Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Mingming Wang, Yahan Meng, Yan Xu, Na Chen, Mingyan Chuai, Yuan Yuan, Jifei Sun, Zaichun Liu, Xinhua Zheng, Ziqi Zhang, Dongjun Li, Wei Chen
Summary: This study proposes and develops an all-manganese aqueous battery with high voltage and high energy density. By optimizing the electrolyte and reducing the overpotential of the Mn metal anode, a high discharge platform and long-cycle stability are achieved.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Yongqiu Xian, Bin Wang, Zifeng Lin
Summary: In this study, Ti3C2Tx MXene is shown to operate at a wide potential range in a mild AlCl3 aqueous electrolyte and retain high pseudocapacitive activity, achieving a capacity of up to 85 mAh g(-1), surpassing its performance in H2SO4 electrolyte of 78 mAh g(-1). In situ electrochemical quartz crystal microbalance results suggest that the high capacity originates from the pseudocapacitive intercalation/deintercalation of H+ instead of Al3+, providing the possibility of coupling MXene anodes with proton redox active cathodes to achieve high-energy and high-power devices.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Yichao Yan, Leyuan Zhang, Ryan Walser-Kuntz, David B. Vogt, Matthew S. Sigman, Guihua Yu, Melanie S. Sanford
Summary: This report addresses the challenge of limited redox active molecules for non-aqueous redox flow batteries through the development of an organic storage material based on the benzotriazole scaffold. The developed derivative exhibits a low redox potential, high solubility, and stable electrochemical cycling in a prototype flow battery.
CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
(2022)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yifan Xu, Tangjing Ding, Dongmei Sun, Xiulei Ji, Xiaosi Zhou
Summary: This review summarizes recent advances in potassium-ion battery (KIB) electrolytes and design strategies. The study found that organic liquid electrolytes can improve battery performance by changing salts/solvents, adding additives, and increasing concentration. Water-in-salt electrolytes and solid-state electrolytes are also potential choices for electrolytes.
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yiming Sui, Xiulei Ji
Summary: The narrow electrochemical stability window of water poses a challenge to the development of aqueous electrolytes. Unlike non-aqueous electrolytes, additional components reactions are required in aqueous electrolytes to facilitate the formation of desired solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) and cathode electrolyte interphase (CEI).
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2023)
Review
Chemistry, Physical
Zhengnan Ju, Qin Zhao, Dongliang Chao, Yang Hou, Hongge Pan, Wenping Sun, Zhongyong Yuan, Hui Li, Tianyi Ma, Dawei Su, Baohua Jia
Summary: This review highlights the strategies proposed so far to pursue high energy density aqueous batteries, focusing on various aspects such as electrolytes, electrode chemistry, cathode materials, anode materials, and battery configurations. The emerging electrochemistry and the future development of high-energy aqueous batteries are also discussed.
ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS
(2022)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yanqun Lv, Ying Xiao, Longtao Ma, Chunyi Zhi, Shimou Chen
Summary: This review presents the recent development of beyond aqueous electrolytes for Zn-ion batteries, including various types of electrolytes and the critical issues and corresponding strategies for designing beyond aqueous electrolytes.
ADVANCED MATERIALS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Buke Wu, Yongbiao Mu, Zheng Li, Ming Li, Lin Zeng, Tianshou Zhao
Summary: This paper reviews the electrolyte engineering strategies to broaden the electrochemical stability window of AZIBs and analyzes high-voltage AZIBs. The study suggests that the synergistic development of suitable electrolytes and cathode materials is crucial for achieving high-voltage AZIBs.
CHINESE CHEMICAL LETTERS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Huaping Wang, Rou Tan, Zhengxuan Yang, Yuezhan Feng, Xiaochuan Duan, Jianmin Ma
Summary: Aqueous electrolyte-based batteries have advantages such as nonflammability, low cost, high power density, and environmental friendliness, but they suffer from low energy density due to the narrow stable electrochemical window of water and electrode materials with low capacity. Developing metal anodes with high specific capacity is seen as a promising solution to enhance the energy density of these batteries.
ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS
(2021)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Ruding Zhang, Shun Wang, Shulei Chou, Huile Jin
Summary: This paper reviews the latest developments in electrode materials, electrolytes, and battery chemistry in aqueous ammonium-ion batteries (AIBs) and discusses the challenges and opportunities they face.
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
(2022)
Review
Chemistry, Physical
Shenqiu Xu, Jiawen Huang, Guanyao Wang, Yuhai Dou, Ding Yuan, Liangxu Lin, Kaifeng Qin, Kuan Wu, Hua Kun Liu, Shi-Xue Dou, Chao Wu
Summary: Aqueous Zn-metal batteries (AZMBs) have attracted significant interest as a low-cost, eco-friendly, and safe alternative to other metal-based batteries. However, challenges such as dendrite growth, hydrogen evolution reaction, and zinc corrosion and passivation still need to be addressed. Engineering the aqueous electrolytes and additives is considered a promising approach to overcome these challenges. This review provides a comprehensive summary of recent literature on aqueous electrolytes and electrolyte additives, aiming to enhance the understanding of the challenges associated with the metallic Zn anode and guide future strategies for stable AZMBs.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Xianhui Yi, Yanhong Feng, Apparao M. M. Rao, Jiang Zhou, Chengxin Wang, Bingan Lu
Summary: Aqueous electrolytes are essential for batteries due to their sustainability, greenness, and low cost. However, the reactivity of water molecules with alkali metals limits the use of high-capacity alkali-metal anodes. In this study, water molecules are confined in a carcerand-like network to create quasi-solid aqueous electrolytes (QAEs) that effectively overcome the limitations of free water molecules. The QAEs allow stable operation with alkali-metal anodes, suppressing issues such as dendrite growth, electrode dissolution, and polysulfide shuttle. The research demonstrates long-term cycling and high Coulombic efficiency of alkali-metal cells in a water-based environment, as well as the potential of full metal batteries with remarkable energy density.
ADVANCED MATERIALS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jiangchun Chen, Qiaonan Zhu, Li Jiang, Rongyang Liu, Yan Yang, Mengyao Tang, Jiawei Wang, Hua Wang, Lin Guo
Summary: This study introduces phenazine as the cathode material for AABs, allowing for co-intercalation of Al-complex and enhancing the battery's cycling performance and capacity. The flexible organic molecules show advantages over conventional inorganic materials in reducing desolvation penalty and Coulombic repulsion during the ion (de)insertion process.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2021)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jin Han, Alberto Varzi, Stefano Passerini
Summary: This Minireview comprehensively summarizes the recent advances in aqueous ammonium-ion batteries (AAIB), including cathode and anode materials as well as the electrolytes. The paper also provides a perspective on possible solutions for the current limitations of AAIBs.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Sabrina Trano, Francesca Corsini, Giuseppe Pascuzzi, Elisabetta Giove, Lucia Fagiolari, Julia Amici, Carlotta Francia, Stefano Turri, Silvia Bodoardo, Gianmarco Griffini, Federico Bella
Summary: In this study, a lignin-based electrolyte was successfully designed, which exhibited a wide stability window and high ionic conductivity, leading to significant electrochemical performance improvement in potassium batteries. This represents a milestone in utilizing renewable resources for potassium battery research.
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Yasuyuki Kondo, Takeshi Abe, Yuki Yamada
Summary: This article presents the recent progress in understanding the mechanism and kinetics of interfacial Li+ transfer in high-rate lithium-ion batteries. It reviews the reported activation energies at different interfaces, discusses the mechanism and rate-determining step of the interfacial Li+ transfer, and introduces promising strategies to reduce the activation energy.
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Zihan Ma, Xiang-Mei Shi, Shin-ichi Nishimura, Seongjae Ko, Masashi Okubo, Atsuo Yamada
Summary: This study reveals the discovery of continuous hydrogen bond networks in solid α-MoO3, which facilitate anhydrous proton transport even without structural water. The fast proton transfer and accumulation in α-MoO3 are demonstrated through experiments and first-principles calculations. By coupling with a zinc anode and a superconcentrated Zn2+/H+ electrolyte, the proton transport mechanism in anhydrous hydrogen bond networks enables the realization of an aqueous MoO3-Zn battery with large capacity, long life, and fast charge-discharge abilities.
ADVANCED MATERIALS
(2022)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Michael Wilhelm, Ruth Adam, Aman Bhardwaj, Iuliia Neumann, Sung Hun Cho, Yuki Yamada, Tohru Sekino, Jianming Tao, Zhensheng Hong, Thomas Fischer, Sanjay Mathur
Summary: This study reports the development of a photo-rechargeable battery using dual-functional materials, electrospun vanadium oxide nanofibers coated with conductive carbon. The battery exhibits high discharge capacity and photoresponsive behavior, and the carbon coating enhances the stability and capacity retention of the battery.
ADVANCED ENGINEERING MATERIALS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Akira Nasu, Atsushi Sakuda, Takuya Kimura, Minako Deguchi, Akihisa Tsuchimoto, Masashi Okubo, Atsuo Yamada, Masahiro Tatsumisago, Akitoshi Hayashi
Summary: This paper reports the use of Na2FeS2 as the host structure and high-capacity active electrode material for all-solid-state sodium batteries. The battery exhibits high capacity and long cycle life, operating reversibly for 300 cycles. The excellent electrochemical properties are derived from the anion-cation redox and rigid host structure. The reversible sulfur redox further contributes to the high capacity without capacity fading.
Article
Energy & Fuels
Seongjae Ko, Tomohiro Obukata, Tatau Shimada, Norio Takenaka, Masanobu Nakayama, Atsuo Yamada, Yuki Yamada
Summary: In this study, the authors investigate the factors affecting the reversibility of lithium-metal anodes and propose an electrolyte design to improve the cycling performance. They find that the lithium electrode potential and its association with the Li+ coordination structure play a crucial role in Coulombic efficiency and electrolyte decomposition. By enhancing ion-pairing solution structure, the authors achieve a significantly improved cycling performance.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Wojciech Olszewski, Carlo Marini, Satoshi Kajiyama, Masashi Okubo, Atsuo Yamada, Takashi Mizokawa, Naurang Lal Saini, Laura Simonelli
Summary: The local structures of Ti based MXene-type electrode materials were investigated using Ti K-edge X-ray absorption fine structure measurements. The effects of temperature on the local bond lengths and their stiffness were studied. Selective etching was found to significantly affect the local structural properties of Ti based MXene materials, resulting in increased interatomic distances and higher achievable performances. These results highlight the importance of local atomic correlations as limiting factors in the diffusion capacity of ion batteries.
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Kosuke Kawai, Masaki Fujita, Ryosei Iizuka, Atsuo Yamada, Masashi Okubo
Summary: Two-dimensional transition-metal carbides/nitrides (MXenes) have high capacitance, high-rate capability, and good cycle stability, making them ideal electrode materials for electrochemical energy storage devices. The different surface termination groups, such as -O, -OH, and -F, play an important role in the electrochemical properties of MXene electrodes.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Shin-ichi Nishimura, Akitoshi Hayashi, Atsushi Sakuda, Atsuo Yamada
Summary: The sodium ion conductor Na3-xSb1-xWxS4 exhibits exceptionally high ionic conductivity at room temperature. The crystallographic analysis reveals that the substitution of aliovalent tungsten leads to the disordering of sodium, which enhances the ionic conductivity.
ACS APPLIED ENERGY MATERIALS
(2022)
Article
Electrochemistry
Akihisa Tsuchimoto, Masashi Okubo, Atsuo Yamada
Summary: To improve the cycle performance and energy efficiency of Li-rich cathode materials with higher energy density and oxygen redox activity, it is necessary to optimize the conditions such as excess lithium, transition metal species, and cutoff voltage. This study analyzed the dominant factors in the energy density of Li-rich cathode materials by using machine learning prediction models based on well-controlled experimental data. The results showed that choosing a moderate amount of excess lithium and increasing the cobalt contents are keys to achieving high energy density in long-term cycles.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Atsuo Yamada, Atsushi Kitada, Seongjae Ko, Risa Ikeya, Yuki Yamada
Summary: Highly concentrated aqueous electrolytes have been developed by mixing two or more salts, leading to the discovery of a room-temperature Na-salt eutectic dihydrate melt with a wide potential window. The dihydrate melt enables reversible insertion/desertion of Na-ions into/from compounds located far beyond the stable potential windows of conventional aqueous electrolytes.
JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Seongjae Ko, Xiao Han, Tatau Shimada, Norio Takenaka, Yuki Yamada, Atsuo Yamada
Summary: A Co-free cathode paired with a silicon suboxide (SiOx) anode in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) can address the scarcity and supply chain risks of cobalt, leading to sustainable and high-performing LIBs.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Kosuke Kawai, Xiang-Mei Shi, Norio Takenaka, Jeonguk Jang, Benoit Mortemard de Boisse, Akihisa Tsuchimoto, Daisuke Asakura, Jun Kikkawa, Masanobu Nakayama, Masashi Okubo, Atsuo Yamada
Summary: Integrating anionic-redox with cationic-redox is a promising strategy, but hysteresis is a challenge in oxygen-redox cathodes. In this study, nonpolarizing and polarizing oxygen-redox reactions are found to coexist and compete in a specific material. Preventing the polarizing reaction is crucial for achieving nonpolarizing and energy-efficient oxygen-redox reactions.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2022)
