Challenges and opportunities towards fast-charging battery materials

Y Liu, Y Zhu, Y Cui - Nature Energy, 2019 - nature.com
Extreme fast charging, with a goal of 15 minutes recharge time, is poised to accelerate mass
market adoption of electric vehicles, curb greenhouse gas emissions and, in turn, provide …

Recent advances in metal sulfides: from controlled fabrication to electrocatalytic, photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical water splitting and beyond

S Chandrasekaran, L Yao, L Deng, C Bowen… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, nanocrystals of metal sulfide materials have attracted scientific research
interest for renewable energy applications due to the abundant choice of materials with …

Elucidating the mechanism of fast Na storage kinetics in ether electrolytes for hard carbon anodes

R Dong, L Zheng, Y Bai, Q Ni, Y Li, F Wu… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The sodium storage performance of a hard carbon (HC) anode in ether electrolytes exhibits
a higher initial Coulombic efficiency (ICE) and better rate performance compared to …

Electrochemical zinc ion capacitors: fundamentals, materials, and systems

J Yin, W Zhang, NA Alhebshi, N Salah… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
An electrochemical zinc ion capacitor (ZIC) is a hybrid supercapacitor composed of a porous
carbon cathode and a zinc anode. Based on the low‐cost features of carbon and zinc metal …

Hierarchical porous silicon structures with extraordinary mechanical strength as high-performance lithium-ion battery anodes

H Jia, X Li, J Song, X Zhang, L Luo, Y He, B Li… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Porous structured silicon has been regarded as a promising candidate to overcome
pulverization of silicon-based anodes. However, poor mechanical strength of these porous …

2021 roadmap for sodium-ion batteries

N Tapia-Ruiz, AR Armstrong, H Alptekin… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Increasing concerns regarding the sustainability of lithium sources, due to their limited
availability and consequent expected price increase, have raised awareness of the …

Atomically thin materials for next-generation rechargeable batteries

D Yuan, Y Dou, Z Wu, Y Tian, KH Ye, Z Lin… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Atomically thin materials (ATMs) with thicknesses in the atomic scale (typically< 5 nm) offer
inherent advantages of large specific surface areas, proper crystal lattice distortion …

Challenges of today for Na-based batteries of the future: From materials to cell metrics

I Hasa, S Mariyappan, D Saurel, P Adelhelm… - Journal of Power …, 2021 - Elsevier
Several emerging battery technologies are currently on endeavour to take a share of the
dominant position taken by Li-ion batteries in the field of energy storage. Among them …

Graphene-based composites for electrochemical energy storage

B Wang, T Ruan, Y Chen, F Jin, L Peng, Y Zhou… - Energy storage …, 2020 - Elsevier
Since the first exfoliation in 2004, graphene has been widely researched in many fields of
materials engineering due to its highly appealing properties. Recently, graphene-based …

The chemistry and promising applications of graphene and porous graphene materials

H Huang, H Shi, P Das, J Qin, Y Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Graphene and graphene oxide (GO), as wonder materials, have penetrated nearly every
field of research. One of their most attractive features is the functionality and assembly of …