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Thermodynamics
Edoardo Catenaro, Denise M. Rizzo, Simona Onori
Summary: This paper proposes a methodology for selecting the most suitable energy storage system for a targeted application, focusing on electrified military vehicles. The method uses the Enhanced-Ragone plot as a guiding tool and employs a frequency-based segmentation strategy to assign requested power to powertrain actuators.
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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Jin Liu, Xingcheng Xiao, Daad Haddad, Qinglin Zhang, Mei Cai, Sherman Zeng
Summary: The study shows that using lithium-ion exchanged zeolite (Li-zeolite) as an additive to cathode electrodes can improve battery cycle life, especially performing better at high temperatures. Li-zeolite is envisioned as a low-cost and scalable path to enhance the performance of LMO and LMO blended electrodes.
ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES
(2021)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Edoardo Catenaro, Denise M. Rizzo, Simona Onori
Summary: The study introduces an experimentally validated Enhanced-Ragone plot (ERp) as a design tool for guiding energy storage system selection, and demonstrates its application in a case study of battery sizing in electric vehicle applications.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Yin Zhang, Yangqin Cheng, Jinhua Song, Yanjun Zhang, Qian Shi, Jingxiao Wang, Fanghua Tian, Shuang Yuan, Zhou Su, Chao Zhou, Yang Wang, Sen Yang
Summary: The paper presents a cost-effective method for synthesizing Si and graphene composites through ball-milling, demonstrating their outstanding performance in lithium-ion batteries and potential for large-scale production in the future.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Gyeongbin Ko, Seongdeock Jeong, Sanghyuk Park, Jimin Lee, Seoa Kim, Youngjun Shin, Wooseok Kim, Kyungjung Kwon
Summary: Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are crucial for the electric vehicle (EV) industry, and LiNi1-x-yCoxMnyO2 (NCM) is the dominant cathode material used in EV LIBs. Due to the need for increased driving range, Ni content in NCM is maximized, but the resulting Ni-rich NCM is unstable. Doping with foreign elements has been explored as a strategy to overcome this instability, with over 46 elements considered and their effects on LIB performance investigated in numerous research articles. This comprehensive analysis of various doping elements and their impact on LIB performance provides valuable insights for the LIB industry and academia.
ENERGY STORAGE MATERIALS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Han Gyo Jeong, Gwanghyun Lee, Jong Hyeok Park
Summary: Silicon is a promising active material for lithium-ion batteries with a high theoretical capacity. However, its fabrication requires complicated and high-cost processes to improve cyclic performance. Herein, we report a one-step wet ball-milling process to fabricate submicron silicon particles coated with a polyacrylonitrile (PAN) layer, which enhances electrolyte wettability and increases lithium-ion pathways on the silicon surface. These improvements result in a stable solid electrolyte interphase layer and reduced internal resistance of the electrodes. The silicon anodes with optimal particle size and PAN layer exhibit superior performance even at ultra-fast current density, and when combined with an NCM712 cathode, a full-cell demonstrates excellent performance.
ACS APPLIED ENERGY MATERIALS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Jin Han, Chaochao Zhao, Lei Wang, Jian Song, Dian Yang, Qinghua Tian
Summary: A simple method was developed to prepare a composite of N-doped carbon embedding Si nanoparticles (Si@C) to address the challenges faced by Si materials. The Si@C-2 composite exhibited excellent electrochemical performance and structure stability after a simple ball milling and pyrolysis carbonization process. The findings suggest that Si@C-2 has great potential for advanced LIB anode applications.
JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
(2023)
Article
Materials Science, Ceramics
Ting-Hao Hsu, Rasu Muruganantham, Wei-Ren Liu
Summary: In this study, novel CuIn2S4 (CIS) material was synthesized and its electrochemical performance was improved through modification with carbon black. The resulting CIS/C composite exhibited higher reversible discharge capacity and maintained stability over 500 cycles. The experiment demonstrates the potential of this composite material for future high-energy Li and post Li-ion batteries applications.
CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
(2022)
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Yining Zou, Zuoxing Guo, Lin Ye, Yuhuan Cui, Kaiwen Zheng, Lijun Zhao
Summary: Transition metals and their oxides are widely studied as anode materials for lithium-ion batteries due to their high theoretical capacities. A porous raspberry-like nickel-enhanced MnO-based carbon-containing composite (Ni/MnO-C) has been successfully synthesized, increasing the specific capacity of LIBs. The porous nanostructure provides buffer space to prevent structural damage and, when broken into smaller nanoparticles, exposes more active sites for additional capacities.
ACS APPLIED NANO MATERIALS
(2021)
Article
Electrochemistry
Liang Zhu, Yingbing Zhang, Xiaoyu Zhao, Yaoxin Jiao, Zijian Zhao, Yanfei Wang, Nianjun Yang
Summary: Coating LiMn2O4 with Al2O3 and PPy using a sol-gel method improves electron conductivity, ion migration rate, and reduces Mn ion dissolution, resulting in enhanced Li ion storage performance of PPy/Al2O3/LMO. This strategy could be applied to synthesize other cathode materials for lithium ion batteries.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Fengchen Zhou, Shaobo Li, Liuzhang Ouyang, Jiangwen Liu, Jun Liu, Zhenguo Huang, Min Zhu
Summary: Few-layer phosphorene (FLP) has exceptional physical and chemical properties, and a simple and efficient low melting media-assisted ball milling (LMMBM) approach is developed to prepare FLP in large quantities. The use of liquid medium promotes the slipping/curling of black phosphorus (BP) layers during ball milling. The LMMBM approach also has potential for mass production of other two-dimensional materials.
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Jun-Xia Li, Jingya Zhang, Yingqiang Zhao, Peng Zhao, Qinxing Xie, Shoumin Zhang
Summary: Heterostructured 8-MnO2/Fe2O3 nanoarrays layer-by-layer assembled on stainless-steel mesh show excellent long-term cycling performance and rate capability, making it a promising anode material for advanced LIBs with high energy density and high power density.
MATERIALS TODAY COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Monika Michalska, Dominika A. Buchberger, Jacek B. Jasinski, Arjun K. Thapa, Amrita Jain
Summary: The electrochemical performance of lithium manganese oxide composites with graphene oxide in Li-ion batteries was studied, showing that the composite with 5%wt. graphene oxide exhibited better capacity retention after cycling.
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Hong Zeng, Feitong Han
Summary: A method for the large-scale synthesis of Si-carbon nanocomposites via two-step ball-milling in an air atmosphere was developed, and the materials exhibited excellent electrochemical performance with high capacity and good cycle stability. This strategy is cost-effective, easy to operate, and highly efficient.
JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC MATERIALS
(2022)
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Yuji Mahara, Naoyuki Nagasako, Hideaki Oka, Yasuhito Kondo, Satoru Kosaka, Hiroyuki Nakano, Takamasa Nonaka, Yoshinari Makimura
Summary: In this study, we found that Li1.12Mn0.74O1.60F0.40 positive electrodes with a loose-crystalline rock salt structure show stable and high capacity, with little change in the charge-discharge curve. The introduction of F-Mn bonds in the positive electrode suppresses the local spinel transition in Mn-based positive electrodes.
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
(2022)
