Advanced aqueous proton batteries: working mechanism, key materials, challenges and prospects

JL Yang, JM Cao, XX Zhao, KY Zhang, SH Zheng… - EnergyChem, 2022 - Elsevier
With the advantages of high safety and environmental friendliness, aqueous batteries have
shown beneficial application scenarios in the field of large-scale energy storage. Compared …

Insights into ionic liquids: From Z-bonds to quasi-liquids

Y Wang, H He, C Wang, Y Lu, K Dong, F Huo, S Zhang - Jacs Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ionic liquids (ILs) hold great promise in the fields of green chemistry, environmental science,
and sustainable technology due to their unique properties, such as a tailorable structure, the …

[HTML][HTML] Stepwise taming of triplet excitons via multiple confinements in intrinsic polymers for long-lived room-temperature phosphorescence

L Gao, J Huang, L Qu, X Chen, Y Zhu, C Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Polymeric materials exhibiting room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) show a promising
application potential. However, the conventional ways of preparing such materials are …

Binder‐Induced Ultrathin SEI for Defect‐Passivated Hard Carbon Enables Highly Reversible Sodium‐Ion Storage

W Li, X Guo, K Song, J Chen, J Zhang… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hard carbon is one of the most promosing anodes for resource‐rich sodium‐ion batteries.
However, an unsatisfactory solid–electrolyte‐interphase formed by irreversible electrolyte …

[HTML][HTML] Short hydrogen-bond network confined on COF surfaces enables ultrahigh proton conductivity

B Shi, X Pang, S Li, H Wu, J Shen, X Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The idea of spatial confinement has gained widespread interest in myriad applications.
Especially, the confined short hydrogen-bond (SHB) network could afford an attractive …

A versatile hydrogel network–repairing strategy achieved by the covalent-like hydrogen bond interaction

Z Han, P Wang, Y Lu, Z Jia, S Qu, W Yang - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Hydrogen bond engineering is widely exploited to impart stretchability, toughness, and self-
healing capability to hydrogels. However, the enhancement effect of conventional hydrogen …

Designing Quinone‐Based Anodes with Rapid Kinetics for Rechargeable Proton Batteries

X Yang, Y Ni, Y Lu, Q Zhang, J Hou… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Quinone compounds, which are capable of accommodating proton (H+), are emerging
electrodes in aqueous batteries. However, the storage mechanism of proton in quinone …

Kinetic mechanisms of methane hydrate replacement and carbon dioxide hydrate reorganization

Z Li, B Gan, Z Li, H Zhang, D Wang, Y Zhang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
The carbon dioxide replacement is an ideal way to mine natural gas hydrates. However,
current challenges of low replacement efficiency and immature technology compromise its …

Spacer‐Engineered Ionic Channels in Covalent Organic Framework Membranes toward Ultrafast Proton Transport

B Shi, X Pang, B Lyu, H Wu, J Shen, J Guan… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Side‐chain engineering of covalent organic frameworks as advanced ion conductors is a
critical issue to be explored. Herein, ionic covalent organic framework membranes (iCOFMs) …

Urea as a hydrogen bond producer for fabricating mechanically very strong hydrogels

Y Wu, Y Shi, H Wang - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen bonding plays a very important role in the construction and stabilization of natural
and synthetic polymeric materials. Urea is generally considered and used as a hydrogen …