Liquid electrolytes for low-temperature lithium batteries: main limitations, current advances, and future perspectives

X Su, Y Xu, Y Wu, H Li, J Yang, Y Liao, R Qu… - Energy Storage …, 2023 - Elsevier
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) can now be used in almost all modern electronic devices and
electric vehicles. However, as the range of applications increases, the challenges increase …

Renewable biomass‐derived carbons for electrochemical capacitor applications

X Luo, S Chen, T Hu, Y Chen, F Li - SusMat, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Biomass is rich, renewable, sustainable, and green resources, thereby excellent raw
material for the fabrication of carbon materials. The diversity in structure and morphology of …

Catalytic defect‐repairing using manganese ions for hard carbon anode with high‐capacity and high‐initial‐Coulombic‐efficiency in sodium‐ion batteries

J Zhao, XX He, WH Lai, Z Yang, XH Liu… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hard carbon (HC) anodes have shown extraordinary promise for sodium‐ion batteries, but
are limited to their poor initial coulombic efficiency (ICE) and low practical specific capacity …

N-doped LaPO4: An effective Pt-free catalyst for electrocatalytic oxygen reduction

R Zhao, Z Chen, Q Li, X Wang, Y Tang, G Fu, H Li… - Chem Catalysis, 2022 - cell.com
This work provides a novel rare-earth-based catalyst of N-regulated lanthanum phosphate
(N-LaPO 4/C) and the corresponding rational measurement of catalytic activity for the …

Waste biomass garlic stem-derived porous carbon materials as high-capacity and long-cycling anode for lithium/sodium-ion batteries

G Shen, B Li, Y Xu, X Chen, S Katiyar, L Zhu… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Carbon materials are promising anode materials for rechargeable lithium and sodium-ion
batteries, due to their low cost, high capacity, and structural designability. In this work, we …

Biomass-derived bifunctional electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction and evolution reaction: A review

SS Sekhon, J Lee, JS Park - Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2022 - Elsevier
Oxygen electrode catalysts are important as inter-conversion of O 2 and H 2 O is crucial for
energy technologies. However, the sluggish kinetics of oxygen reduction and evolution …

Hierarchical MXene/transition metal oxide heterostructures for rechargeable batteries, capacitors, and capacitive deionization

W **, J **, Y Zhang, R Wang, Y Gong, B He, H Wang - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
2D MXenes have attracted considerable attention due to their high electronic conductivity,
tunable metal compositions, functional termination groups, low ion diffusion barriers, and …

Techno-economic and environmental sustainability prospects on biochemical conversion of agricultural and algal biomass to biofuels

A Saravanan, PR Yaashikaa, PS Kumar… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
The depletion of energy resources and environmental concerns have sped up the
development of sustainable energy by combining renewable resources. The biofuel sector …

Thermochemical conversion of agricultural waste to hydrogen, methane, and biofuels: A review

A Khan, MBK Niazi, R Ansar, Z Jahan, F Javaid… - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
With the depletion of fossil fuels, the energy crisis can now be visualized shortly. At the same
time, waste production in various fields is also on the rise. This has led to a global waste …

Turning natural herbaceous fibers into advanced materials for sustainability

P Luan, X Zhao, K Copenhaver, S Ozcan… - Advanced Fiber Materials, 2022 - Springer
Considering the growing concerns about natural resource depletion, energy inequality, and
climate crises, biomass-derived materials—the most abundant organic matter on the planet …