Electrode material–ionic liquid coupling for electrochemical energy storage

X Wang, M Salari, D Jiang, J Chapman Varela… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The development of new electrolyte and electrode designs and compositions has led to
advances in electrochemical energy-storage (EES) devices over the past decade. However …

Microstructural and dynamical heterogeneities in ionic liquids

YL Wang, B Li, S Sarman, F Mocci, ZY Lu… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Ionic liquids (ILs) are a special category of molten salts solely composed of ions with varied
molecular symmetry and charge delocalization. The versatility in combining varied cation …

Horn-like pore entrance boosts charging dynamics and charge storage of nanoporous supercapacitors

T Mo, J Peng, W Dai, M Chen, V Presser, G Feng - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Optimizing the synergy between nanoporous carbons and ionic liquids can significantly
enhance the energy density of supercapacitors. The highest energy density has been …

Energy storage mechanism in supercapacitors with porous graphdiynes: Effects of pore topology and electrode metallicity

T Mo, Z Wang, L Zeng, M Chen… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Porous graphdiynes are a new class of porous 2D materials with tunable electronic
structures and various pore structures. They have potential applications as well‐defined …

Blessing and curse: How a supercapacitor's large capacitance causes its slow charging

C Lian, M Janssen, H Liu, R van Roij - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
The development of novel electrolytes and electrodes for supercapacitors is hindered by a
gap of several orders of magnitude between experimentally measured and theoretically …

Interfacial layering in the electric double layer of ionic liquids

JP de Souza, ZAH Goodwin, M McEldrew… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Ions in ionic liquids and concentrated electrolytes reside in a crowded, strongly interacting
environment, leading to the formation of discrete layers of charges at interfaces and spin …

Primitive model electrolytes in the near and far field: Decay lengths from DFT and simulations

P Cats, R Evans, A Härtel, R Van Roij - The Journal of chemical …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Inspired by recent experimental observations of anomalously large decay lengths in
concentrated electrolytes, we revisit the Restricted Primitive Model (RPM) for an aqueous …

Conductivity of concentrated electrolytes

Y Avni, RM Adar, D Andelman, H Orland - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
The conductivity of ionic solutions is arguably their most important trait, being widely used in
electrochemical, biochemical, and environmental applications. The Debye-Hückel-Onsager …

Anomalous underscreening in the restricted primitive model

A Härtel, M Bültmann, F Coupette - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Underscreening is a collective term for charge correlations in electrolytes decaying slower
than the Debye length. Anomalous underscreening refers to phenomenology that cannot be …

Theory of ion aggregation and gelation in super-concentrated electrolytes

M McEldrew, ZAH Goodwin, S Bi, MZ Bazant… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
In concentrated electrolytes with asymmetric or irregular ions, such as ionic liquids and
solvent-in-salt electrolytes, ion association is more complicated than simple ion-pairing …