MXenes for advanced separator in rechargeable batteries

Y An, Y Tian, J Feng, Y Qian - Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
As an indispensable part of electric devices, separator play a key role in electrochemical
performance. Thus, separator engineering is a promising way of constructing better energy …

Lithium Host: Advanced architecture components for lithium metal anode

Y Cheng, J Chen, Y Chen, X Ke, J Li, Y Yang… - Energy Storage …, 2021 - Elsevier
With the increasing demand for high energy and power energy storage devices, lithium
metal batteries have received widespread attention. Li metal has long been regarded as an …

Growing single-crystalline seeds on lithiophobic substrates to enable fast-charging lithium-metal batteries

Z Wu, C Wang, Z Hui, H Liu, S Wang, S Yu, X Xing… - Nature Energy, 2023 - nature.com
Controlling the nucleation and growth of lithium metal is essential for realizing fast-charging
batteries. Here we report the growth of single-crystalline seeds that results in the deposition …

Steric effect tuned ion solvation enabling stable cycling of high-voltage lithium metal battery

Y Chen, Z Yu, P Rudnicki, H Gong… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
1, 2-Dimethoxyethane (DME) is a common electrolyte solvent for lithium metal batteries.
Various DME-based electrolyte designs have improved long-term cyclability of high-voltage …

Data-driven electrolyte design for lithium metal anodes

SC Kim, ST Oyakhire, C Athanitis… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Improving Coulombic efficiency (CE) is key to the adoption of high energy density lithium
metal batteries. Liquid electrolyte engineering has emerged as a promising strategy for …

Localized high-concentration electrolytes get more localized through micelle-like structures

CM Efaw, Q Wu, N Gao, Y Zhang, H Zhu, K Gering… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Liquid electrolytes in batteries are typically treated as macroscopically homogeneous ionic
transport media despite having a complex chemical composition and atomistic solvation …

High-entropy electrolytes for practical lithium metal batteries

SC Kim, J Wang, R Xu, P Zhang, Y Chen, Z Huang… - Nature Energy, 2023 - nature.com
Electrolyte engineering is crucial for improving battery performance, particularly for lithium
metal batteries. Recent advances in electrolytes have greatly improved cyclability by …

Structural transformation in a sulfurized polymer cathode to enable long-life rechargeable lithium–sulfur batteries

S Wang, B Lu, D Cheng, Z Wu, S Feng… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Sulfurized polyacrylonitrile (SPAN) represents a class of sulfur-bonded polymers, which
have shown thousands of stable cycles as a cathode in lithium–sulfur batteries. However …

Potentiometric measurement to probe solvation energy and its correlation to lithium battery cyclability

SC Kim, X Kong, RA Vilá, W Huang… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The electrolyte plays a critical role in lithium-ion batteries, as it impacts almost every facet of
a battery's performance. However, our understanding of the electrolyte, especially solvation …

Reversible Solid–Solid Conversion of Sulfurized Polyacrylonitrile Cathodes in Lithium–Sulfur Batteries by Weakly Solvating Ether Electrolytes

T Ma, Y Ni, D Li, Z Zha, S Jin, W Zhang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite carbonate electrolytes exhibiting good stability to sulfurized polyacrylonitrile
(SPAN), their chemical incompatibility with lithium (Li) metal anode leads to poor …