
This study evaluates the global warming potential (GWP) impact of producing lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in emerging European Gigafactories. The paper presents a cradle-to-gate (CTG) life cycle assessment.

The price of the cathode active materials in lithium ion batteries is a key cost driver and thus significantly impacts consumer adoption of devices that utilize large energy storage contents (e.g. electric vehicles)..

A solar cell is made of , such as , that have been fabricated into a . Such junctions are made by one side of the device p-type and the other n-type, for example in the case of silicon by introducing small concentrations of or respectively. In operation, in hit the solar cell and are absorbed by the semic.

Recent advances in polymer donors and non-fullerene acceptors have produced organic. . Selection of model PAL systemWe employ PBDTTPD (chemical structures, Fig. 1) as model of a face-stacked polymer donor, and PCBM as model of an isotr. . MaterialsPBDTTPD (1-Material), P3HT (Rieke Metals), and PCBM (1-Material) were obtained from commercial sources, and used as received. . We thank Qiu-Jing Seah for synthesizing the TAF materials. This research is partially supported by the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore under. . Authors and AffiliationsDepartment of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Chao Zhao, Cindy G. Tang, Zong-Long Seah, Lay-Lay Chua, R.