Challenges and recent progress in fast-charging lithium-ion battery materials

J He, J Meng, Y Huang - Journal of Power Sources, 2023 - Elsevier
Fast charging of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is one of the key factors to limit the widespread
application of electric vehicles, especially when compared to the rapid refueling of …

Capacitive contribution matters in facilitating high power battery materials toward fast-charging alkali metal ion batteries

T He, X Kang, F Wang, J Zhang, T Zhang… - Materials Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the past few decades, electrochemical energy storage systems, represented by alkali
metal ion batteries and supercapacitors, have developed rapidly against the background of …

Advances in carbon materials for sodium and potassium storage

M Liu, Y Wang, F Wu, Y Bai, Y Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decades, ground‐breaking techniques and transformative progress have been
achieved on exploring alternative battery candidates beyond lithium‐ion batteries, among …

Engineering of the crystalline lattice of hard carbon anodes toward practical potassium‐ion batteries

L Zhong, W Zhang, S Sun, L Zhao… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hard carbons have attracted increased interest as an alternative of graphite for the anodes
of potassium‐ion batteries (PIBs). However, the practical applications of hard carbon anodes …

Recent experimental and theoretical advances in the design and science of high-entropy alloy nanoparticles

W Al Zoubi, RAK Putri, MR Abukhadra, YG Ko - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
High-entropy alloy nanoparticles (HEA-NPs) hold unrestricted promise for various
applications in an unlimited chemical compositional space, as shown in recent years. These …

Growth of uniform CuCo2O4 porous nanosheets and nanowires for high-performance hybrid supercapacitors

D Liu, Y Liu, X Liu, C Xu, J Zhu, H Chen - Journal of Energy Storage, 2022 - Elsevier
In this work, uniform CuCo 2 O 4 nanowires (CCO-NWs) and nanosheets (CCO-NSs) were
directly grown on the stainless-steel foil via a hydrothermal process with a post calcination …

Research progress on carbon materials as negative electrodes in sodium‐and potassium‐ion batteries

Y Zhu, Y Wang, Y Wang, T Xu, P Chang - Carbon Energy, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon materials, including graphite, hard carbon, soft carbon, graphene, and carbon
nanotubes, are widely used as high‐performance negative electrodes for sodium‐ion and …

Understanding synthesis–structure–performance correlations of nanoarchitectured activated carbons for electrochemical applications and carbon capture

S Zhang, M Zheng, Y Tang, R Zang… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Activated carbons are one of the most important classes of high‐surface‐area porous
materials. Owing to their unique structure, low price, and large‐scale production technology …

Anion chemistry in energy storage devices

Z Huang, X Li, Z Chen, P Li, X Ji, C Zhi - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Anions serve as an essential component of electrolytes, whose effects have long been
ignored. However, since the 2010s, we have seen a considerable increase of anion …

Redox‐Active Metaphosphate‐Like Terminals Enable High‐Capacity MXene Anodes for Ultrafast Na‐Ion Storage

B Sun, Q Lu, K Chen, W Zheng, Z Liao… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D transition metal carbides and/or nitrides, so‐called MXenes, are noted as ideal
fast‐charging cation‐intercalation electrode materials, which nevertheless suffer from limited …