In situ polymerization process: an essential design tool for lithium polymer batteries

V Vijayakumar, B Anothumakkool, S Kurungot… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymer electrolytes (PEs), a type of solid-state electrolytes (SSEs), have been in contention
for nearly half a century to replace organic liquid electrolytes (LEs) that are used in state-of …

A review of tribological properties and deposition methods for selected hard protective coatings

MM Al-Asadi, HA Al-Tameemi - Tribology International, 2022 - Elsevier
Surface modification is widely adopted as a viable solution for surface damage under sliding
or impacting conditions. Various coatings can be manufactured using different techniques …

Kinematic self-replication in reconfigurable organisms

S Kriegman, D Blackiston, M Levin… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
All living systems perpetuate themselves via growth in or on the body, followed by splitting,
budding, or birth. We find that synthetic multicellular assemblies can also replicate …

A flexible aqueous zinc–iodine microbattery with unprecedented energy density

X Jin, L Song, C Dai, Y Xiao, Y Han, X Li… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Currently, reported aqueous microbatteries (MBs) only show unsatisfactory electrochemical
performance (≤ 120 mWh cm− 3 volumetric energy density and< 1000 μWh cm− 2 areal …

Advanced three-dimensional microelectrode architecture design for high-performance on-chip micro-supercapacitors

P Zhang, S Yang, H Xie, Y Li, F Wang, M Gao, K Guo… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The rapid development of miniaturized electronic devices has greatly stimulated the endless
pursuit of high-performance on-chip micro-supercapacitors (MSCs) delivering both high …

On‐chip batteries for dust‐sized computers

Y Li, M Zhu, VK Bandari… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in microelectronics have enabled the use of miniaturized computers for
autonomous intelligence at the size of a dust particle less than one square millimeter across …

Materials and structure engineering by magnetron sputtering for advanced lithium batteries

Y Ma, L Li, J Qian, W Qu, R Luo, F Wu, R Chen - Energy Storage Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
Lithium batteries are the most promising electrochemical energy storage devices while the
development of high-performance battery materials is becoming a bottleneck. It is necessary …

Characterizing batteries by in situ electrochemical atomic force microscopy: a critical review

Z Zhang, S Said, K Smith, R Jervis… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Although lithium, and other alkali ion, batteries are widely utilized and studied, many of the
chemical and mechanical processes that underpin the materials within, and drive their …

In situ and operando characterizations of 2D materials in electrochemical energy storage devices

C Meng, P Das, X Shi, Q Fu, K Müllen, ZS Wu - Small Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The urgent need of modern society for portable energy‐consuming devices has boosted the
development of high‐power supercapacitors and high‐energy batteries. Major prerequisites …

Synthesis of wafer‐scale graphene with chemical vapor deposition for electronic device applications

B Sun, J Pang, Q Cheng, S Zhang, Y Li… - Advanced Materials …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The first isolation of graphene opens the avenue for new platforms for physics, electronic
engineering, and materials sciences. Among several kinds of synthesis approaches …