Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Qi Gong, Lei Hou, Tianyu Li, Yucong Jiao, Peiyi Wu
Summary: A water dispersible and molecular interaction regulated polymer binder (PNAVS) was elaborately designed for Li-S batteries, showing coordination of LiPS with higher binding energy, optimized Li* diffusion coefficient, and ultrastable open circuit voltage for more than 3000 h. The binder engineering strategy in this work will propel the practical applications of high-performance batteries.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yifan Ding, Zixiong Shi, Yingjie Sun, Jianghua Wu, Xiaoqing Pan, Jingyu Sun
Summary: A generic and simple material strategy has been presented to fabricate advanced mediator for improved sulfur electrochemistry. The Li-S cells derived from this strategy exhibit impressive cyclic performances and durable areal capacity, indicating the potential for rationalizing the design and modulation of reliable polysulfide mediators in Li-S batteries.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Shiming Chen, Zhibo Song, Yuchen Ji, Kai Yang, Jianjun Fang, Lu Wang, Zijian Wang, Yan Zhao, Yunlong Zhao, Luyi Yang, Feng Pan
Summary: By synthesizing and applying a conductive binder, the overall electrochemical performance of lithium-sulfur batteries has been enhanced, mainly reflected in the reduced areal resistance, maintained mechanical properties, and improved cycling stability of the sulfur cathode.
Article
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Lian Wu, Yifang Zhao, Yongqiang Dai, Shuxi Gao, Bing Liao, Hao Pang
Summary: By using a modified separator, the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries can be improved, achieving outstanding rate performance and long-term cycling stability.
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Gayeon Yoo, Soochan Kim, Chalathorn Chanthad, Misuk Cho, Youngkwan Lee
Summary: A multifunctional polymer binder combining a commercial binder and elastic rubber has been developed to address long-term issues with Li-S batteries. The use of PVP and XNBR allows control of sulfur volume changes, regulation of soluble polysulfides, and ensures good dispersion of electrode material. The proposed binder leads to a 300% battery performance improvement after 500 cycles, with a capacity decay of only 0.02% per cycle over 1000 cycles.
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Applied
Yujie Qi, Ning Chai, Qinhua Gu, Junnan Chen, Zhaofeng Zhai, Ming Lu, Yiming Niu, Nan Huang, Xia Zhang, Bingsen Zhang
Summary: This study construct Pt nanoparticle loaded nitrogen-doped carbon spheres (Pt/NCS composites) as cathode materials to catalyze the dissociation/nucleation processes of Li2S in lithium-sulfur batteries. The active Pt0 and Pt2+ species are identified for accelerating the dissociation and nucleation of Li2S, respectively. In addition, bidirectional catalysis of active Pt species leads to the expedited conversion of sulfur species and improved redox kinetics. Therefore, Pt/NCS cathode exhibits enhanced long-term cyclability and rate capability.
JOURNAL OF ENERGY CHEMISTRY
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Physical
Zixiong Shi, Yifan Ding, Qiang Zhang, Jingyu Sun
Summary: This article summarizes emerging strategies in the modulation of heterogeneous and homogeneous electrocatalysts, emphasizes the importance of deciphering bidirectional sulfur electrochemistry, and proposes a 3s electrocatalysis model to deepen understanding of the sulfur electrocatalytic mechanism.
ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yan Zhang, Cong Kang, Wei Zhao, Yajie Song, Jiaining Zhu, Hua Huo, Yulin Ma, Chunyu Du, Pengjian Zuo, Shuaifeng Lou, Geping Yin
Summary: Single-atom catalysts are important for improving the performance of lithium-sulfur batteries. In this study, novel single-atom Nb catalysts were designed to enhance sulfur immobilization and catalysis. The Nb-N4 active moiety possessed unfilled antibonding orbitals, promoting hybridization and anchoring of lithium polysulfides. The Nb-SAs@NC cell exhibited high capacity retention, superior rate performance, and competitive areal capacity, providing new possibilities for high-energy-density Li-S batteries.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Peng Wang, Yunhe Song, Zhenming Xu, Na Li, Jinfeng Sun, Bo Hong, Yanqing Lai
Summary: In this study, a strategy of preparing MoxC@NC was proposed to enhance the performance of Li-S batteries. The hollow structure of MoxC@NC can confine the active materials and facilitate the ion/electrolyte penetration, while the MoxC nanoparticles in the shell can suppress the shuttling effect of LiPSs. Moreover, the defective MoxC can catalytically accelerate the conversion of polysulfides, improving the redox kinetics of sulfur species.
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY FRONTIERS
(2022)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Yasmin Mussa, Muhammad Arsalan, Edreese Alsharaeh
Summary: In this study, Co3O4/CoO/GNS/h-BN nanocomposite-based sulfur cathodes for Li-S batteries were developed, showing superior electrochemical performance and high sulfur utilization, with high reversible capacity and capacity retention rate. Various metal oxides on GNS/h-BN could also be potential candidates for high-performance Li-S batteries.
Article
Engineering, Chemical
Tongshuai Wang, Xiaofeng Wang, Aaditya Pendse, Yuechen Gao, Kun Wang, Chulsung Bae, Sangil Kim
Summary: Redox flow batteries (RFBs) based on lithium polysulfide (Li-PS) chemistry offer great opportunities for large-scale energy storage and electric vehicles due to abundant raw materials and higher energy density. The novel multifunctional electrochemical membrane (mECM) with high Li+/PS ion selectivity provides stable electrochemical performance and significantly enhanced capacity retention compared to traditional commercial separators. This suggests that mECM is a promising membrane separator for developing high-performance Li-PS RFB systems.
JOURNAL OF MEMBRANE SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Yuting Jiang, Pei Liang, Mingjian Tang, Shipeng Sun, Huihua Min, Jiachen Han, Xiaodong Shen, Hao Yang, Dongliang Chao, Jin Wang
Summary: In this study, the CM/MoS2-modified separator successfully achieved the immobilization of lithium polysulfides, improvement of conversion kinetics, and facilitation of lithium-ion diffusion in Li-S batteries. By chemically immobilizing and catalytically converting lithium polysulfides, CM/MoS2 can intercept and convert them, while the high-throughput permeability of the coating layer enables efficient screening and anchoring. Based on these advantages, Li-S batteries with the CM/MoS2-modified separator exhibited high capacity, rate capability, and cycling stability.
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Sathish Rajendran, Haoyu Liu, Stephen E. Trask, Baris Key, Andrew N. Jansen, Marco-T F. Rodrigues
Summary: Development of new polymeric binders can help enable the use of silicon-rich anodes in Li-ion batteries. These polymers can improve interfacial interactions and mechanical properties, but may also accelerate cell degradation. Our work demonstrates that redox-active conductive binders can be detrimental to cell performance, and careful experimental validation under realistic conditions is necessary for evaluating new polymers.
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Shungui Deng, Tiezhu Guo, Jakob Heier, Chuanfang (John) Zhang
Summary: Lithium sulfur (Li-S) batteries hold great promise for next generation electronics and electrical vehicles due to their high theoretical capacity and energy density. However, the development of Li-S batteries is hindered by the shuttle effect and sluggish conversion kinetics of lithium polysulfides (LiPSs). This review provides a systematic analysis of the adsorption and catalytic mechanism in Li-S chemistry, discussing the role of metal oxides (MOs) as efficient catalysts and proposing oxygen vacancies and heterostructure engineering as effective strategies to improve the sluggish adsorption-diffusion-conversion process. The challenges and prospects of MOs electrocatalysts in Li-S batteries are also discussed.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Liping Wu, Gang Liu, Hongyuan Xu, Zhenwei Hu, Tao Mei, Jingwen Qian, Xianbao Wang
Summary: A novel sheet-on-sheet architecture with abundant sulfur vacancies (Vs-ZIS@RGO) is designed by in situ growth of flake-like ZnIn2S4 on the reduced graphene oxide surface, serving as a functional layer on the separators for high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries. The sheet-on-sheet structure enables rapid ionic/electronic transfer and shortened diffusion pathways for lithium-ions, while the introduction of sulfur vacancies enhances chemical affinity and accelerates reaction kinetics. The modified separators exhibit excellent initial discharge capacity and long cycle stability, providing new insights for designing durable and efficient LSBs.
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Wenhui Wang, Jiaolong Zhang, Chaolin Li, Xiaohang Kou, Baohua Li, Denis Y. W. Yu
Summary: A stable layered structured cathode with high operating voltage and excellent cycling stability has been reported, demonstrating good cycle performance and rate capability. It shows high capacity utilization and capacity retention when the upper cutoff voltage is not higher than 4.2 V.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS
(2023)
Review
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Wanming Teng, Junxiong Wu, Qinghua Liang, Jiaojiao Deng, Yu Xu, Qiong Liu, Biao Wang, Ting Ma, Ding Nan, Jun Liu, Baohua Li, Qingsong Weng, Xiaoliang Yu
Summary: This review summarizes the recent advancements in electrolytes for alkali metal batteries (lithium, sodium, and potassium batteries), with a special focus on the structure-composition-performance relationships of electrolytes. The review points out the unsuitability of conventional electrolytes for maintaining stability and discusses the role of concentrated and fluorinated electrolytes, as well as functional electrolyte additives, in enhancing the stability of lithium metal batteries. The electrolyte formulations for sodium and potassium metal batteries are also discussed. By highlighting the challenges and research needs in advanced electrolytes for alkali metal batteries, this review sheds light on the principles for the rational design of promising electrolytes and offers new inspirations for developing stable alkali metal batteries with high performance.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS
(2023)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Aihua Ran, Ming Cheng, Shuxiao Chen, Zheng Liang, Zihao Zhou, Guangmin Zhou, Feiyu Kang, Xuan Zhang, Baohua Li, Guodan Wei
Summary: The article introduces a method for effectively estimating the remaining capacity of secondary lithium-ion batteries using real-time short pulse tests combined with data-driven Gaussian process regression algorithm, with an average accuracy of up to 95%. Compared to traditional long charge/discharge tests, this method can greatly reduce testing time.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Xiao Xiao, Zhiyang Zheng, Xiongwei Zhong, Runhua Gao, Zhihong Piao, Miaolun Jiao, Guangmin Zhou
Summary: The lack of a suitable flexible energy storage system has become a major challenge in the development of wearable electronic devices. Flexible Zn-based batteries have emerged as promising candidates due to their safety, eco-efficiency, substantial reserve, and low cost. In this review, the current progress in developing flexible Zn-based batteries is comprehensively reviewed, including their electrolytes, cathodes, and anodes, and discussed in terms of their synthesis, characterization, and performance validation. The challenges in flexible Zn-based battery design are clarified, and future development directions are proposed.
Article
Materials Science, Ceramics
Chenlong Wu, Rui Zhang, Fuyan Liu, Biao Chen
Summary: The electrochemical corrosion behaviors of Ti3SiC2/Cu composite and polycrystalline Ti3SiC2 in a 3.5% NaCl medium were investigated. It was found that the self-corrosion current density of Ti3SiC2/Cu was slightly higher than that of Ti3SiC2, but the corrosion resistance of Ti3SiC2/Cu was better than that of Ti3SiC2 under open circuit potential. The better corrosion resistance of Ti3SiC2 was due to the more stable Si layer, while Cu in Ti3SiC2/Cu reacted with Si layers to form compounds, destroying the weak interaction between Si layers and Ti-C layers.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPLIED CERAMIC TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Le Chen, Yingjie Sun, Xijun Wei, Lixian Song, Gang Tao, Xuan Cao, Dong Wang, Guangmin Zhou, Yingze Song
Summary: Multiscale spherical V2C MXene is designed as a high-efficiency bifunctional promotor for the evolution of sulfur and lithium species in Li-S batteries. The activity of VC can be maximized by tuning the scale, showing efficient LiPS scavenging, improved Li2S nucleation and decomposition kinetics, and effective regulation of Li-ion dynamic behavior for stabilized lithium plating/stripping.
ADVANCED MATERIALS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Xiongwei Zhong, Yangfan Shao, Biao Chen, Chuang Li, Jinzhi Sheng, Xiao Xiao, Baomin Xu, Jia Li, Hui-Ming Cheng, Guangmin Zhou
Summary: A three-electrode rechargeable zinc-air battery (T-RZAB) with decoupled cathodes and a zinc-free anode is developed to solve the problems of opposing requirements for oxygen reduction/evolution reactions and zinc corrosion. The T-RZAB exhibits a high discharge capacity per cycle, low voltage gap, and ultralong cycle life. A large T-RZAB with no significant degradation after cycling for 1000 hours is also achieved. Moreover, a T-RZAB pack with high energy density and low cost is assembled.
ADVANCED MATERIALS
(2023)
Correction
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ming Liu, Chao Wang, Chenglong Zhao, Eveline van der Maas, Kui Lin, Violetta A. Arszelewska, Baohua Li, Swapna Ganapathy, Marnix Wagemaker
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yanyan Wang, Zhijie Wang, Wei Kong Pang, Wilford Lie, Jodie A. Yuwono, Gemeng Liang, Sailin Liu, Anita M. D' Angelo, Jiaojiao Deng, Yameng Fan, Kenneth Davey, Baohua Li, Zaiping Guo
Summary: The authors propose a hybrid electrolyte that incorporates strongly polar molecules to strengthen the water O-H bonds, thus reducing water activity and improving the electrochemical performance of aqueous zinc-ion batteries.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Xu Yang, Bao Zhang, Yao Tian, Yao Wang, Zhiqiang Fu, Dong Zhou, Hao Liu, Feiyu Kang, Baohua Li, Chunsheng Wang, Guoxiu Wang
Summary: State-of-the-art electrolytes limit the cycle life of halide-ion batteries. Here, the authors report a fluorinated low-polar gel polymer electrolyte capable of improving the stability of the electrolyte and electrode interphases to boost battery performance.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Yanchun Yin, Yuanhui Zhu, Yang Chen, Yue Qiu, Biao Chen
Summary: In this paper, a large-scale stratum model and a small-scale roadway model were established using the finite element method. The optimal loading mode of the roadway model and its applicability under different roof-sidewall stiffness ratios were studied. The simulation accuracy of the roadway model was evaluated by comparing the stress and strain field distribution with those of the stratum models. The results showed that the small-scale roadway model exhibited better similarity with the stratum model under displacement load rather than stress load. Additionally, a simulation method for the small-scale roadway model suitable for the occurrence and control of surrounding rock disasters was proposed.
ENERGY EXPLORATION & EXPLOITATION
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Hong Li, Mingyan Chuai, Xiao Xiao, Yeyang Jia, Biao Chen, Chuang Li, Zhihong Piao, Zhoujie Lao, Mengtian Zhang, Runhua Gao, Bingkai Zhang, Zhiyuan Han, Jinlong Yang, Guangmin Zhou
Summary: In this study, bimetallic phosphorus trisulfides embedded in nitrogen-doped hollow carbon nanocubes were synthesized as a host for Li-S batteries. The relationship between the catalytic activity and spin state configuration was revealed. By modifying the spin state configuration, the charge transfer and interaction with lithium polysulfides were enhanced, resulting in reduced capacity decay.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Peitao Xiao, Xiaoru Yun, Yufang Chen, Xiaowei Guo, Peng Gao, Guangmin Zhou, Chunman Zheng
Summary: Lithium-based rechargeable batteries have outstanding electrochemical performance, and electrolytes play a crucial role in these batteries. This review summarizes the development of electrolytes in various lithium-based rechargeable batteries and highlights the effects of interactions between cations, anions, and solvents on solvation chemistry, electrochemical performance, and redox mechanisms.
CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Miaolun Jiao, Lixin Dai, Hong-Rui Ren, Mengtian Zhang, Xiao Xiao, Boran Wang, Jinlong Yang, Bilu Liu, Guangmin Zhou, Hui-Ming Cheng
Summary: The development of flexible zinc-air batteries (FZABs) for wearable electronic devices has attracted attention. The optimization of gel electrolyte, a key component in FZABs, is crucial for compatibility with Zn anode and adaptability to severe climates. In this study, a polarized gel electrolyte of polyacrylamide-sodium citric (PAM-SC) is designed to suppress Zn dendrite growth and prevent water freezing and evaporating. The PAM-SC gel electrolyte exhibits high ionic conductivity and water retention, enabling FZABs to have a long cycling life at -40 degrees C.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Yang Zhao, Xiaoqian Shi, Bin Zhang, Shizhong Wei, Jiping Ma, Jianbin Lai, Guangmin Zhou, Huan Pang
Summary: Researchers have proposed a simple, efficient, and low-cost method to prepare a highly active and stable Ni3S2-Ni electrode, which shows excellent performance in hydrogen evolution. This work provides a feasible method for the one-step synthesis of transition metal compound-metal self-supporting water splitting electrodes.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY & FUELS
(2023)
