Li–CO2 and Na–CO2 Batteries: Toward Greener and Sustainable Electrical Energy Storage

X Mu, H Pan, P He, H Zhou - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Metal–CO2 batteries, especially Li–CO2 and Na–CO2 batteries, offer a novel and attractive
strategy for CO2 capture as well as energy conversion and storage with high specific energy …

The lithium/air battery: still an emerging system or a practical reality?

L Grande, E Paillard, J Hassoun, JB Park… - Advanced …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Lithium/air is a fascinating energy storage system. The effective exploitation of air as a
battery electrode has been the long‐time dream of the battery community. Air is, in principle …

Molecular crowding electrolytes for high-voltage aqueous batteries

J Xie, Z Liang, YC Lu - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
Developing low-cost and eco-friendly aqueous electrolytes with a wide voltage window is
critical to achieve safe, high-energy and sustainable Li-ion batteries. Emerging approaches …

From lithium‐oxygen to lithium‐air batteries: challenges and opportunities

D Geng, N Ding, TSA Hor, SW Chien… - Advanced Energy …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Lithium‐air batteries have become a focus of research on future battery technologies.
Technical issues associated with lithium‐air batteries, however, are rather complex. Apart …

Using “tender” X-ray ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy as a direct probe of solid-liquid interface

S Axnanda, EJ Crumlin, B Mao, S Rani, R Chang… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
We report a new method to probe the solid-liquid interface through the use of a thin liquid
layer on a solid surface. An ambient pressure XPS (AP-XPS) endstation that is capable of …

Sodium‐oxygen batteries: a comparative review from chemical and electrochemical fundamentals to future perspective

H Yadegari, Q Sun, X Sun - Advanced materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Alkali metal‐oxygen (Li‐O2, Na‐O2) batteries have attracted a great deal of attention
recently due to their high theoretical energy densities, comparable to gasoline, making them …

Enabling high-energy-density aqueous batteries with hydrogen bond-anchored electrolytes

Y Wang, T Wang, D Dong, J Xie, Y Guan, Y Huang… - Matter, 2022 - cell.com
Conventional aqueous electrolytes suffer from a narrow voltage window due to water
decomposition. Highly concentrated electrolytes expand the voltage window; however, they …

In situ characterization of catalysis and electrocatalysis using APXPS

Y Han, H Zhang, Y Yu, Z Liu - ACS Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
Taking 50 years of effort, ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (APXPS) has
become a useful characterization tool for studies in heterogeneous catalysis and …

Exploring the electrochemical reaction mechanism of carbonate oxidation in Li–air/CO 2 battery through tracing missing oxygen

S Yang, P He, H Zhou - Energy & Environmental Science, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
As energy storage systems with great prospects, both Li–air and Li–CO2 batteries possess
low energy efficiency and poor cycle performance, which is caused by the accumulation of …

Intrinsic Barrier to Electrochemically Decompose Li2CO3 and LiOH

C Ling, R Zhang, K Takechi… - The Journal of Physical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
It is widely acknowledged that Li2CO3 and LiOH as side-products in the operation of a Li–air
cell should be completely removed in the cycling to avoid cumulative negative effect on the …