Peering into alloy anodes for sodium‐ion batteries: current trends, challenges, and opportunities

H Tan, D Chen, X Rui, Y Yu - Advanced Functional Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Sodium‐ion batteries (SIBs) are regarded as a complementary technology to lithium‐ion
batteries (LIBs) in the effort of searching for alternative energy solutions that are cost …

Design considerations for unconventional electrochemical energy storage architectures

A Vlad, N Singh, C Galande… - Advanced Energy …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Batteries have become fundamental building blocks for the mobility of modern society.
Continuous development of novel battery chemistries and electrode materials has nourished …

Strain Engineering of Layered Heterogeneous Structure via Self‐Evolution Confinement for Ultrahigh‐Rate Cyclic Sodium Storage

C Wang, G Li, H Qin, Z Xiao, D Wang… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
To get a robust architecture for rapid and permanent ion insertion/extraction, various
frameworks are constructed, attempting to enhance the high‐rate lifespan. However …

Electrochemomechanical degradation of high-capacity battery electrode materials

S Zhang, K Zhao, T Zhu, J Li - Progress in Materials Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Enormous efforts have been undertaken to develop rechargeable batteries with new
electrode materials that not only have superior energy and power densities, but also are …

Chemomechanical modeling of lithiation-induced failure in high-volume-change electrode materials for lithium ion batteries

S Zhang - npj Computational Materials, 2017 - nature.com
The rapidly increasing demand for efficient energy storage systems in the last two decades
has stimulated enormous efforts to the development of high-capacity, high-power, durable …

A deep reduction and partial oxidation strategy for fabrication of mesoporous Si anode for lithium ion batteries

J Liang, X Li, Z Hou, W Zhang, Y Zhu, Y Qian - ACS nano, 2016 - ACS Publications
A deep reduction and partial oxidation strategy to convert low-cost SiO2 into mesoporous Si
anode with the yield higher than 90% is provided. This strategy has advantage in efficient …

Surface-coating regulated lithiation kinetics and degradation in silicon nanowires for lithium ion battery

L Luo, H Yang, P Yan, JJ Travis, Y Lee, N Liu… - ACS …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Silicon (Si)-based materials hold promise as the next-generation anodes for high-energy
lithium (Li)-ion batteries. Enormous research efforts have been undertaken to mitigate the …

Carbon dioxide solid-phase embedding reaction of silicon-carbon nanoporous composites for lithium-ion batteries

Z Yang, L Qiu, M Zhang, Y Zhong, B Zhong… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - Elsevier
SiO 2 is one of the critical raw materials for preparing Si anode. The direct use of porous Si
made from SiO 2 in LIBs is challenging. Although carbon cladding can improve the cycling …

Lithiation of SiO2 in Li-Ion Batteries: In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Experiments and Theoretical Studies

Y Zhang, Y Li, Z Wang, K Zhao - Nano letters, 2014 - ACS Publications
Surface passivation has become a routine strategy of design to mitigate the
chemomechanical degradation of high-capacity electrodes by regulating the …

The mechanics of large-volume-change transformations in high-capacity battery materials

MT McDowell, S Xia, T Zhu - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2016 - Elsevier
High-capacity next-generation materials for Li-ion and Na-ion batteries often undergo
significant volume changes (up to∼ 300%) during reaction with Li or Na. These large …