Fundamentals, status and challenges of direct recycling technologies for lithium ion batteries

H Ji, J Wang, J Ma, HM Cheng, G Zhou - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Advancement in energy storage technologies is closely related to social development.
However, a significant conflict has arisen between the explosive growth in battery demand …

Electrochemical ion insertion from the atomic to the device scale

A Sood, AD Poletayev, DA Cogswell… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Electrochemical ion insertion involves coupled ion–electron transfer reactions, transport of
guest species and redox of the host. The hosts are typically anisotropic solids with 2D …

Understanding intercalation chemistry for sustainable aqueous zinc–manganese dioxide batteries

Y Yuan, R Sharpe, K He, C Li, MT Saray, T Liu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Rechargeable aqueous Zn–MnO2 technology combines one of the oldest battery
chemistries with favourable sustainability characteristics, including safety, cost and …

Lithium extraction from seawater through pulsed electrochemical intercalation

C Liu, Y Li, D Lin, PC Hsu, B Liu, G Yan, T Wu, Y Cui… - Joule, 2020 - cell.com
It is highly attractive to develop efficient methods to directly extract Li from seawater to
secure the supply of Li. However, high concentration of Na in the seawater poses a great …

Toward high‐performance hybrid Zn‐based batteries via deeply understanding their mechanism and using electrolyte additive

J Hao, J Long, B Li, X Li, S Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aqueous hybrid Zn‐based batteries (ZIBs), as a highly promising alternative to lithium‐ion
batteries for grid application, have made considerable progress recently. However, few …

Guiding the design of heterogeneous electrode microstructures for Li‐ion batteries: microscopic imaging, predictive modeling, and machine learning

H Xu, J Zhu, DP Finegan, H Zhao, X Lu… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Electrochemical and mechanical properties of lithium‐ion battery materials are heavily
dependent on their 3D microstructure characteristics. A quantitative understanding of the …

Redox Chemistry and the Role of Trapped Molecular O2 in Li-Rich Disordered Rocksalt Oxyfluoride Cathodes

R Sharpe, RA House, MJ Clarke… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
In the search for high energy density cathodes for next-generation lithium-ion batteries, the
disordered rocksalt oxyfluorides are receiving significant attention due to their high capacity …

Acid-free mechanochemical process to enhance the selective recycling of spent LiFePO4 batteries

Q Zhang, E Fan, J Lin, S Sun, X Zhang, R Chen… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the large-scale application of LiFePO 4 (LFP) in energy storage and electric vehicles,
the recycling of spent lithium LFP batteries has gained more attention. However, recycling …

Effect of crystallite geometries on electrochemical performance of porous intercalation electrodes by multiscale operando investigation

Y Luo, Y Bai, A Mistry, Y Zhang, D Zhao, S Sarkar… - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
Lithium-ion batteries are yet to realize their full promise because of challenges in the design
and construction of electrode architectures that allow for their entire interior volumes to be …

Application of phase-field method in rechargeable batteries

Q Wang, G Zhang, Y Li, Z Hong, D Wang… - npj Computational …, 2020 - nature.com
Rechargeable batteries have a profound impact on our daily life so that it is urgent to capture
the physical and chemical fundamentals affecting the operation and lifetime. The phase-field …