Extending the performance limit of anodes: insights from diffusion kinetics of alloying anodes

YS Choi, DO Scanlon, JC Lee - Advanced Energy Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Alloying anodes have long attracted attention as promising candidate electrodes for
application in grid‐level energy storage systems owing to their high energy capacity …

Mesocrystallinely stabilized lithium storage in high-entropy oxides

W Wang, W Song, Y Li, Y Guo, K Yang, L Yu, F Xie… - Nano Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
High-entropy oxides (HEOs) have received growing recognition as an anode candidate for
lithium-ion batteries, primarily attributed to their decent lithium storage capabilities and high …

Air‐stable lithium spheres produced by electrochemical plating

T Yang, P Jia, Q Liu, L Zhang, C Du, J Chen… - Angewandte …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Lithium metal is an ideal anode for next‐generation lithium batteries owing to its very high
theoretical specific capacity of 3860 mAh g− 1 but very reactive upon exposure to ambient …

Air stable lithium microspheres prelithiation reagents for Li-ion batteries synthesized via electroplating

X Li, Y Li, Y Tang, L Zhang, J Huang - Journal of Power Sources, 2021 - Elsevier
Prelithiation is a critical strategy in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) to compensate the active
lithium loss due to the low Coulombic efficiency (CE) caused by the formation of solid …

In situ imaging polysulfides electrochemistry of Li-S batteries in a hollow carbon nanotubule wet electrochemical cell

Z Wang, Y Tang, X Fu, J Wang, Z Peng… - … Applied Materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Understanding polysulfide electrochemistry is critical for mitigation of the polysulfide shuttle
effect in Li-S batteries. However, in situ imaging polysulfides evolution in Li-S batteries has …

Electrochemical solid-state amorphization in the immiscible Cu-Li system

M Sun, J Wei, Z Xu, Q Huang, Y Zhao, W Wang, X Bai - Science bulletin, 2018 - Elsevier
As a typical immiscible binary system, copper (Cu) and lithium (Li) show no alloying and
chemical intermixing under normal circumstances. Here we show that, when decreasing Cu …

The lightest 2D nanomaterial: freestanding ultrathin Li nanosheets by in situ nanoscale electrochemistry

M Sun, N Stolte, J Wang, J Wei, P Chen, Z Xu, W Wang… - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As the lightest solid element and also the simplest metal, lithium (Li) is one of the best
representations of quasi‐free electron model in both bulk form and the reduced dimensions …

Suppressing volume change and in situ electrochemical atom force microscopy observation during the lithiation/delithiation process for CuO nanorod array electrodes

Y Chen, X Peng, X Fan, Q Yu, G Zhao, Y Lin… - Journal of Solid State …, 2019 - Springer
A big challenge in the high-performance transition metal oxide anode for lithium-ion
batteries (LIBs) is relieving the volume changes during the lithiation/delithiation. In this work …

In-situ observation of electrochemically driven Kirkendall effect induced volume shrinkage of CuO nanowires during potassiation

Y Tang, L Zhang, Y Tang, Y Li, Q Liu, X Wang, T Zhang… - Materials Letters, 2019 - Elsevier
Lithiation, sodiation, and potassiation usually induce volume expansion to the host structure
due to the insertion of alkali metal ions into the host structure. Here we report an unusual …

The Lightest 2D Nanomaterial: Freestanding Ultrathin Li Nanosheets by in-situ Electron Microscopy

M Sun, N Stolte, J Wang, J Wei, P Chen, Y Zhao… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Lithium (Li) is the simplest metal and the lightest solid element. Here we report the first
demonstration of controlled growth of two-dimensional (2D) ultrathin Li nanosheets with …