Printing Techniques for Batteries

Design and Manufacture of 3D-Printed Batteries

“…[28][29][30][31][32][33] Over the past few years, 3D printing technology has successfully been employed to fabricate various batteries and microbatteries with outstanding features such as being form-factorfree and having high shape conformability. [34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47] In the 3D-printing manufacturing process, the printable inks (or filaments) of electrode materials are first prepared and then directly printed according to the predetermined electrode and cell designs including the sizes, shapes, and architectures, and finally packaged with or without electrolyte filling (Figure 1A). This 3D printing process is more convenient, customizable, and intelligent in comparison to the conventional tape casting and deposition techniques.…”

“…59 There have been several high-quality reviews on 3D printing technologies that each give a comprehensive description of their characteristic properties. [28][29][30][31][32]45 In this review article, we focus on describing four representative technologies that can print the currently available battery modules so far, including DIW, FDM, IJP, and SLA. Depending on the desired materials of battery modules, a suitable printing technique is chosen based on the feature size of the final products and processability to meet the specific architecture and performance requirements.…”