Fundamentals, status and promise of sodium-based batteries

R Usiskin, Y Lu, J Popovic, M Law, P Balaya… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Na-based batteries have shown substantial progress in recent years and are promising
candidates for mitigating the supply risks associated with Li-based batteries. In this Review …

Electrolytes, SEI formation, and binders: a review of nonelectrode factors for sodium‐ion battery anodes

C Bommier, X Ji - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Through intense effort in recent years, knowledge of Na‐ion batteries has been advanced
significantly, pertaining to electrodes. Often, such progress has been accompanied by using …

Emerging era of electrolyte solvation structure and interfacial model in batteries

H Cheng, Q Sun, L Li, Y Zou, Y Wang, T Cai… - ACS Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Over the past two decades, the solid–electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer that forms on an
electrode's surface has been believed to be pivotal for stabilizing the electrode's …

Entropy‐Driven Solvation toward Low‐Temperature Sodium‐Ion Batteries with Temperature‐Adaptive Feature

C Yang, X Liu, Y Lin, L Yin, J Lu, Y You - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Salt precipitation at temperatures far above the freezing point of solvents is primarily
responsible for performance decay of rechargeable batteries at low temperature, yet is still …

Potentiometric measurement to probe solvation energy and its correlation to lithium battery cyclability

SC Kim, X Kong, RA Vilá, W Huang… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The electrolyte plays a critical role in lithium-ion batteries, as it impacts almost every facet of
a battery's performance. However, our understanding of the electrolyte, especially solvation …

Selectively tuning ionic thermopower in all-solid-state flexible polymer composites for thermal sensing

C Chi, M An, X Qi, Y Li, R Zhang, G Liu, C Lin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
There has been increasing interest in the emerging ionic thermoelectric materials with huge
ionic thermopower. However, it's challenging to selectively tune the thermopower of all-solid …

Challenge and strategies in room temperature sodium–sulfur batteries: A comparison with lithium–sulfur batteries

L Lin, C Zhang, Y Huang, Y Zhuang, M Fan, J Lin… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Metal–sulfur batteries exhibit great potential as next‐generation rechargeable batteries due
to the low sulfur cost and high theoretical energy density. Sodium–sulfur (Na–S) batteries …

Potentiometric MRI of a superconcentrated lithium electrolyte: testing the irreversible thermodynamics approach

AA Wang, AB Gunnarsdóttir, J Fawdon… - ACS Energy …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Superconcentrated electrolytes, being highly thermodynamically nonideal, provide a
stringent proving ground for continuum transport theories. Herein, we test an ostensibly …

Engineering sodium-ion solvation structure to stabilize sodium anodes: universal strategy for fast-charging and safer sodium-ion batteries

L Zhou, Z Cao, J Zhang, Q Sun, Y Wu, W Wahyudi… - Nano Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Sodium-ion batteries are promising alternatives for lithium-ion batteries due to their lower
cost caused by global sodium availability. However, the low Coulombic efficiency (CE) of the …

In Situ Pore Formation in Graphite Through Solvent Co‐Intercalation: A New Model for The Formation of Ternary Graphite Intercalation Compounds Bridging Batteries …

G Åvall, G A. Ferrero, KA Janßen… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract For Li‐ion and Na‐ion batteries, the intercalation behavior of graphite anodes is
quite different. While Li‐ions intercalate, Na‐ions only co‐intercalate with solvent molecules …