Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Meng Huang, Xuanpeng Wang, Xiong Liu, Liqiang Mai
Summary: The highly dynamic nature of grid-scale energy systems requires fast kinetics in energy storage and conversion systems. Rechargeable aqueous batteries, with their high ionic diffusivity, safety, and low cost, are a promising solution for energy storage in renewable-energy grids. Recent research has focused on developing electrode materials that enable fast ionic storage in aqueous electrolytes. This review summarizes breakthroughs in fast ionic storage in aqueous battery materials, including 1D/2D/3D and over-3D tunnel materials.
ADVANCED MATERIALS
(2022)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Zhen Huang, Xianfeng Du, Mingbo Ma, Shixin Wang, Yuehong Xie, Yi Meng, Wenzhi You, Lilong Xiong
Summary: Organic electrode materials (OEMs) have great potential in ion batteries due to their varied structural components and adaptable construction. Rechargeable aluminum-ion batteries (RAIBs) have gained attention as a new energy-storage device with high safety and low cost. This review discusses the uses of different organic materials as cathodes in RAIBs and their energy-storage mechanisms, aiming to provide design guidelines for high-capacity and stable organic cathode materials in aluminum-organic batteries.
Review
Chemistry, Physical
Fanfan Liu, Tiantian Wang, Xiaobin Liu, Li-Zhen Fan
Summary: This review summarizes the recent progress in the development of key materials for RMBs, including cathodes, anodes, and electrolytes. It discusses the potential applications and challenges of various materials in Mg batteries.
ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Asghar Aryanfar, Sajed Medlej, William A. Goddard
Summary: This study compares the branching tendencies of traditional metallic electrodes during charging, finding that brownian motion leads to the formation of randomly-branched microstructures, and analyzes the determining factors of the branching evolution.
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
(2021)
Review
Chemistry, Physical
Rana Mohtadi, Oscar Tutusaus, Timothy S. Arthur, Zhirong Zhao-Karger, Maximilian Fichtner
Summary: The passage discusses the growing interest in rechargeable Mg batteries that meet the demands for safety, sustainability, and high energy density. It highlights an unconventional research direction that aims to overcome long-standing challenges and reveal unaddressed issues in Mg batteries. The focus is on fundamental phenomena to uncover new opportunities for practical Mg batteries.
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jiashen Meng, Lujun Zhu, Aderemi B. Haruna, Kenneth I. Ozoemena, Quanquan Pang
Summary: Rechargeable aluminum batteries (RABs) are considered a promising candidate for large-scale energy storage due to their high volumetric capacity, low cost, high safety, and abundance of aluminum. However, challenges such as low specific capacity and limited cycle lifespan of cathode materials pose obstacles for practical applications of RABs. Efforts have been made to improve RABs' electrochemical performances through new cathode materials and engineered nanostructures. Understanding the charge storage mechanisms of cathode materials will pave the way for rational design of high-performance cathode materials in RABs and new opportunities for electrolyte systems.
SCIENCE CHINA-CHEMISTRY
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Zhaohui Yang, Fei Wang, Pengyu Meng, Jiayan Luo, Chaopeng Fu
Summary: Rechargeable aluminum-ion batteries with organic positive electrode materials have attracted attention due to their advantages of design flexibility and sustainable energy storage chemistry. However, challenges including high solubility, low active center utilization, and low electrical conductivity need to be addressed. This review summarizes recent advances in the development of organic positive electrodes for Al-ion batteries, and discusses strategies to improve their performance. Challenges and future research directions towards high-performance Al/organic batteries are also discussed.
ENERGY STORAGE MATERIALS
(2022)
Review
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Jihyeon Kim, Youngsu Kim, Jaekyun Yoo, Giyun Kwon, Youngmin Ko, Kisuk Kang
Summary: Transition-metal-free organic rechargeable batteries are promising alternatives to lithium-ion batteries, with potential cost-effectiveness and eco-friendliness. This review evaluates the current status of organic rechargeable batteries and discusses their potential in various post-lithium-ion-battery platforms.
NATURE REVIEWS MATERIALS
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Fangwang Ming, Hanfeng Liang, Gang Huang, Zahra Bayhan, Husam N. Alshareef
Summary: MXenes have shown great potential as electrode materials in next-generation batteries, with their unique properties and versatile applications. Researchers have proposed various comprehensive utilization methods and also provided a perspective on future research directions for MXenes and MXene-based materials.
ADVANCED MATERIALS
(2021)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Gaojing Yang, Yaxun Zhu, Qi Zhao, Zhimeng Hao, Yong Lu, Qing Zhao, Jun Chen
Summary: Organic electrode materials offer potentially sustainable production and structural tunability, but their usage in traditional nonaqueous electrolyte rechargeable batteries has safety concerns. In contrast, aqueous rechargeable batteries with organic electrode materials are gaining attention for low-cost and safe energy storage systems. This review provides a comprehensive summary of recent progress in advanced organic electrode materials for aqueous rechargeable batteries, including working principles, design strategies, and research advances. Challenges and future efforts for improving electronic conductivity and reaction kinetics are discussed.
SCIENCE CHINA-CHEMISTRY
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Applied
Jiena Weng, Qiao Xi, Xinwei Zeng, Zong-Qiong Lin, Jianfeng Zhao, Liangliang Zhang, Wei Huang
Summary: pi-Conjugated organic electrode materials are attracting attention for rechargeable batteries due to their high theoretical capacity, flexible structure designability, environmental friendliness, and abundance of elements. Essential rigid coplanar hexaazatriphenylene (HAT) building blocks with high density C=N functional groups not only facilitate energy band engineering but also enable fast kinetics, good cycling stability, and low-cost production.
Review
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Zhiyang Xue, Zhengyuan Gao, Xiangyu Zhao
Summary: This review article focuses on the recent progress in electrode materials for halogen storage in battery technologies based on cation, anion, or dual-ion transfer. It covers various materials such as metal (oxy)halides, layered double hydroxides, MXenes, graphite-based materials, and organic materials with carbon or nitrogen redox centers. The challenges and mechanisms of halogen storage in these electrode materials in halide-ion batteries (HIB) and dual-ion batteries (DIB) are summarized and analyzed, providing insights for the development of high-performance halogen storage electrode materials for rechargeable batteries.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS
(2022)
Review
Electrochemistry
Xiudong Chen, Xiaojie Yin, Junaid Aslam, Weiwei Sun, Yong Wang
Summary: This review summarizes the recent progress in organic electrodes for use in rechargeable lithium organic batteries (LOBs). Although organic materials have achieved significant results as battery electrodes in the past 10 years, they are still not widely recognized due to their low electronic conductivity and solubility in organic electrolytes. The article analyzes the effect of various organic functionalities on electrochemical performance and proposes future design principles and development trends for LOBs. Additionally, the unique two-dimensional covalent organic framework with extensive pi conjugated structure and lithium storage mechanisms is highlighted as a promising alternative to metal-based electrode materials.
ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Masashi Kotobuki, Binggong Yan, Li Lu
Summary: Rechargeable magnesium batteries (RMBs) are promising for their potential in high energy density, low cost, and high safety. However, technological breakthroughs are required for commercialization. Cathode materials are crucial for the commercialization of RMBs as they directly affect energy and power densities. The main challenge lies in the poor diffusion of Mg2+ ions in electrode materials due to strong interaction with host materials. Various attempts have been made to overcome this issue, including synthesis of new materials, morphological modifications, doping, substitution, and addition of second components. This review provides additional information on recent developments in cathode materials for RMBs in the past 3-4 years, as well as perspectives and challenges for future development.
ENERGY STORAGE MATERIALS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Jie Xiao, Yun Huang, Yuwei Ma, Chengwei Li, Lei Fu, Wenping Zeng, Xichang Wang, Xing Li, Mingshan Wang, Bingshu Guo, Yuanhua Lin, Haijun Cao
Summary: Due to their advantages of low cost, friendly environment, strong sustainability, flexible design and high electrical activity, organic electrode active materials are widely used in the research of electrochemical energy storage devices. This paper reviews the reaction mechanism of organic active materials and introduces their application in organic battery and aqueous battery, as well as the strategy to improve electrochemical performance. Lastly, the key problems and future research directions of applying organic active materials in batteries are discussed.
ENERGY STORAGE MATERIALS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Kathryn Holguin, Kaiqiang Qin, Ethan Phillip Kamphaus, Fu Chen, Lei Cheng, Gui-Liang Xu, Khalil Amine, Chao Luo
Summary: Tailoring the molecular structures of organic electrode materials (OEMs) in Na-ion batteries can improve their performance, but the effect of substitution rules on specific capacity and working potential is still unclear. This study examines three sodium carboxylates with selective N substitution or extended conjugation structure to establish substitution rules for high-capacity OEMs, and achieves extended cycle life and feasibility of all-organic batteries through rational host design and electrolyte modulation.
JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Yunan Qin, Kathryn Holguin, Dillon Fehlau, Chao Luo, Tao Gao
Summary: This work reports the first nonaqueous Mg flow battery with a polymer catholyte, demonstrating the feasibility of Mg flow batteries and providing a unique direction for flow battery research.
ACS APPLIED ENERGY MATERIALS
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Lin Ma, Jenel Vatamanu, Nathan T. Hahn, Travis P. Pollard, Oleg Borodin, Valeri Petkov, Marshall A. Schroeder, Yang Ren, Michael S. Ding, Chao Luo, Jan L. Allen, Chunsheng Wang, Kang Xu
Summary: Research shows that using methanol as an electrolyte solvent in rechargeable zinc metal batteries improves performance and stability, effectively solving issues in the battery, and has good cycle life at extreme temperatures.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Jinghao Huang, Kachief I. E. Callender, Kaiqiang Qin, Michael Girgis, Mikell Paige, Zhenzhen Yang, Andre Z. Clayborne, Chao Luo
Summary: This study explores the impact of different halogen atoms on the electrochemical performance of carboxylate-based organic anodes for Na-ion batteries. The fluorinated carboxylate anode exhibits superior specific capacity, cycle life, and rate capability, making it a promising choice for stable and sustainable NIBs.
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
(2022)
Article
Materials Science, Ceramics
Miaoxian Guo, Jiabao Tao, Chongjun Wu, Chao Luo, Zhijian Lin
Summary: This paper builds a single abrasive particle model and a constitutive model to study the mechanical behavior and surface damage phenomena of Cf/SiC composite in high-speed grinding process. The results show that fiber direction, interface strength, grinding speed, and depth have a significant impact on the properties and surface quality of composite materials.
CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Mengjie Li, Robert Paul Hicks, Zifeng Chen, Chao Luo, Juchen Guo, Chunsheng Wang, Yunhua Xu
Summary: Organic batteries using redox-active polymers and small organic compounds are promising for next-generation energy storage devices due to their abundance, environmental benignity, and diverse nature of organic resources. However, the correlation between electrolyte structure and battery performance has received less attention. This review discusses the prospects and challenges of organic batteries, with a focus on electrolytes. The differences between organic and inorganic batteries in terms of electrolyte requirements and charge storage mechanisms are elucidated, and different types of electrolytes and their components, concentrations, additives, and applications in organic batteries are introduced.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Kaiqiang Qin, Jacqueline V. Nguyen, Zhenzhen Yang, Chao Luo
Summary: The durability of anode-free Li metal batteries is limited by undesired Li plating/stripping irreversibility, uncontrollable Li dendrite growth, and parasitic reactions. To address these challenges, a stable and robust SEI is crucial, and an advanced electrolyte with LiNO3 is developed to construct a passivation layer on the current collector. The synergistic effect of LiF and LixNyOz in the passivation layer enables a high Coulombic efficiency, and the anode-free Li metal pouch cell shows improved capacity retention and safety.
MATERIALS TODAY ENERGY
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Jinghao Huang, Shi Li, Eric Youngsam Kim, Lei Cheng, Gui-Liang Xu, Khalil Amine, Chunsheng Wang, Chao Luo
Summary: Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are a promising alternative to lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) due to their low cost, abundance, and high sustainability of sodium resources. To develop high-energy and long-life SIBs, the issue of rapid capacity decay in high-capacity electrodes needs to be addressed. This study employs tetrahydroxy-1,4-benzoquinone disodium salt (TBDS) as a cathode material, which can self-heal cracks through hydrogen bonding. The self-healing TBDS demonstrates a long cycle life and high rate capability, making it a promising candidate for high-energy and long-cycle-life SIBs.
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Chao Luo
Summary: This feature article summarizes the potential of redox-active organic/polymeric materials and carbon/small-sulfur composites as electrode materials for affordable, lightweight, and sustainable batteries. It provides an in-depth discussion of research related to organic batteries and Li-S batteries based on organic/polymeric/sulfur materials for next-generation sustainable energy storage. The article covers the challenges, reaction mechanisms, strategies, approaches, and developments of organic batteries and LSBs, offering guidance for rational structure design and performance optimization.
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Motahareh Mohammadiroudbari, Jinghao Huang, Eric Youngsam Kim, Zhenzhen Yang, Fu Chen, Chao Luo
Summary: This work presents redox-active porous polymers as promising organic electrode materials for alkali-ion batteries. The bipolar polymers with extended conjugation structures and small pore size exhibit superior electrochemical performance in NIBs and KIBs.
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Physical
Rishivandhiga Jayakumar, Daniel M. Harrison, Jun Xu, Arun Vishnu Suresh Babu, Chao Luo, Lin Ma
Summary: Despite extensive research efforts, fundamental scientific questions still obscure the commercial prospects of aqueous rechargeable zinc metal batteries (RZMBs), especially regarding the properties and behaviors of the electrode-electrolyte interphase. In this review, a comprehensive overview is provided on the formation mechanisms and characteristics of the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) and cathode electrolyte interphase (CEI) in aqueous RZMBs. State-of-the-art techniques for characterizing the SEI/CEI are summarized to reveal the correlation between the interphases' functionalities and electrochemical performances. Future research directions exploring the evolution of aqueous SEI/CEI with pH and temperature, as well as studying SEI/CEI for high-energy-density and long-lifetime RZMBs, are proposed.
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jinghao Huang, Shi Li, You Wang, Eric Youngsam Kim, Zhenzhen Yang, Dongchang Chen, Lei Cheng, Chao Luo
Summary: This study investigates the impact of geometric structures on the electrochemical performance of carboxylate anode materials in Na-ion batteries by designing and synthesizing planar and twisted organic carboxylates. The results show that the carboxylate compound with a planar structure outperforms the twisted compounds in terms of specific capacity, cycle life, and rate capability. Furthermore, high-temperature all-organic batteries based on the planar carboxylate anode exhibit exceptional electrochemical performance.
