Structural Batteries from Concept to Deployment

Journal article, 2026

Structural batteries promise transformative integration of energy and structure
Structural batteries have long been proposed as a means of rethinking how energy storage is integrated into engineered systems. As electrification expands across transportation, aerospace, robotics, and distributed energy applications, mass efficiency and volume utilization increasingly determine overall system performance. Conventional designs treat batteries as payload and structures as passive support, resulting in duplicated mass and constrained packaging. Structural batteries offer an alternative paradigm: integration of electrochemical energy storage directly into load-bearing components, enabling functional mass replacement and potentially improving system-level efficiency.