Fundamentals, status and promise of sodium-based batteries

R Usiskin, Y Lu, J Popovic, M Law, P Balaya… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Na-based batteries have shown substantial progress in recent years and are promising
candidates for mitigating the supply risks associated with Li-based batteries. In this Review …

Pushing the limit of 3d transition metal-based layered oxides that use both cation and anion redox for energy storage

M Zhang, DA Kitchaev, Z Lebens-Higgins… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Intercalation chemistry has dominated electrochemical energy storage for decades, and
storage capacity worldwide has now reached the terawatt-hour level. State-of-the-art …

Activating lattice oxygen in layered lithium oxides through cation vacancies for enhanced urea electrolysis

WK Han, JX Wei, K Xiao, T Ouyang, X Peng… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the fact that high‐valent nickel‐based oxides exhibit promising catalytic activity for
the urea oxidation reaction (UOR), the fundamental questions concerning the origin of the …

Space‐confined metal ion strategy for carbon materials derived from cobalt benzimidazole frameworks with high desalination performance in simulated seawater

S Cao, Y Li, Y Tang, Y Sun, W Li, X Guo… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Various metal ions with different valence states (Mg2+, Al3+, Ca2+, Ti4+, Mn2+, Fe3+, Ni2+,
Zn2+, Pb2+, Ba2+, Ce4+) are successfully confined in quasi‐microcube shaped cobalt …

Tuning of lattice oxygen reactivity and scaling relation to construct better oxygen evolution electrocatalyst

ZF Huang, S Xi, J Song, S Dou, X Li, Y Du… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Developing efficient and low-cost electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction is crucial in
realizing practical energy systems for sustainable fuel production and energy storage from …

Sodium‐ion batteries paving the way for grid energy storage

HS Hirsh, Y Li, DHS Tan, M Zhang… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The recent proliferation of renewable energy generation offers mankind hope, with regard to
combatting global climate change. However, reaping the full benefits of these renewable …

Sodium transition metal oxides: the preferred cathode choice for future sodium-ion batteries?

Q Liu, Z Hu, W Li, C Zou, H Jin, S Wang… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The exploration of next-generation sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) is a worldwide concern to
replace the current commercial lithium-ion batteries, mitigating the increasing exhaustion of …

Unraveling anionic redox for sodium layered oxide cathodes: breakthroughs and perspectives

H Ren, Y Li, Q Ni, Y Bai, H Zhao, C Wu - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sodium‐ion batteries (SIBs) as the next generation of sustainable energy technologies have
received widespread investigations for large‐scale energy storage systems (EESs) and …

Li-rich cathodes for rechargeable Li-based batteries: reaction mechanisms and advanced characterization techniques

W Zuo, M Luo, X Liu, J Wu, H Liu, J Li… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Due to their high specific capacities beyond 250 mA hg− 1, lithium-rich oxides have been
considered as promising cathodes for the next generation power batteries, bridging the …

Decoupling the roles of Ni and Co in anionic redox activity of Li-rich NMC cathodes

B Li, Z Zhuo, L Zhang, A Iadecola, X Gao, J Guo… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Li [Li x Ni y Mn z Co1− x− y− z] O2 (lithium-rich NMCs) are benchmark cathode
materials receiving considerable attention due to the abnormally high capacities resulting …