China News Service, Beijing, September 25th From September 23rd to 24th, the 2026 Lithium Metal Battery Frontier Forum (LMBF2026) was held in Beijing. With the theme of "Focus on the Frontier and Drive the Future", the forum brings together domestic and foreign scientists, industry experts and representatives of innovative enterprises. The forum set up three major topics spanning the "material-interface" double breakthrough of high-energy lithium metal batteries, the "extreme demand" reconstruction of electric aviation and embodied intelligence, and "engineering-commercialization-intelligence" from laboratory to factory, focusing on materials, scenarios and engineering issues.
The accelerated development of new applications puts forward complex requirements for power batteries such as high energy density, high power, high safety and long life. In scenarios such as electric aviation, embodied intelligence, and new energy vehicles, high safety and high specific energy batteries are respectively related to longer range, higher payload, longer continuous operation time, and alleviation of battery life anxiety.
During the forum, experts, scholars and industry representatives from the lithium battery industry chain, electric aviation, embodied intelligence and other fields discussed everything from new electrolytes, interface regulation, high-capacity cathodes and composite anodes, to the realistic needs for high safety, high specific energy, high power, and long life in scenarios such as flying cars and embodied intelligence, to roll-to-roll manufacturing, process yield, inspection and testing, and AI full life cycle management. Research and practice in different disciplines and industrial links verify and complement each other under the same industrialization proposition. From material systems and safety mechanisms to manufacturing processes, scene adaptation and detection closed loops, they jointly promote the verification and improvement of the large-scale path of lithium metal batteries.
Zhang Yuegang, chairman of the conference and professor of Tsinghua University, pointed out that the energy density of existing lithium-ion batteries is close to the theoretical limit, and lithium metal anode is an important choice for the next generation of high-energy-density batteries. As for the industrialization path, the current technical routes that are more industrially feasible are still based on lithium metal anodes, high-nickel ternary cathodes and liquid electrolyte systems. The scale of pure solid-state routes still takes time. Safety evaluation standards are the key foundation for the large-scale application of high-specific energy batteries. In the future, the preparation of relevant standards will be promoted around the safety evaluation of lithium metal batteries. This standard will be oriented to leading application scenarios such as electric aviation and high-end drones, establish a more targeted and enforceable safety evaluation basis, and provide a safety and standard foundation for the industrialization of lithium metal batteries.
Guests at the meeting pointed out that the industrialization of lithium metal batteries requires a systematic breakthrough, which must not only solve the interface matching and safety issues of high-capacity positive electrodes, lithium metal negative electrodes and electrolytes, but also simultaneously improve manufacturing yields, detection capabilities, and scene adaptability. my country's relatively complete lithium battery industry chain and the rapid development of new application scenarios provide favorable industrial conditions for engineering verification and product iteration of related technologies. As material innovation, manufacturing processes, safety standards and application requirements are further connected, the cutting-edge value of lithium metal batteries will be increasingly defined by the ability to deliver at scale in real scenarios.
The forum was co-organized by the Department of Physics of Tsinghua University and the Electric Aviation Branch of the Chinese Society of Aeronautics, and co-organized by Anhui Mengwei New Energy Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing Yizhuang Shengyuan Investment and Development Group Co., Ltd., and others.
