Design strategies and research progress for Water-in-Salt electrolytes

D Xiao, L Zhang, Z Li, H Dou, X Zhang - Energy Storage Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Electrolyte plays an essential role in ion transport among all electrochemical energy storage
systems (EESs). Water-in-Salt (WIS) electrolyte as a novel aqueous electrolyte has attracted …

Establishing a unified framework for ion solvation and transport in liquid and solid electrolytes

DJ Siegel, L Nazar, YM Chiang, C Fang, NP Balsara - Trends in Chemistry, 2021 - cell.com
Electrolytes used in rechargeable batteries must enable rapid translation of the working ion
between macroscopically separated electrodes. These electrolytes are, however, usually …

Water-in-salt LiTFSi aqueous electrolytes. 1. Liquid structure from combined molecular dynamics simulation and experimental studies

Y Zhang, NHC Lewis, J Mars, G Wan… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The concept of water-in-salt electrolytes was introduced recently, and these systems have
been successfully applied to yield extended operation voltage and hence significantly …

A sobering examination of the feasibility of aqueous aluminum batteries

GR Pastel, Y Chen, TP Pollard… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Aqueous aluminum (Al) batteries are posited to be a cheap and energy dense alternative to
conventional Li-ion chemistries, but an aqueous electrolyte mediating trivalent aluminum …

Pulsed field gradient nuclear magnetic resonance and diffusion analysis in battery research

KS Han, JD Bazak, Y Chen, TR Graham… - Chemistry of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Pulsed-field gradient nuclear magnetic resonance (PFG-NMR) is a widely used method for
determining the diffusion coefficient of ions and molecules both in the bulk and when …

Water-In-Salt LiTFSI Aqueous Electrolytes (2): Transport Properties and Li+ Dynamics Based on Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Y Zhang, EJ Maginn - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2021 - ACS Publications
The transport properties of water-in-salt lithium bis (trifluoromethane sulfonyl) imide (LiTFSI)
aqueous electrolytes were studied using classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. At …

2D nanochannels boosting ionic conductivity of zinc-ion “water-in-salt” electrolyte for wearable micro-supercapacitor

Y Wang, T Yun, X Wang, B Yao, Z Ye, X Peng - Materials Today Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
Energy storage units on a microscale are critical for the miniaturization of portable and
highly integrated electronic devices. Rechargeable micro-supercapacitors with high power …

Insight into the nanostructure of “water in salt” solutions: A SAXS/WAXS study on imide-based lithium salts aqueous solutions

X Liu, SC Lee, S Seifer, RE Winans, L Cheng… - Energy Storage …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract “Water-in-salt” electrolyte (WISE) series have been studied for lithium-ion batteries
and supercapacitor applications, but so far, most of the focus has been on the LiTFSI salt …

Enhanced ion conductivity of “water-in-salt” electrolytes by nanochannel membranes

Y Wang, X Hao, Y Kang, M Dong, Z Fang… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Understanding ion transport in electrolytes is fundamentally significant in nanofluidic,
energy, and environmental sciences. Enhanced ion transport is widely observed in dilute …

Two-Step Mechanism for Halogen Intercalation in Graphite Enabled by Aqueous Biphasic Systems

D Degoulange, G Rousse, A Grimaud - ACS Energy Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
The electrification of our society requires safer and longer-lasting batteries, for which
modular electrolytes, such as aqueous biphasic systems (ABS), are being developed. ABS …