Designing better electrolytes

YS Meng, V Srinivasan, K Xu - Science, 2022 - science.org
Electrolytes and the associated interphases constitute the critical components to support the
emerging battery chemistries that promise tantalizing energy but involve drastic phase and …

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 …

Anion-enrichment interface enables high-voltage anode-free lithium metal batteries

M Mao, X Ji, Q Wang, Z Lin, M Li, T Liu, C Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Aggressive chemistry involving Li metal anode (LMA) and high-voltage LiNi0. 8Mn0. 1Co0.
1O2 (NCM811) cathode is deemed as a pragmatic approach to pursue the desperate 400 …

Temperature-dependent interphase formation and Li+ transport in lithium metal batteries

S Weng, X Zhang, G Yang, S Zhang, B Ma, Q Liu… - nature …, 2023 - nature.com
High-performance Li-ion/metal batteries working at a low temperature (ie,<− 20° C) are
desired but hindered by the sluggish kinetics associated with Li+ transport and charge …

Lanthanum nitrate as aqueous electrolyte additive for favourable zinc metal electrodeposition

R Zhao, H Wang, H Du, Y Yang, Z Gao, L Qie… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Aqueous zinc batteries are appealing devices for cost-effective and environmentally
sustainable energy storage. However, the zinc metal deposition at the anode strongly …

Dynamic gel as artificial interphase layer for ultrahigh-rate and large-capacity lithium metal anode

C Chen, J Zhang, B Hu, Q Liang, X **ong - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Constructing a stable artificial solid-electrolyte interphase has become one of the most
effective strategies to overcome the poor reversibility of lithium metal anode, yet the …

Sulfolane-containing aqueous electrolyte solutions for producing efficient ampere-hour-level zinc metal battery pouch cells

Y Wang, T Wang, S Bu, J Zhu, Y Wang, R Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Aqueous zinc metal batteries are appealing candidates for grid energy storage. However,
the inadequate electrochemical reversibility of the zinc metal negative electrode inhibits the …

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 …

Growing single-crystalline seeds on lithiophobic substrates to enable fast-charging lithium-metal batteries

Z Wu, C Wang, Z Hui, H Liu, S Wang, S Yu, X **ng… - Nature Energy, 2023 - nature.com
Controlling the nucleation and growth of lithium metal is essential for realizing fast-charging
batteries. Here we report the growth of single-crystalline seeds that results in the deposition …

Fluorinated ether electrolyte with controlled solvation structure for high voltage lithium metal batteries

Y Zhao, T Zhou, T Ashirov, ME Kazzi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The development of new solvents is imperative in lithium metal batteries due to the
incompatibility of conventional carbonate and narrow electrochemical windows of ether …