Rechargeable batteries for grid scale energy storage

Z Zhu, T Jiang, M Ali, Y Meng, Y **, Y Cui… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ever-increasing global energy consumption has driven the development of renewable
energy technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. Battery energy …

Recent progress and strategic perspectives of inorganic solid electrolytes: fundamentals, modifications, and applications in sodium metal batteries

J Huang, K Wu, G Xu, M Wu, S Dou, C Wu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Solid-state electrolytes (SEs) have attracted overwhelming attention as a promising
alternative to traditional organic liquid electrolytes (OLEs) for high-energy-density sodium …

Tuning the solvation structure with salts for stable sodium-metal batteries

J He, A Bhargav, L Su, J Lamb, J Okasinski, W Shin… - Nature Energy, 2024 - nature.com
Sodium-metal batteries are an appealing, sustainable, low-cost alternative to lithium metal
batteries due to the high abundance and theoretical specific capacity (1,165 mA hg− 1) of …

Interfacial‐catalysis‐enabled layered and inorganic‐rich SEI on hard carbon anodes in ester electrolytes for sodium‐ion batteries

M Liu, F Wu, Y Gong, Y Li, Y Li, X Feng, Q Li… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Constructing a homogenous and inorganic‐rich solid electrolyte interface (SEI) can
efficiently improve the overall sodium‐storage performance of hard carbon (HC) anodes …

Emerging chemistry for wide-temperature sodium-ion batteries

F Zhang, B He, Y **n, T Zhu, Y Zhang, S Wang… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The shortage of resources such as lithium and cobalt has promoted the development of
novel battery systems with low cost, abundance, high performance, and efficient …

Interfacial engineering to achieve an energy density of over 200 Wh kg−1 in sodium batteries

Y Li, Q Zhou, S Weng, F Ding, X Qi, J Lu, Y Li, X Zhang… - Nature Energy, 2022 - nature.com
Sodium-based batteries have attracted wide interests in the academic and industrial fields.
However, their energy density is still lower than that of Li-based batteries. Here we report an …

Electrode potential influences the reversibility of lithium-metal anodes

S Ko, T Obukata, T Shimada, N Takenaka… - Nature Energy, 2022 - nature.com
Lithium-metal batteries are a promising technology to address the emerging demand for
high-energy-density storage systems. However, their cycling encounters a low Coulombic …

Rechargeable zinc–air versus lithium–air battery: from fundamental promises toward technological potentials

X Bi, Y Jiang, R Chen, Y Du, Y Zheng… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As battery technologies that can potentially increase the energy density and expand
application scenarios of the lithium‐ion batteries, rechargeable metal‒air batteries have …

Review of multifunctional separators: Stabilizing the cathode and the anode for alkali (Li, Na, and K) metal–sulfur and selenium batteries

H Hao, T Hutter, BL Boyce, J Watt, P Liu… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Alkali metal batteries based on lithium, sodium, and potassium anodes and sulfur-based
cathodes are regarded as key for next-generation energy storage due to their high …

Wide-temperature-range sodium-metal batteries: from fundamentals and obstacles to optimization

Y Sun, JC Li, H Zhou, S Guo - Energy & Environmental Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Sodium metal with a high theoretical specific capacity (∼ 1166 mA hg− 1) and low redox
potential (− 2.71 V) shows tremendous application prospects in sodium-metal batteries …