Progress and perspectives of liquid metal batteries

S Wu, X Zhang, R Wang, T Li - Energy Storage Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
The increasing demands for the penetration of renewable energy into the grid urgently call
for low-cost and large-scale energy storage technologies. With an intrinsic dendrite-free …

Recent advances in the modeling of fundamental processes in liquid metal batteries

D Agarwal, R Potnuru, C Kaushik, VR Darla… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Liquid Metal Batteries (LMBs) have a potential to emerge as a cost-effective
solution for grid-scale energy storage to overcome the intermittency of renewable energy …

Exploration of Metal/Ti3C2 MXene-derived composites as anode for high-performance zinc-ion supercapacitor

Z Li, D Guo, D Wang, M Sun, H Sun - Journal of Power Sources, 2021 - Elsevier
Following graphene, another two-dimensional transition metal carbide (Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene)
with unique properties has been widely used in the field of electrochemical energy storage …

[HTML][HTML] Fluid mechanics of Na-Zn liquid metal batteries

C Duczek, GM Horstmann, W Ding… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Liquid metal batteries have been introduced as promising option to address the needs for
new energy storage technologies. Currently, batteries based on sodium and zinc are under …

[HTML][HTML] Mass transport induced asymmetry in charge/discharge behavior of liquid metal batteries

P Personnettaz, S Landgraf, M Nimtz, N Weber… - Electrochemistry …, 2019 - Elsevier
Mass and charge transport in liquid metal batteries are closely intertwined because of the
fully liquid interior of the cells. We found that charging and discharging cycles may show …

Solutal buoyancy and electrovortex flow in liquid metal batteries

W Herreman, S Bénard, C Nore, P Personnettaz… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Solutal buoyancy has a large impact on the flow of the alloy phase composing the positive
electrode in liquid metal batteries. During discharge solutal buoyancy creates a stabilizing …

Simulation of potential and species distribution in a Li|| Bi liquid metal battery using coupled meshes

C Duczek, N Weber, OE Godinez-Brizuela, T Weier - Electrochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work a 1D finite volume based model using coupled meshes is introduced to capture
potential and species distribution throughout the discharge process in a lithium–bismuth …

Numerical simulation of electrovortex flows in cylindrical fluid layers and liquid metal batteries

W Herreman, C Nore, P Ziebell Ramos, L Cappanera… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
We use the multiphase magnetohydrodynamic code SFEMaNS to study the generation of
electrovortex flows in liquid metal batteries. We first reproduce some well known results in a …

[HTML][HTML] A yolk-shell eGaSn@ Void@ SiO2 nanodroplet design for high-performance cathodes in room temperature liquid metal batteries

K Wang, J Hu, T Chen, K Wang, Z Deng, J Wu… - Composites Part B …, 2023 - Elsevier
Gallium-based liquid alloys that exhibit high capacity and self-healing properties have been
demonstrated to be promising cathodes for room temperature liquid metal batteries …

Layer coupling between solutal and thermal convection in liquid metal batteries

P Personnettaz, TS Klopper, N Weber… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
For longer than one decade, liquid metal batteries (LMBs) are developed with the primary
aim to provide economic stationary energy storage. Featuring two liquid metal electrodes …