Fluids and electrolytes under confinement in single-digit nanopores

NR Aluru, F Aydin, MZ Bazant, D Blankschtein… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Confined fluids and electrolyte solutions in nanopores exhibit rich and surprising physics
and chemistry that impact the mass transport and energy efficiency in many important …

Carbon electrodes for capacitive technologies

P Ratajczak, ME Suss, F Kaasik, F Béguin - Energy Storage Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
An overview of capacitive technologies based on carbon materials (energy storage in
electrical double-layer capacitors (EDLCs), capacitive deionization (CDI), energy harvesting …

Critical knowledge gaps in mass transport through single-digit nanopores: A review and perspective

S Faucher, N Aluru, MZ Bazant… - The Journal of …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Not all nanopores are created equal. By definition, nanopores have characteristic diameters
or conduit widths between∼ 1 and 100 nm. However, the narrowest of such pores, perhaps …

New perspectives on the charging mechanisms of supercapacitors

AC Forse, C Merlet, JM Griffin… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Supercapacitors (or electric double-layer capacitors) are high-power energy storage devices
that store charge at the interface between porous carbon electrodes and an electrolyte …

Atomic-scale ion transistor with ultrahigh diffusivity

Y Xue, Y Xia, S Yang, Y Alsaid, KY Fong, Y Wang… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Biological ion channels rapidly and selectively gate ion transport through atomic-scale filters
to maintain vital life functions. We report an atomic-scale ion transistor exhibiting ultrafast …

Ionic liquid‐based redox active electrolytes for supercapacitors

L Sun, K Zhuo, Y Chen, Q Du… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Supercapacitors (SCs) are fascinating energy storage devices due to their delivery of
exceptional power density and long cycling stability. Unfortunately, their practical …

Structure and dynamics of nanoconfined water and aqueous solutions

HR Corti, GA Appignanesi, MC Barbosa… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
This review is devoted to discussing recent progress on the structure, thermodynamic,
reactivity, and dynamics of water and aqueous systems confined within different types of …

Understanding Sorption of Aqueous Electrolytes in Porous Carbon by NMR Spectroscopy

D Lyu, K Märker, Y Zhou, EW Zhao… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ion adsorption at solid–water interfaces is crucial for many electrochemical processes
involving aqueous electrolytes including energy storage, electrochemical separations, and …

Nanoconfined space: Revisiting the charge storage mechanism of electric double layer capacitors

J Tan, Z Li, M Ye, J Shen - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022 - ACS Publications
The electric double layer capacitor (EDLC) has been recognized as one of the most
appealing electrochemical energy storage devices. Nanoporous materials with relatively …

Operando visualisation of battery chemistry in a sodium-ion battery by 23Na magnetic resonance imaging

JM Bray, CL Doswell, GE Pavlovskaya, L Chen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Sodium-ion batteries are a promising battery technology for their cost and sustainability. This
has led to increasing interest in the development of new sodium-ion batteries and new …