in 2018. Currently, thinner, lighter, and faster smartphones with relatively advanced features have been developed and preferred more by the consumers across the globe. Nevertheless, manufacturers have been unable to improve the battery capacity as per the requirements. Operations such as video streaming, playing high graphic resolution games along with RAM/ROM utilization, and others reduce battery performance. Moreover, graphite anode’s performance in the lithium-ion batteries reaches its ultimate capacity in almost 1000 cycles. Thereby, replacing graphite with silicon raises the capacity of the battery by 10 times. This is expected to raise the demand for silicon as an anode material in lithium-ion batteries in the long run.
