Commercial lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries suffer from low energy density and do not meet the
growing demands of the energy storage market. Therefore, building next-generation …

High-energy consumption in our day-to-day life can be balanced not only by harvesting
pollution-free renewable energy sources, but also requires proper storage and distribution of …

DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201604569 maintained or even enhanced with increasing wettability,
there will be a big space for further improvement of supercapacitive performance. As known …

Titanium dioxide (TiO 2) has been the most intensively investigated binary transition metal
oxide in the past four decades as indicated by Figure S1. Furthermore, the annual number of …

Recently, the attention to sodium-ion batteries has been refocused on large-scale energy
storage applications, due to sodium's low cost and infinite abundance. Sodium is one of the …

This review comprehensively summarized the progresses in the design and modification of
titanium dioxide (TiO 2) nanostructures as photoelectrode materials for …

First attempts to create batteries using an ion other than the proton were done in the 1970s
with the fabrication of lithium primary cells. It was the fast development of the electronic …

Reducing cost and increasing energy density are two barriers for widespread application of
lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles. Although the cost of electric vehicle batteries has …

Materials with high ionic conductivity are urgently needed for the development of solid-state
lithium batteries. Now, an inorganic solid electrolyte is shown to have an exceptionally high …

1.1. Energy Reality and Increasing Renewable Penetration The current worldwide electric
generation capacity is estimated to be about 20 terawatt hours (TW, x 1012 watts). 1 …