Technologies and perspectives for achieving carbon neutrality

F Wang, JD Harindintwali, Z Yuan, M Wang, F Wang… - The Innovation, 2021 - cell.com
Global development has been heavily reliant on the overexploitation of natural resources
since the Industrial Revolution. With the extensive use of fossil fuels, deforestation, and other …

Emerging chemistries and molecular designs for flow batteries

L Zhang, R Feng, W Wang, G Yu - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Redox flow batteries are a critical technology for large-scale energy storage, offering the
promising characteristics of high scalability, design flexibility and decoupled energy and …

A functionalized separator enables dendrite‐free Zn anode via metal‐polydopamine coordination chemistry

Y Liu, S Liu, X Xie, Z Li, P Wang, B Lu, S Liang… - InfoMat, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Designing a multifunctional separator with abundant ion migration paths is crucial for tuning
the ion transport in rocking‐chair‐type batteries. Herein, a polydopamine‐functionalized …

High-safety separators for lithium-ion batteries and sodium-ion batteries: advances and perspective

L Zhang, X Li, M Yang, W Chen - Energy Storage Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Lithium-ion batteries and sodium-ion batteries have obtained great progress in recent
decades, and will make excellent contribution in portable electronics, electric vehicles and …

Development of flow battery technologies using the principles of sustainable chemistry

Z Zhao, X Liu, M Zhang, L Zhang, C Zhang… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Realizing decarbonization and sustainable energy supply by the integration of variable
renewable energies has become an important direction for energy development. Flow …

Recent progress and prospects of NASICON framework electrodes for Na-ion batteries

R Thirupathi, V Kumari, S Chakrabarty… - Progress in Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) have emerged as the most promising energy storage devices for
large-scale grid and electric vehicle applications. This is because of the natural abundance …

The coming of age of water channels for separation membranes: from biological to biomimetic to synthetic

YJ Lim, K Goh, R Wang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Water channels are one of the key pillars driving the development of next-generation
desalination and water treatment membranes. Over the past two decades, the rise of …

Strategies to anode protection in lithium metal battery: A review

J Li, Z Kong, X Liu, B Zheng, QH Fan, E Garratt… - InfoMat, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Lithium metal batteries (LMBs) are considered the most promising energy storage devices
for applications such as electrical vehicles owing to its tremendous theoretical capacity …

Thinking the future of membranes: Perspectives for advanced and new membrane materials and manufacturing processes

SP Nunes, PZ Culfaz-Emecen, GZ Ramon… - Journal of Membrane …, 2020 - Elsevier
The state-of-the-art of membrane technology is characterized by a number of mature
applications such as sterile filtration, hemodialysis, water purification and gas separation, as …

Biomass-based materials for green lithium secondary batteries

C Jin, J Nai, O Sheng, H Yuan, W Zhang… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The advances in process engineering, nanotechnology, and materials science gradually
enable the potential applications of biomass in novel energy storage technologies such as …